The 13th annual High School Benchmarks report by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center offers a glimpse into postsecondary progression and outcomes for young people after graduating from high school.
The Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) released a report in August that aims to help state and local education officials better understand and adapt to changes in California’s English learner (EL) population. Almost 20 percent of students statewide are ELs, and nearly 40 percent […]
Over the summer, the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC) announced an increase in the number of newly issued teaching credentials in the 2023–24 academic year, signaling a promising development in addressing the state’s teacher shortage. Hispanic educators represented a significant number of those new […]
As the nation’s 74 million children and youth are being impacted by the realities of climate change at increasing rates, a recent brief by This Is Planet Ed offers a snapshot of teens’ climate literacy in 2025.
More than five years after the onset of the pandemic disrupted the academic lives of the nation’s K-12 students, recovery in math is slow for many with some continuing to fall further behind. A new report by the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) gives recommendations how to remedy the issue.
The Northwest Evaluation Association’s (NWEA) recent brief, “Policy recommendations for addressing the middle school reading crisis,” provides insights on how state and local educational agency leaders can improve literacy outcomes.
While most mayors in the U.S. don’t directly oversee their local school districts, they still have an important role to play in helping students succeed through direct support, supporting strategic partnerships and public advocacy. New guidance from the National League of Cities details how city […]
Hundreds of bills aimed at ensuring that students, families and policymakers have access to the secure, timely information needed to navigate and understand education systems and the workforce were introduced across the country in 2025, according to Data Quality Campaign’s (DQC) latest report, Education and […]
A July report from Bellwether and the Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), The Pandemic Learning Project: Lessons From Learning Loss Interventions and What Leaders Should Do Next, examines the scale and magnitude of learning loss in U.S. K-12 public schools […]
In the country’s 500 largest school districts, one-third of superintendents were women as of July, according to the 2025 update of the ILO Group’s Superintendent Research Project.
