School Discipline and the School-to-Prison Pipeline: What Research Shows
Exclusionary discipline practices disproportionately affect students of color and students with disabilities. Evidence points toward more effective and equitable alternatives.
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Rethinking Assessment: Moving Beyond the MultipleChoice Test
Assessment should illuminate what students understand and can do. Most conventional testing does neither, and we have better tools available.
The Case for Interdisciplinary Degrees
Singlediscipline education optimizes for depth. But the most consequential problems, in health, policy, technology, and society, demand people who can think across boundaries.
Early Literacy: What Research Shows About How Children Learn to Read
Reading is the gateway skill for virtually all academic learning. Research on how children develop literacy and what instruction works best is unusually clear by educational research standards.
Digital Literacy as Core Curriculum: The Case for Teaching How to Think Online
Navigating information environments is now a foundational skill. Education systems that treat digital literacy as supplemental are leaving students unprepared for the information landscape they inhabit.
What Mastery Based Progression Gets Right , and Where It Struggles
Mastery based learning holds that students advance when they demonstrate competency, not when the calendar says so. The idea is compelling; the implementation is complicated.
Community Schools: When Education Addresses the Whole Child
Community schools integrate health, social services, and family engagement into the school building itself, addressing barriers to learning that classroom instruction alone cannot reach.
FirstGeneration College Students and the Access Gap
Being the first in your family to attend college is not just a logistical challenge. It is a cultural one, and institutions that ignore the cultural dimension fail the students who most need support.
School Leadership and Principal Effectiveness: What Research Shows About Impact
Principals are the second most important in-school influence on student achievement after teachers. Research on what makes school leaders effective has grown significantly.
Youth Mental Health: Understanding the Adolescent Crisis
Rates of depression, anxiety, and suicidality among adolescents have risen substantially over the past decade. The causes are multiple and the responses must be too.