The Education Policy Hotlist
Top News in US Education Policy for the Week of December 5th
THE WEEKS AHEAD
Wednesday, December 7, 2022, at 3:00 PM ET, Learning Policy Institute is hosting a webinar on transforming learning environments to support whole-child educational approaches. Register here.
Thursday, December 15, 2022, at 2:00 PM ET, FutureEd is hosting a webinar on Solving the Teacher Shortage Challenge. Register here.
HIGH-DOSAGE TUTORING
The Oregonian covered the state of high-dosage tutoring across the state. Quick take: it’s a patchwork approach [OR].
Accelerate awards innovative tutoring models, including R&D efforts [The74].
Research evidence supports the effect of comprehensive out-of-school time services on student outcomes [AEFP].
Cleveland maintains plans for online tutoring, including paying teachers to provide evening hours supplemented with other private companies [The74].
TEACHER WORKFORCE
The GAO recommends that the US Department of Education combat negative perceptions of the teaching profession and address recruitment and pathways via competitive grants and evidence-based guidance [The74].
Nat interviews Melissa Lyon and Matt Kraft about research on perceptions of the teacher profession [AEI].
The number of Oregon teachers hit an all-time high while enrollment continued to decline across the state. The teacher workforce crisis is a local problem that requires context and local data [OR].
To address teacher shortages, Alabama is paying student teachers to lead classrooms [AL].
FEDERAL RELIEF FUNDS
The latest impact study from the Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education illuminates a state-level perspective on federal relief fund spending. Almost half of the district leaders report inflation altered their ESSER plans (48%) [GA Partnership].
At a time when the center of gravity in education funding is shifting from states to districts, Edunomic’s NERDS database helps local leaders and advocates understand where their school stands [Edunomics].
Mayor Eric Adams shifted $568 million in federal COVID relief money that had been earmarked for 3-K expansion over the next two fiscal years towards other education spending needs [Chalkbeat].
STUDENT WELL-BEING
New Jersey Bill S3330 would require schools to help students talk about grief in age-appropriate ways. An important skill coinciding with the aftermath of Covid-19 deaths, in which more than 1 in 360 children lost a parent or caregiver [NJ].
Some families move from conservative states to flee restrictive transgender policies [Politico].
More than 2,000 school districts from varying geographic and economic contexts reported having no homeless students [The Seattle Times].
POSTSECONDARY NEWS
The US Department of Education announced an extension of the pause on student loan repayment, interest, and collections [USED].
Yale and Harvard Law Schools are withdrawing from the annual US News Rankings [NYT].
Governor Roy Cooper (NC) announces members of a commission to study university governance [NC].
HIGH SCHOOL SUCCESS
It is promising that high school graduation rates rose in GA, but do we know whether they are ready for postsecondary success [AP]?
INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION MODELS
New research out of Pakistan explores rural education by gender [Brookings].
GOVERNANCE
The 2022 state board races included their fair share of partisan rhetoric, yet none of the boards flipped partisan control [NASBE].
National Association of State Boards of Education
NEW SCHOOL MODELS
CRPE’s latest pods webinar covers how Black-led pods create innovative school models that hold traditional school systems accountable [The74].
The Oakland REACH
ICYMI
Jim Cowen speaks with North Dakota State Superintendent Kirsten Baesler in the latest EduRecoveryHub podcast. Baesler covers recovery for rural settings and the critical role school boards play in our educational success.
Dr. Christine M. T. Pitts serves as Director of Impact and Communications at the Center on Reinventing ic Education, overseeing policy leadership and external affairs. A teacher and researcher by training, she previously led research and evaluation for Portland Public Schools. She served as Policy Advisor at NWEA, overseeing state and federal policy to advance equity and innovation in educational assessment. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram @cmtpitts.