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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 2024

Tracking Transfer

The 2024 edition of Tracking Transfer features two companion reports—one focused on community colleges and the other on four-year institutions—and is a call to action to improve ineffective and inefficient transfer pathways in higher education. 

Aspen Institute
April 2024

Progress Interrupted: Evaluating a Decade of Demographic Change at Selective and Open-Access Institutions Prior to the End of Race-Conscious Affirmative Action

This report is a retrospective analysis of the changing demographics at both selective and open-access institutions from 2009 to 2019.

Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce
April 2024

A National Scan of Policies, Practices, and Systems Affecting Young People

This resource looks at the systems in place to support young people disconnected from, or reconnecting to education, training or employment.

MDRC and Dalio Education
April 2024

Finding a Way Forward: An Analysis of Federal Policy and Learner Pathways

This report provides an overview of the pathways landscape across the country, proposes a research-based vision for pathways participation, and elevates approaches to move federal policy forward on behalf of all learners.

Bellwether
April 2024

Evaluating and Improving Teacher Preparation Programs

This consensus study report addresses the crucial role of teacher preparation programs (TPPs) to recruit, prepare, and retain a qualified and diverse teacher workforce, generating a supply of teachers that is responsive to demand to ensure that all students are taught by well-prepared, culturally responsive teachers.

National Academy of Education (NAEd)
April 2024

Lessons from a Statewide Transfer Grant Program

The Texas Transfer Grant Pilot Program aimed to help community college students from low-income backgrounds transfer to four-year universities. This brief shows a significant impact on fall enrollment that grew over time for those students who were also offered a grant for the spring semester.

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