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Stabilizing Education Opportunity for Students in Foster Care

Maintaining stability is key to improving student access to quality educational opportunities, especially for students farthest from opportunity. But for the 300,000 children and youth in foster care in the United States each year, stability can be hard to […]

K-12

How the Federal Tax Credit Scholarship Program May Affect States

The passage of the H.R. 1, called One Big Beautiful Bill Act, by Congress in July 2025 included the first federal school choice program known as the Federal Tax Credit Scholarship Program. This legislation allows governors or a designated state official to opt in to a federally […]

K-12

Two Very Different States, One Shared Strategy: Community Schools Are Helping Students Succeed in California and Kentucky

At first glance, California and Kentucky might seem worlds apart. One is among the nation’s most populous states, anchored by some of the largest urban centers in the country. The […]

High School K-12

Cell Phone Restrictions in Schools and Student Wellbeing

Mental health is complex, and, by various metrics, kids have not been alright. Some factors of youth mental health declines cited by policymakers are screen time, cell phone use and […]

Early Education (P-3)High School K-12

A Framework for State Leaders to Advance Summer Learning

2021 was a turning point for summer learning in this country. Catalyzed by pandemic-related interrupted instruction, a broad movement to return to in-person learning and $1.2 billion in ESSER funds […]

K-12

Indigenous Students Count: Challenges and Promising Practices

A recent report from the Indigenous Student Identification Project (ISI) found that K-12 Indigenous students may be undercounted by as much as 70% across the United States. This has […]

Early Education (P-3)

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How Can State Policymakers Foster Integrated Early Learning Environments?

Integrated learning environments can lead to academic and social benefits for children, however, most early care and education (ECE) programs are largely segregated as a function of both neighborhood segregation […]

High School Postsecondary Workforce

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Normalizing Opportunity: Barriers and Supports for Successful Reentry From Incarceration 

As someone who works closely with people reentering society, and as someone who is looking ahead to his own approaching release from incarceration, I’ve seen firsthand the need to ensure […]

K-12

How Can States Support Immigrant Students’ Education?

Conversations about immigrant and refugee students often obscure the fact that federal laws — bolstered by court decisions throughout the past few decades — provide newcomer students with the right […]

K-12

North Carolina's Promising Approach to Learning Recovery

As the education landscape continues to be impacted by school closures, quarantines and staffing uncertainties resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, states have been working hard to reduce the long-term effects […]

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Policy Levers to Advance Credential Transparency

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Policy Levers to Advance Credential Transparency

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Ed Note Blog Posts

Stabilizing Education Opportunity for Students in Foster Care

How the Federal Tax Credit Scholarship Program May Affect States

Two Very Different States, One Shared Strategy: Community Schools Are Helping Students Succeed in California and Kentucky

Cell Phone Restrictions in Schools and Student Wellbeing

A Framework for State Leaders to Advance Summer Learning

Indigenous Students Count: Challenges and Promising Practices

How Can State Policymakers Foster Integrated Early Learning Environments?

Normalizing Opportunity: Barriers and Supports for Successful Reentry From Incarceration

How Can States Support Immigrant Students’ Education?

North Carolina's Promising Approach to Learning Recovery

Policy Levers to Advance Credential Transparency

Policy Levers to Advance Credential Transparency

Policy Levers to Advance Credential Transparency