Advocacy and Policy

A persistently large number of children in the U.S. live in poverty, despite sustained economic growth. Growing up in poverty not only harms children in the short run, but by…

As outrage over the Parkland school shooting persists, lawmakers are looking for actual policy solutions. The Trump administration and its supporters are latching onto school discipline reform as the solution. But by…

When the Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement announced five years ago that it wanted to see real innovation in child support enforcement, Colorado leaped at the challenge. The Colorado…

The Fresno and Visalia school districts are spending $10 million each on new schools. San Jose Unified put about $12 million toward staff bonuses, while Santa Ana Unified spent $9…

Kindergarten has arguably been the most successful education reform in U.S. history. But it almost didn’t happen. Its survival is owed in large part to an educator named Lucy Wheelock.…

States play a role in ensuring school safety, managing resources, and providing training, technical assistance, and guidance to local schools. As both the National Governors Association and the Department of…

Secretary of State for International Development Penny Mordaunt gave a speech at the All Party Parliamentary Group on Disability, outlining her goals for the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development’s focus…

Growing up I was surrounded by instability, poverty and a family that had significant substance abuse struggles—from this lived experience I knew I wanted to give back and better the…

America Forward moved to action and was involved in supporting and ensuring the passage of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), which made many significant changes to our federal workforce…

Betsy DeVos, the country’s highly unpopular education secretary, had been asked to participate in an interview on 60 Minutes, and the news-media-shy billionaire philanthropist and school-choice advocate accepted the invitation. The media appearance would be a high-stakes…

They call Chris Winn the signatures guy. A delivery driver by day, he spends his free time drumming up support for animal rights. “When I did the shark fin ban…

Ever since 1966, when Johns Hopkins University sociologist James S. Coleman determined in his government-commissioned report that low-income children of color benefit from learning in integrated settings, most education researchers have agreed…