This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. t was March 15, 2020 when Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the emergency closure of New York City’s schools amid skyrocketing coronavirus infections. (See our time capsule of what that surreal…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The day her teenage daughter’s hair began to fall out, Eva Garcia knew the stress had become too much. For months, Kimberly Son Garcia had been getting bumped off Zoom…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “My grandparents took care of me when my mom left for the U.S. My dad, an anti-gang officer, worked a lot. Still, he was always there for me. But when…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Annual state end-of-year tests have been the mainstay of federal and state accountability systems for nearly 30 years. In spring 2020, given pandemic-related disruptions in learning, the federal Department of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Libraries have been key partners to cities during the pandemic in tackling the digital divide, among other critical needs, and are now eligible to receive billions of dollars in coronavirus…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Schools that serve free breakfast and lunch to all kids spend up to 67 cents less per meal than schools that don’t, according to a new analysis of USDA data.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. More now than ever before, there is a critical need to invest in high-quality early childhood and kindergarten programs that set students up for long-term success. Kindergarten is an instrumental…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Compared to a normal year, students learned less in 2020, were more likely to fail their classes and were less likely to be in school at all. Is this all…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Child marriage rates are set to increase at alarming rates within the next decade because of COVID-19, a new report from UNICEF warns. In the report published on Monday, the organization revealed that…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Twenty percent fewer kindergartners on track to learn how to read than their peers were at this time last year, and most haven’t made much progress since the fall, according…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As our country continues to wrestle with the damaging effects of the coronavirus pandemic, and school closures become the norm nationwide in an attempt to slow the spread, millions of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Even before the outbreak of COVID-19 and resulting mass closures, high-quality child care was in short supply. Between 2018 and 2019, half of states actually saw a decline in the number of…