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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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April 2022

Promoting Healthy Futures: Afterschool Provides the Supports Parents Want for Children's Well-Being

The Afterschool Alliance's 4th edition of America After 3PM provides a detailed account of children in the afterschool hours, identifying: trends of participation in, and unmet demand for, afterschool programs; the experiences and opportunities programs afford; and which children and families are missing out, and why.

Afterschool Alliance
April 2022

State of American Philanthropy: Giving for Early Childhood

This background paper covers important topics and trends in U.S. giving to early childhood education. It draws on past research and reporting by IP writers, as well as new interviews, grantmaking data, and other sources including Grantmakers for Education.

Inside Philanthropy
April 2022

Latino College Enrollment: Past, Current, and Projections

Latino student college enrollment had been growing at an accelerated pace for more than 20 years, but in 2020 dropped significantly despite previous projections of continued growth. In this fact sheet, we provide a summary of past, current, and projected Latino student enrollment that can help institutions identify and understand patterns to improve their efforts to more intentionally serve their Latino students.

Excelencia in Education
April 2022

Elevating School Leadership in State Policy

The Policy Brief examines recent state actions to support school leaders, including legislative examples from 13 states. To address the changing roles of school leaders, states are enacting legislation to strengthen the candidate pipeline and ensure school leaders are represented in the policymaking process.

Education Commission of the States
April 2022

Understanding Teacher Compensation: A State-by-State Analysis

Offering competitive teacher compensation is an important part of the puzzle to recruiting and retaining a strong and diverse teacher workforce. This brief provides a state-by-state analysis of three public school teacher wage indicators.

Learning Policy Institute
April 2022

Imperfect Attendance: Toward a fairer measure of student absenteeism

The need to understand how schools can improve student attendance has never been greater. This study breaks new ground by examining high schools’ contributions to attendance after accounting for individual students’ prior absenteeism and other observable characteristics—that is, their “attendance value-added.”

Thomas B. Fordham Institute

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