June 16, 1976 thousands of high school students in South Africa’s SOWETO township called a strike over the restive education policies of the apartheid regime. As they marched unto an open field adjace...

DC's public school system needs changes to governance, accountability, and community participation.

New Hampshire: Change in Spending Alongside Reading & Math Outcomes Edunomics Lab analyzed ROI data from 2013-2024 (NAEP 4th grade reading and 8th grade math scores alongside per-pupil spending) to se...

English language learners are rarely the starting point of policy design.

A collection of sophisticated school finance measures that can be used to assess the adequacy and fairness of state and district revenue, spending, and resource allocation, and to compare these measur...

This moment demands courage, clarity, and collective power.

This moment demands courage, clarity, and collective power.

Join us on April 20 at 10 am EDT for this important conversation.

The latest installment of an annual school finance report finds that states continue to devote a smaller share of their gross domestic products to K-12 education than they did during the Great Recessi...

Literacy legislation should consider the experience educators and students.

An evaluation of the K-12 school finance systems of all 50 states and D.C.

Part I of “What Bayard Rustin Would Do” describes the context of Rustin’s work up to 1965.

School cell phone policy must reflect the research and views of stakeholders.

School cell phone policy must reflect the research and views of stakeholders.

Our priors affect how we understand literacy mandates and that is ok. We can still find common ground.

Our priors affect how we understand literacy mandates and that is ok. We can still find common ground.

The gap between higher- and lower-spending education states is growing.

Arizona State professor Sherman Dorn recommends viewing the current crisis as the basis for asking important "what if?" questions about public schooling in the U.S.

Teachers deserve concrete, practical, and teacher-led PD.

PD should be lead by teachers.

With contracts severed and grants rescinded, experts say Washington’s hit to K–12 research will set back the field for years.

Colorín Colorado, an online resource hub, to provide educators of English language learners (ELLs) with evidence-based resources, best practices, and information.

Many are concerned about the large decline in K-12 student achievement since 2019. And rightly so, given what it signals about student learning and later life outcomes. Less noted is the pre-pandemic ...

States face uncertainty as $4.8 billion in K–12 federal funding remains unreleased. If the U.S. Department of Education doesn’t distribute these funds by July 1, state educational agencies will need p...

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Trump administration lawyers admit some DOGE cuts violated congressional statutes

Florida ranks among the lowest in education spending. This year that won’t change

Abstract. In the past five years, teacher evaluation has become a preferred policy lever at the federal, state, and local levels. Revisions to teacher evaluation systems have made teachers individuall...

Thoughtful critique of reading laws needs to be rigorous and fair.

A simulation of the impact of eliminating federal aid to schools suggests no student would be left unharmed.

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Drawing on Boddie’s adaptive discrimination framework, this article analyzes changes in demographic trends from 2002–2021. Our findings reveal a continuation of...

As face-to-face connection makes a steady return, neighborhoods reimagine how people gather and build community. In 2025, DIY third places are gaining traction in neighborhoods across the country, red...