This summary includes arts education policies for all 50 states, plus the District of Columbia. Complete results from this review are available in an online searchable database on the Arts Education Partnership website .
Renaissance Learning's has released , the world's largest annual survey of K–12 student reading habits! For more than a decade, What Kids Are Reading has provided educators, families, and communities unparalleled insights into students' reading habits. Based on the reading records of more than 7.6 million students—who read more than 271 million books during the last school year—the new 2020 repo
are partnerships among community members and researchers, sometimes joined by educational institutions. These partners work together to advance equity and justice by jointly creating new knowledge, policies, and practices that promote change in educational systems and society. Community Research Collaboratives , a policy memo released today by the National Education Policy Center, describes this
Today, the National Center for Education Statistics released a new Data Point, Expulsion from School as a Disciplinary Action . This report examines the percentage of U.S. public elementary and secondary schools allowed to remove students from school for at least the remainder of the school year, commonly known as expulsion, as a disciplinary action and the percentage of schools that used this ac
New research finds that as education policy has shifted, post-No Child Left Behind and as a result of Race to the Top (RTTT), the rollout of statewide teacher evaluation systems have proven to phase out lower performing teachers and retain more effective teachers for longer periods of time - particularly in urban districts and low-performing schools. "While we found that the rollout of a statewid
Educators in Tennessee use Response to Instruction and Intervention (RTI2), a multi-tiered system of support (MTSS), to help address problems early for students at risk for poor learning outcomes. Tennessee Department of Education officials sought to support schools and districts implementing RTI2 with a tool that educators can use to align their RTI2 implementation with the state’s expected prac
This paper forecasts the life-cycle treatment effects on health of a high-quality early childhood program. Our predictions combine microsimulation using non-experimental data with experimental data from a midlife long-term follow-up. The follow-up incorporated a full epidemiological exam. The program mainly benefits males and significantly reduces the prevalence of heart disease, stroke, cancer,
Colleges and universities around the country have been reforming their mathematics requirements, rejecting the traditional one-size-fits-all mathematics courses in favor of a range of options that align with students’
