Education

Bad leadership habits are the reason that politically motivated policies and initiatives keep pounding schools but never effect real change. As top education officials in Kentucky and Vermont, we began exploring new ways to shape schools with families and communities.

Community colleges are often left to serve the students who need the most support – but critics contend that this has become an excuse.

The Build Back Better bill has stalled. On one point, we agree with Senator Joe Manchin that it is time for Congress to start with a “clean sheet of paper” by evaluating…

In many classrooms, students demonstrate an enviable tech savviness as they easily navigate new applications with grace and little fear. Need your …

Making classrooms feel inclusive can help promote STEM education and make students feel capable of working on STEM subjects outside of the classroom, a new study shows. “We found that…

Over the last two decades, MDRC has conducted rigorous research in more than 1,000 early education classrooms. The evidence suggests three important investments that states, districts, and programs can make to support…

“Sounds like you’re a really good older brother.” Logan Shideler said that to a 14-year-old boy who had called California Youth Crisis Line because he …

In honor of Women’s History Month, Christy Pierce shares how high schools can put programs in place with young women in mind.

Arts education belongs in every student’s curriculum — and not just because the arts can improve skills in other content areas.As an instrumental music …

Students are grouped in small cohorts (or essentially small communities), each with a bonding name like Unity or Liberty. Cohorts collaborate to tackle problems, support each other, and collaborate on…

New research confirms that preschoolers don’t get as much exercise outside when it’s very hot out.

Nearly 700 colleges and universities over the last decade have raised the net prices paid by their lowest-income students more than the net prices paid by their highest-income ones, new data shows.