This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The pandemic has accelerated the adoption of educational technologies. But experience and know-how about using those technologies to their greatest advantage has not been so easy to transplant. Survey results…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The city of Stockton, California, embarked on a bold experiment two years ago: It decided to distribute $500 a month to 125 people for 24 months — with no strings attached…
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. Library closures hit patrons hard—especially those who relied on them as their main internet source and used them to access online educational resources. There have been several studies about how the lack…
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. It can be hard to draw lessons from a crisis when you are still in the crisis. While hope is on the horizon, we are definitely still living with the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Nearly 12 million women in poorer countries lost access to contraception in the pandemic, leading to 1.4 million unplanned pregnancies, the United Nations said on Thursday. Estimates by the UN…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. New research is shedding light on how dementia can increase people’s risk for developing COVID-19, particularly among two groups: African Americans and people with vascular dementia. The headline findings of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. These students, about a thousand juniors and seniors, are collecting, analyzing and interpreting sets of data from their own lives. In the process, they are learning basic statistics and computer…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. We have been exploring how authentic public presentations of learning may lead to increased student engagement and why a campaign called Share Your Learning has been advocating for more teachers, schools, districts,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the current linear — take-make-waste — economy, financial drives often come before social protection and participation. Too often this means that people find it hard to access work or…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “Choice” in mainstream, predominately white-led reproductive rights discourse typically refers to the individual right to make one specific choice: whether (or not) to have an abortion. A reproductive justice lens looks at…