Now three years since COVID’s first classroom closures and a year before districts start to feel the true impact of the fiscal cliff, 2023 marked a pivotal moment for students and schools across America. Fresh scores revealed the stalled state of learning recovery. Educators warned about an escalating chronic absenteeism crisis that has seen students […]
Largely constrained from enacting its national K–12 agenda, the Biden administration nevertheless made waves in the education world last Friday by appointing economist Kirabo Jackson to a seat on its Council of Economic Advisers. Jackson, a labor economist and professor at Northwestern University, is far from a household name, but his work has made a […]
A recent study out of the University of Chicago showed high schools that prioritized social- emotional development had double the positive long-term impact on students as compared to those that focused solely on improving test scores. As part of their work, researchers determined school’s effectiveness based upon its impact on students’ social-emotional development, test scores […]
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