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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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May 2022

Toward a More Equitable Tomorrow: A Landscape Analysis of Early Childhood Leadership

By investing in the people who will lead the way, we can catalyze economic prosperity, foster an ecosystem marked by radical collaboration, and create a nation that centers children and their families over the next decade. This report shares findings from our landscape assessment and offers insights for integrating these findings into a cross-sector child and family agenda for 2030.

Aspen Institute
May 2022

Measuring the Quality of Early Learning Environments: A guide to evaluating ideal learning environments for young children

This resource is a guide to evaluating ideal learning environments for young children that envisions a new, equity-driven approach for assessing the quality of programs, and demonstrates how the Principles of Ideal Learning framework (ideallearning.org) can be used to guide decision-making.

Trust for Learning
May 2022

A New Role for Higher Education: An Actionable Framework to Drive Regional Ecosystem Alignment

After 10 months of work with 11 higher education leaders across the country, the Education Design Lab offers higher education and ecosystem leaders a framework and resources to start aligning regional stakeholders and partners towards building a truly equitable future.

Education Design Lab
May 2022

50-State Comparison: Statewide Admissions Policies

What states or systems have adopted common admissions policies applicable to first-time, first-year students seeking admission at a four-year, baccalaureate institution?

Education Commission of the States
May 2022

Addressing Teacher Shortages in the Short- and Long-Term: What States and Districts Can Do

This resource provides state and district leaders with insight into strategies to support teachers and address educator shortages. Teacher shortages are not a new phenomenon, but the pandemic has exacerbated staffing shortages. 

The Education Trust
May 2022

What Are P–20W Data Systems?

By connecting data over time and across sectors, P–20W data systems help individuals make decisions and support policymakers in driving systemic improvements. This fact sheet covers the basics of P–20W data systems, including why they matter and why policymakers should continue to invest in their development.

Data Quality Campaign

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