This year’s NAEP results show devastating setbacks in learning for all students and a deepening of gaps for our most vulnerable. These results are a call for bold action, building on what works and innovating to support learning and well-being for every student. This is urgent for all students, especially older students who are running […]
Organization: Thomas B. Fordham Institute
For-Profit Charter Schools: An Evaluation of Their Spending and Outcomes
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How Attaining Industry-Recognized Credentials in High School Shapes Education and Employment Outcomes
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2022 Eddies Awards: Most Actionable Research
The Eddies—annual, advocate-nominated and voted awards—feature outstanding policy and advocacy wins from the past year. This Eddies category spotlights resources or tools that shed new light on pressing and widespread problems or solutions and that state and local advocates across the Network leveraged to make a compelling case for policy change and achieve breakthroughs. See a complete list of […]
Imperfect Attendance: Toward a Fairer Measure of Student Absenteeism
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Still Rising: Charter School Enrollment and Student Achievement at the Metropolitan Level
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Seeding Success: Expanding High-Quality Charters
As the critical challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic persist, public charter school enrollment continues to grow in states across the country. In this discussion, David Griffith (The Thomas B. Fordham Institute) will share data and analysis on the benefits that charter schools bring to increasing equitable learning outcomes across metropolitan areas, and Todd Zeibarth (NAPCS) […]
Thomas B. Fordham Institute
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Strategies for Accelerating Student Learning
A recent study estimated that by June 2021, students will have, on average, five to nine months of unfinished learning as a result of the disruption and school building closures from COVID-19. In addition to schools’ core programs, leaders continue to grapple with how to best support students’ mental health while also accelerating their learning […]
Recovery to Reinvention Series: High-Impact Tutoring
This continues the Walton Family Foundation-sponsored series, designed in partnership with PIE Network and Bellwether Education Partners. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, families and educators are eager to accelerate learning and provide students with the targeted support they need. Research shows that high-impact tutoring is among the most effective ways to do so. […]