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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 2021

Working to Learn: New Research on Connecting Education and Career

The Project on Workforce at Harvard University
April 2021

Investing in the Power of Young People: 20 Years of Philanthropic Support for Youth Organizing

This report evaluates the critical role philanthropy has played in shoring up a youth organizing field poised to meet the multiple challenges of this moment. This report is part of FCYO’s 2020 National Youth Organizing Field Scan, a series of four reports that together offer an  in-depth look into a field that has grown in significant ways over the last two decades.

The Funders' Collaborative on Youth Organizing
April 2021

What to Expect as Gen Z Starts to Parent

How the future will unfold for today’s young children depends on a wide range of factors: climate change, technological developments, economic shifts, among others. But another primary influence will be much closer to home: the values, priorities and expectations of their parents and the choices that they make as a result. This brief explores the Gen Z generation in the United States and how these parents might approach the timeless act of parenting.

April 2021

Investments in Implicit and Explicit Dimensions of Place-Based Systems Change: A Tool for Funder Reflection and Action

Mathematica & Equal Measure
April 2021

The Role of Assistant Principals: Evidence and Insights for Advancing School Leadership

The number of assistant principals has grown markedly in recent years, and with reconsideration, the AP role could do more to help foster educational equity, school improvement and principal effectiveness.

The Wallace Foundation & Mathematica
April 2021

Immigrant and U.S.-Born Parents of Young and Elementary-School-Age Children: Key Sociodemographic Characteristics

Parents play a critical role in supporting the school readiness and educational success of their children—a role that took on even greater importance with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated shift to remote learning.

Migration Policy Institute

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