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Using Learning Science To Analyze the Risks and Benefits of AI in K-12 Education

Before adopting AI tools, it is important that schools think critically about whether these tools will further divorce students from how their brains are primed to learn.

Fact Sheet: Local School Board Elections Matter

Local school boards help shape their communities, yet few people show up to their elections.

5 Reasons To Pay Attention to Local School Board Elections

As voters prepare for election season, they should not discount the importance of their local school boards.

Executive Summary: Protecting Children From Extreme Heat Is Critical for Their Health, Learning, and Development

This fact sheet summarizes a recent Center of American Progress report highlighting the need for policymakers to take steps to develop heat standards for children and support infrastructure improvements to ensure schools, child care centers, and communities are safe and healthy places for children.

Protecting Children From Extreme Heat Is Critical for Their Health, Learning, and Development

As climate change intensifies extreme heat around the globe, policymakers must take steps to develop heat standards for children and support infrastructure improvements to ensure schools, child care centers, and communities are safe and healthy places for children.

2024 Summit on Education: Reset. Reframe. Reform.

Summit on Education: Reset. Reframe. Reform.

K-12 Education Is Vital to Success of Biden Administration’s Investment Agenda

K-12 education needs a seat at the table when implementing new laws to boost infrastructure, green energy, and technology.

Fact Sheet: Targeted Grants for Educational Excellence Program

This fact sheet outlines the details of a proposed grant program that would increase recruitment and retention of highly qualified educators in schools with the highest teacher turnover.

How To Ensure Equitable Access to Great Teaching

The Center for American Progress proposes a new grant program to address the working conditions that contribute to job dissatisfaction and high turnover among the nation’s K-12 teachers in order to increase equal access to highly qualified teachers.

Ending K-12 Education Funding Inequity: Public Education Opportunity Grants

A Public Education Opportunity Grants program will make K-12 education more equitable at the local, state, and federal levels.

An Overview of the Teacher Alternative Certification Sector Outside of Higher Education

A growing number of students are enrolling in alternative certification programs for teachers run by operators outside colleges.

Fact Sheet: Public Education Opportunity Grants

This fact sheet outlines the main goals and provisions of the proposed Public Education Opportunity Grants program.

A First 100 Days Agenda for K-12 Education

The next presidential administration must take immediate, bold action to provide a quality education for every child.

Public Education Opportunity Grants

The Center for American Progress is proposing a new federal grant program to dramatically increase the federal investment in K-12 education and make education funding more equitable at the federal, state, and local levels.

Why K-12 Education Needs More Federal Stimulus Funding

In the wake of the coronavirus crisis, a major federal investment in K-12 public education is urgently needed.

What To Make of Declining Enrollment in Teacher Preparation Programs

Enrollment in teacher preparation programs has seen declines, but identifying the problem is only the beginning.

Successful Implementation of High-Quality Instructional Materials

Numerous studies underscore the effects of high-quality curricula on student achievement, but to achieve the intended goal of adopting such curricula, careful attention must be paid to the implementation process.

10 K-12 Education Policy Questions Every Presidential Candidate Should Answer

Presidential candidates should have comprehensive plans to give every student access to an excellent education.

Student Debt: An Overlooked Barrier to Increasing Teacher Diversity

Black and Latinx students’ disparate experiences with student loan debt compared with their white counterparts may affect their choice to enter or stay in the teaching profession.

A Quality Education for Every Child

The time is now for policymakers to take a bold and comprehensive approach to K-12 education.

Strikes Driving Change in States With Lowest-Paid Teachers

In states with the lowest teacher pay, teacher protests have been common, as has legislative action to increase salaries.

Fear of strikes forcing states to give teachers much-needed raises

Lisette Partelow explains how the recent spate of teacher strikes has made raising teacher salaries good politics—and has forced states to consider much-needed raises.

Trump’s Education Budget Ignores Needs of Students and Schools

The FY 2020 Department of Education budget proposal would make drastic and harmful cuts.

A Looming Legislative Backlash Against Teacher Strikes? Why Walkouts Could Become Illegal in Some States, With Strikers Facing Fines, Jail, or Loss of Their License

Following a wave of teachers strikes in support of higher salaries and greater investment in public schools, author Lisette Partelow analyzes the predictable legislative backlash—bills that would slash education funding, make walkouts illegal, and weaken teachers unions.

11 Ways New Governors Can Lead on Education Through Executive Actions

From teacher pay to school infrastructure to workforce readiness, new governors should move quickly to advance key education priorities in their states.

The Trump Administration’s Harsh Immigration Policies Are Harming Schoolchildren

Children, particularly those of school age, have experienced pain and trauma as a result of Trump’s rhetoric and the immigration policies it begets.

Fixing Chronic Disinvestment in K-12 Schools

States and the federal government must reverse a decade of disinvestment and give students and teachers the resources they need to be successful.

Curriculum Reform in the Nation’s Largest School Districts

This report provides an analysis of the instructional materials used by the 30 largest school districts in the country.

Fact Sheet: Yes, Increase the Salaries of All Teachers

Teachers across the country are underpaid and deserve a raise.

Why Won’t America Invest in Its Teachers?

This week, Igor sits down with Oklahoma's "Teacher of the Year," Jon Hazell, to discuss why teachers are striking; CAP's director of K-12 Strategic Initiatives, Lisette Partelow, also joins.

America’s Teachers Are at Their Boiling Point

Author Lisette Partelow discusses the recent teacher strikes and the need to include educators in the conversation for higher pay.

7 Great Education Policy Ideas for Progressives in 2018

A progressive education policy agenda should focus on putting economic mobility and opportunity within reach for all.

How To Fix the Large and Growing Latinx Teacher-Student Gap

Every state lacks sufficient Latinx teachers to reflect the diversity of its student body. Policymakers need to adjust recruitment tactics to fill the Latinx teacher-student gap.

Trickle-Down Cuts to Education

Proposed federal cuts and the Republican tax plan would have a devastating impact on students, families, and schools nationwide.

America Needs More Teachers of Color and a More Selective Teaching Profession

States, teacher preparation programs, and alternative certification programs are taking steps to build a more diverse and selective pool of educators.