Resources from the Field
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This report from Aspen Institute Commission on Social, Emotional and Academic Development provides strong evidence for support of social and emotional learning as a necessary and important part of academic development.
Forty-eight states and Washington, D.C. have committed to measuring and reporting on individual student growth under ESSA. This means everyone in those states – from parents to policymakers – will have more information than before on student performance and school quality.
The National College Access Network's State Policy Toolkit is designed to help NCAN members and partners grow and strengthen their state-level advocacy work.
This policy snapshot briefly examines open enrollment (a form of school choice), reviews which states enacted bills related to open enrollment from 2014 to 2018 and includes examples of recently enacted legislation.
This report strives to better understand the trend of community college students transferring to selective four-year institutions, and to study their persistence post-transfer.
This study looks at 10 years of data from teachers in the nation's second-largest school district and finds that newer teachers are often challenged with tougher situations and less support.
Research on early learning programs in the 1960s and 1970s revealed longlasting benefits, sparking investment in preschool programs. However, recent evaluations of two large preschool programs found mixed results, creating confusion about whether preschool programs can support student success.
What creates success in partnerships between funders, intermediaries and evaluators?
In this resource, ECS compiled state-level and postsecondary institution developmental education assessment and placement policies. These policies are used to determine learners' college readiness and course placement.
"In this essay, Betheny Gross argues that while the current emphasis on wraparound services has helped meet some of the many needs today’s students face, a more organic, crowdsourced approach to engaging the community could ultimately result in more agile and responsive opportunities for students."