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Member Insights: Infusing Playful Learning into Everyday Places

Most kids spend just 20% of their waking hours in the classroom. How can communities harness some of the remaining 80% for meaningful and joyful opportunities to learn?

Grantmakers for Education

Brown at 70: Reflections and the Road Forward

Spencer Foundation and partners

Measurement For Mobility: How States Can Use Data to Incentivize Postsecondary and Workforce Success in Public Education

Education Strategy Group and American Student Assistance

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November 2023

School Medicaid Expansion: How (and How Many) States Have Taken Action to Increase School Health Access and Funding

With new guidance and encouragement from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ policy, states can allow school districts to bill Medicaid for all health services provided to all Medicaid-enrolled students.

Healthy Schools Campaign
October 2023

Advancing ECE Workforce and Compensation Equity

The Early Educator Investment Collaborative commissioned a study to assess the viability of a national, competency-based certification for lead teachers (NLTC) in the US and found that the demand is there but compensation and equity must be addressed first. Read more about the path to certification.

Early Educator Investment Collaborative
October 2023

Lasting Change: A Policy Playbook for Improving State K-12 Finance Systems

State education finance systems play a crucial role in providing the resources that schools and districts need to ensure student success. But modernizing these systems to reflect changing needs is often cumbersome and complicated.

Bellwether
October 2023

Education and Workforce Data Legislation Review 2023

Each year, Data Quality Campaign tracks state legislation that governs the collection and use of education and workforce data. Since 2014, we have reviewed data legislation in all 50 states and the District of Columbia to highlight key themes, promising trends, and next steps for policymakers.

Data Quality Campaign
October 2023

Setting the Stage: Practical Ideas for Implementing High-Quality Afterschool Arts Programs

From 2019 through 2021, five Boys & Girls Club organizations, with startup resources from The Wallace Foundation, set out to test whether they could develop YAI within the resource constraints of multipurpose OST programs. This report shares early lessons learned by these five OST organizations which were documented by a two-and-a-half-year study.

The Wallace Foundation
October 2023

Beyond the Horizon: Blazing a Trail Toward Learner-Centered School Quality Systems

In our new publication, we share recommendations to move from our current systems of assessment and accountability toward equitable, leaner-centered school quality systems. These recommendations were co-created with students, caregivers and educators as well as district, state and national leaders.

KnowledgeWorks

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