Schools are the 'hubs and hearts' of neighborhoods. Here's how they can strengthen the communities around them
Food deserts. Poor housing conditions. Lack of community investment.
Food deserts. Poor housing conditions. Lack of community investment.
Social Sciences
Jul 20, 2022
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According to a new study, students in grades 3 through 8 across the United States lost as much as 20 weeks of academic progress during the 2020–2021 school year as a consequence of remote and hybrid learning at the height ...
Economics & Business
Jul 20, 2022
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The early years of children's development are crucial for developing social, emotional and communication skills. Given the significance of these years, it is vital we continue to unpack what happened for young children at ...
Education
Jul 18, 2022
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The first national guidelines to help K-12 schools create successful, cost-effective approaches to deliver integrated student supports that address both in- and out-of-school barriers to learning—from hunger, to mental ...
Education
Jun 29, 2022
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Schools in the U.S. resumed in-person learning last year, but enrollment in public schools across the country has failed to recover to pre-pandemic levels and, in some cases, continued to drop.
Education
Jun 23, 2022
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The rollout of remote teaching in New Jersey during the COVID-19 pandemic was haphazard, under-resourced, inequitably delivered, contributed to student and teacher stress and may exacerbate digital and social inequality, ...
Education
May 18, 2022
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A new report on pandemic learning loss found that high-poverty schools both spent more weeks in remote instruction during 2020–21 and suffered large losses in achievement when they did so. Districts that remained largely ...
Education
May 06, 2022
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A Rice University study found "race-blind" automatic admissions policies at Texas' state universities boosted diversity in highly segregated school districts, especially in rural areas of the Lone Star State.
Social Sciences
May 02, 2022
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An anti-idling campaign at two Salt Lake County elementary schools was effective in reducing idling time by 38%, and an air monitoring experiment found that air quality around schools can vary over short distances. These ...
Environment
May 02, 2022
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A new research brief from Rice University's Kinder Institute for Urban Research has found that English learners have the most success when they stick with a single program—regardless of program type—and skills from their ...
Education
Apr 28, 2022
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