The annual Eddies Awards are an opportunity to amplify, celebrate, and learn from advocacy campaigns and leaders driving impactful policy change for every student in every community. The Eddies help show progress for students and the power of advocacy—a message that feels more important than ever. Each year, a committee of Network leaders shares feedback […]
Policy Pillar: High Expectations
Embargoed Education Scorecard Briefing: Districts Outpacing Their Peers
Audience: Staff at PIE Network member organizations Join this early briefing on new data from the Education Scorecard, scheduled for release on May 13. Five years after the pandemic disrupted schooling for millions of students, this year’s analysis shifts from a framework anchored in learning loss to a more forward-looking approach focused on growth, high […]
Building Systems That Fit Every Learner
Audience: Staff at PIE Network member organizations Conventional one-size-fits-all educational systems leave many young people with learning differences unserved or underserved. Student supports often appear as “add-ons” to existing systems rather than as fundamental redesigns of education to meet students’ diverse learning needs. Education Reimagined’s brief, Navigating Policies and Conditions: Supporting Youth with Learning Differences […]
Messaging That Works: Math & Literacy in Action
Audience: Staff at PIE Network member organizations Improving student outcomes in literacy and math are two of advocates’ top policy and implementation priorities in 2026. To support this work,, members of the PIE Network Literacy Community of Practice and Math Multipliers created the new Literacy Message Guide and Math Message Guide. These guides share communication […]
Math Multipliers Series: Why Algebra I Matters—and How Policy Can Help More Students Succeed
Audience: Staff at PIE Network member organizations Algebra is a critical inflection point for students along their math journey. Students who pass Algebra I by ninth grade are more likely to graduate high school, attend college, and earn higher salaries upon entering the workforce. In their report “Unlocking Algebra”, TNTP and New Classrooms examine the […]
2026 PIE Network Executives’ Meeting
Join Network leaders at the 2026 Executives’ Meeting, the only in-person meeting that we host just for PIE Network Executive Directors each year. This meeting is a time to connect, reflect, and strategize with peers from across the Network. This experience includes networking time, special guest speakers, and conversations focused on surfacing opportunities and challenges unfolding in […]
November Research Working Group Bimonthly Meeting
Audience: Researchers and staff at PIE Network member organizations This meeting will focus on state-level accountability systems, as many states have published new report card data over the past few weeks. The group will be joined by Clare Halloran (Education Data Center), who will share about Education Data Center’s work, including the State Assessment Data Repository, the most […]
New Polling: Primary Voters’ Opinions on Key Education Issues
In late summer 2025, PIE Network worked with bipartisan pollsters, Up One Insights and Impact Research, to survey voters about their opinions on key education issues. Given the growing evidence that general elections are less competitive, this survey oversampled primary voters to gain a clearer understanding of voters’ views. The findings illuminate broad cross-partisan support […]
2025 Eddies Awards: Game Changer Campaign of the Year
The Eddies—annual, advocate-nominated and voted awards—feature strategic advocacy that is driving impactful policy change. This Eddies category recognizes local, state, or national advocacy campaigns that tackled a big problem and achieved a new, game-changing policy. Sometimes a policy window opens quickly, and advocates move fast; sometimes, the window opens after years of sustained advocacy efforts. Either way, nominees in […]
2025 Eddies Awards: Peter Tang Most Actionable Tools & Research
The Eddies—annual, advocate-nominated and voted awards—feature strategic advocacy that is driving impactful policy change. 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 2025 […]