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Lightening the Load Report
A teacher helps a student with schoolwork. Wraparound services allow for fewer health realted issues that cost students instructional time, among other benefits. (AP/Alex Brandon)

Lightening the Load

Wraparound services are extremely beneficial in community schools and help with teacher efficiency, write Theodora Chang and Calyssa Lawyer.

A Way Forward Report
Our nation’s economy and students depend upon smart investments in education innovation, targeted action to improve teachers and schools, and vigorous oversight to ensure low-income students get their fair share of resources. (AP/Eric Gay)

A Way Forward

CAP's Education Team outlines how Congress should move forward with the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

Jeremy Ayers, Cynthia G. Brown, Ulrich Boser, 2 More Raegen Miller, Theodora Chang

Moving Education Beyond the Model Minority Myth Article
Low academic achievement is a pressing issue for Asian American and Pacific Islander students. Closing achievement gaps for these  students needs to be part of our larger effort to improve the  achievement of educationally disadvantaged children. (AP/Eugene Tanner)

Moving Education Beyond the Model Minority Myth

Theodora Chang explains how the latest U.S. Census data underscores why we cannot ignore the achievement gaps among Asian American and Pacific Islander students.

Theodora Chang

Maximizing the Promise of Community Schools Report
A teacher helps a student with schoolwork. Wraparound services allow for fewer health realted issues that cost students instructional time, among other benefits. (AP/Alex Brandon)

Maximizing the Promise of Community Schools

Report from Theodora Chang recommends that Congress authorize a program that provides comprehensive services that create the conditions for students to learn.

Theodora Chang

Illinois Bill Exemplifies Groundbreaking Education Reform Article
A sixth-grader copies her homework assignment from a  list on the board at the Kellogg Elementary School in Chicago. A new bill in the Illinois state legislature protects students from chronically low-performing teachers by streamlining the dismissal process, and it would put in place other reforms to get the most effective teachers in the classroom. (AP/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Illinois Bill Exemplifies Groundbreaking Education Reform

The Illinois State Senate recently passed a bill with reforms protecting teachers’ rights while working to get the most effective teachers in the classroom, write Cynthia Brown and Theodora Chang.

Cynthia G. Brown, Theodora Chang

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