New Bill Seeks to Improve Infant and Toddler Child Care
Infant and toddler child care, for children ages birth to 3, is an especially important--and often neglected--part of the care continuum.
PreK–12 Education
The Little-Known Bill With a Big Impact on Education Research
Reauthorization for the Education Sciences Reform Act has captured the attention of certain circles. In case you're not in those circles, he
A New Model for Family Involvement?
California's controversial Parent Trigger law is one indirect attempt to increase family involvement by giving families more power.
A Simple Policy Change to Help More Hungry Kids Eat? Where Do We Sign Up?
Debt collectors going after parents for lunch money? First graders going without food? This is a mess.
New Research: Montessori Pre-K Works for Latino Students
There’s a common assumption lurking in discussions about education reform: Instruction in basic skills is somehow in tension with enrichment
The Case for Giving Money to Poor Parents
Given the politics of anti-poverty programs, you already know what you think of that idea by the time you’ve reached this sentence.
Evaluating the Design of Quality Rating and Improvement Systems
The question remains whether existing indicators, like ECERS-R scores, are even the most reliable measure of program quality.
Taking Education Reform From Launch to Stable Orbit
Even the biggest, most comprehensive reforms have mostly ended up as tinkering around the edges.
Can More Federal Flexibility Improve States’ Teacher Evaluation Systems?
Another day, another U.S. Department of Education announcement updating how states can maintain their waiver from the outdated NCLB.
What Sort of School Choice Market Do We Want?
American education arguments are frequently fought on grounds that have little to do with substance, and a lot to do with ideology.
#thankateacher: Why We Do What We Do
Happy National Teacher Appreciation Week! All of us at New America have been touched by amazing educators who inspired us.
Dear Indiana, Love Arne: Is Waiver Oversight at a Turning Point?
Now that the Hoosier state has dumped both Common Core and PARCC, is Indiana's NCLB waiver really at risk?
Obama Administration Revisits Efforts to Improve Teacher Preparation
New Report on Students’ Perceptions of American Teachers
The respondents ranked education the top profession for “average” people.
We Can Scale High-Quality Public Pre-K—Can We Scale Effective Legislating?
States—and cities—are taking pre-K policy seriously.