Resources from the Field
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Five lessons Overdeck Family Foundation's Early Impact portfolio learned from funding cross-grantee collaboration projects.
Seven lessons the Overdeck Family Foundation has learned from funding the Strategic Data Project, which places data professionals into nonprofit or government organizations.
The 30th edition of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s KIDS COUNT® Data Book begins by exploring how America’s child population — and the American childhood experience — has changed since 1990.
America’s unmet need for top talent in information technology (IT) and computer science (CS) is a longstanding problem. However, this new report from the IT + CS Business Advisory Council identifies what businesses, education leaders and policymakers can do to address this skills gap.
In this report, the authors describe how arts learning experiences have the potential to promote the development of social-emotional competencies and suggest that these developmental processes can be replicable across subject areas.
The authors analyze changes in financial aid and student enrollment at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) that occurred after the U.S. Department of Education increased the credit history requirements necessary to obtain Parent Loans for Undergraduate Students (PLUS).
This report, reviewing research about summer programming for children and teens, finds 43 programs that pass the evidence test for ESSA research categorization.
Despite strong evidence that high-quality early education programs can have a powerful impact on children’s future success in school, college, and the workforce, California voters rank new investments in prenatal and early childhood services below other educational priorities.
How much does money really matter in the quest for educational quality? And if it matters so much, as supporters of higher spending argue, why do taxpayers and the public seem to flinch when they’re confronted with the tab?
This report examines what would happen if America’s top 200 colleges only admitted students with the highest SAT scores. The report finds that such an admissions policy would replace 53% of incoming students, creating a less racially diverse and slightly more affluent student body.