Confronting Harmful Federal Disability Policy in Health and Human Services
New America’s second Advancing Disability Access Forum examined how recent changes at HHS threaten the health and wellbeing of disabled people, older adults, and children.
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Building a Career Advising Ecosystem: How States Are Redefining Roles for Student Success
Federal Early Education Update: March 2026
Remaking Our Districts: Three Communities on the Edge of America’s School Funding Divide
Lab Director and Senior Fellow Amy J. Nelson Quoted by Slate
College Finance Data Can Help Regulators Protect Students
New America explores Edmit data on financial viability and assesses how regulators can use the information to increase oversight.
We Have a Discipline Problem in Early Ed. What Are We Doing to Help Educators Fix It?
Part of the reason that young children are removed from the classroom is because educators don’t have the knowledge or supports they need.
New Administration Revives Opportunity to Leverage Strength-Based Approaches for English Learners
Our education system does not capitalize on English learners’ multilingual and multicultural assets, a new administration can change that.
The Online Learning Equity Gap: Takeaways from New OTI Report
A new report from New America’s Open Technology Institute details promising solutions for addressing the digital divide during COVID-19.
Challenges & Opportunities to Improving Youth Apprenticeship Data Quality: Reflections from the PAYA Data Work Group
Five Policies the Biden-Harris Administration Must Tackle to Protect College Students
With the nation deep in a pandemic that has forced an economic recession, the newly elected Biden-Harris Administration has much work ahead
School Discipline in the Age of COVID-19
Teachers are being forced to adapt their typical classroom management strategies for a virtual classroom setting they never anticipated