Many districts conduct reviews to streamline their lineups of required assessments, but they resist eliminating tests. What’s behind that resistance?

A list of the current Requests for Proposals (RFPs) from Arnold Ventures’ Evidence & Evaluation team.

My research team from the Understanding America Study at the University of Southern California recently asked parents of school-aged children to upload a snapshot of their kids’ school attendance record from last year as part of a broader survey. The study failed — during the pilot phase, only 17% successfully completed the task. We pulled...

A list of the current Requests for Proposals (RFPs) from Arnold Ventures’ Evidence & Evaluation team.

With student achievement still below pre-pandemic levels and states poised to remake key education policies, Arnold Ventures is launching a new request…

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OPINION: The most intriguing thing about the race between Scott Wiener and Connie Chan to fill Nancy Pelosi’s House seat is that it has become a race at all, the editorial board writes.

Last year, a slim majority thought schools that integrated AI would be better for students. Now a majority say schools that ban AI are better, according to the NBC News Decision Desk Poll.

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The contractor of the LAX Automated People Mover, LINXS, believes the train could open in early January.

A cross-sector network of researchers and evaluators strengthening how education evidence is generated, interpreted, and used.

Morgan Polikoff

This paper evaluates the impacts of Michigan's statewide early literacy reform using a synthetic difference-in-differences approach. We estimate the policy’s effects on student achievement and grade r...

Grade retention policies create incentives for students to make adequate progress ahead of evaluation. The threat of retention thus has the potential to affect all students’ academic outcomes, increas...

Former State Board of Education President Michael Kirst argues that California's recent passage of AB 181 offers a chance to fix long-standing governance issues by balancing reduced administrative reg...

Aspiring teachers of color often hit a wall before making it to the classroom, a new study finds.

Not every school with unfavorable demographics is a dysfunctional mess — policy matters!

WASHINGTON, D.C. (September 16, 2026) – Education policy expert Morgan Polikoff has joined Arnold Ventures as a K-12 Research and Policy Fellow for the…