The Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts, designed to revitalize the role of literature in American culture and to encourage citizens to read ...
When a community or school faces an emergency -- whether it's a natural disaster like a hurricane or earthquake, or a tragedy like a suicide, violence or fire -- ...
School reform continues to focus primarily on two arenas: improving curriculum and instruction and rethinking the way our schools are governed and managed. We have ...
Around the country, efforts to improve college completion rates tend to combine college-level innovation with supports and incentives at the state level to accelerate ...
The initial difference between state education rankings and the average per-pupil spending is clear and rather obvious: States that spend more on their students tend ...
Provide a start of developing critical job skills. It's a workbook designed for use by educators and students to help in preparation for success in post-college ...
The year 2011 was no ordinary year for teacher policy. In fact, it was a year like no other chronicled by the National Council on Teacher Quality’s (NCTQ) ...
During this September 10 webinar, Alliance President Bob Wise talked with authors Ken Kay and Valerie Greenhill, both of EdLeader21, on their recently published book, ...
This report by Young Invincibles and NERA Economic Consulting details the results from a survey of nearly 13,000 college students and recent graduates with high ...
America earned a lackluster C- grade on child well-being, according to a national report card released today by First Focus and Save the Children. Artist Ambassador ...
A Problem Still in Search of a Solution: A State Policy Roadmap for Improving Early Reading Proficiency provides a framework to help state leaders and ...
The Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN) today released The 2011 National School Climate Survey, the only national study that for over a ...
After months of weakness in the job market, unemployment fell to 7.8 percent in September 2012—the lowest rate since 2009. In a new Hamilton Project employment ...
This issue brief, produced by the New America Foundation's Early Education Initiative, addresses the dearth of reliable, complete, and comparable data on pre-K ...