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Our blog features education research and policy trends, promising practices from states and partners, and anecdotes from our work with state leaders across the country.

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Postsecondary

Oct. 20, 2016

Data Systems and Informed Education Policy

On Nov. 16, 2016, revisions to the key takeaways of this 50-State Comparison (and blog) were made. The importance of data in informing education policy has grown over time, especially […]

Early Education (P-3)

Oct. 19, 2016

A Rocky Beginning: Suspensions and expulsions in the early years

Increased suspensions and expulsions in the early childhood space, particularly of minority students, have pushed states, districts and schools to reevaluate discipline policies. After an era of several zero-tolerance discipline […]

Oct. 17, 2016

School Leadership Matters: Illinois leading reforms in principal preparation

This is a guest blog post by James Applegate, Executive Director, Illinois Board of Higher Education and Janet Holt, Executive Director, Illinois Education Research Council. Since the 2005 Levine report that […]

K-12

Oct. 12, 2016

New Resources Available: Mapping opportunities for the arts in ESSA

By now the education community is well aware of the passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). From the moment that ESSA was signed into law, folks across the […]

Oct. 5, 2016

Why Don’t We Just Smoke, Drink and Gamble our Way to a Better Public Education System?

In meeting-after-meeting in state-after-state I’ve been asked the same question, “Isn’t there some new way that we can fund public education?" People wonder why we stick with the current system that […]

K-12

Sept. 30, 2016

What We Didn’t Say in the STEM Playbook

This is a guest blog post by Tamara L. Goetz, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Utah STEM Action Center. Everyone loves to tell a good story; and for good reason! It […]

K-12

Sept. 29, 2016

NAF’s Commitment to Be STEM Ready

This is a guest blog post by NAF, a national network of education, business and community leaders who work together to ensure high school students are college, career and future ready. […]

K-12

Sept. 23, 2016

Does Computer Science in High School Face a Bright Future?

This is a guest blog post by Claus Von Zastrow, the chief operating officer and director of research for Change the Equation. If, like me, you worry that American students don’t get […]

K-12

Sept. 16, 2016

Doctoring New STEM Teachers

This blog post is a guest post by Jeff Weld, Ph.D., Executive Director, Iowa Governor’s STEM Advisory Council The parallel evolution of physician training and STEM teacher training is a […]

Postsecondary

Sept. 13, 2016

Federal Communications Commission Loses in Court, States have the Ability to Limit Municipal Broadband

A Federal Appels Court recently blocked efforts to expand public broadband. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals filed a ruling on Aug. 10, 2016, reversing the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) […]

K-12

Sept. 9, 2016

Defining STEM – Critical, but Not As Easy As You Might Think

This is a guest blog post by Angela Hemingway, Executive Director, Idaho STEM Action Center As the term STEM has become more widely used, people can recite the words associated […]

K-12

Sept. 7, 2016

2016 Legislative Round-up: Improving school health environments

So far in 2016, close to 1,000 K-12 education bills have been signed into law. While the heavy hitters such as accountability, assessments and charter schools continued to receive attention, […]