This brief estimates the effects of federal pandemic-relief funding (ESSER III) for K12 schools on district-level student achievement growth in 2023.

This brief provides a summary of changes to state strategic plans that focus on learning recovery.

This brief New provides a synthesis of data about the district and school challenges of post-pandemic chronic absenteeism, and what can be done to meet them.

This research brief provides an overview of changes in the distribution of absences for the 2022-23 school year and how absences vary across different groups of students and schools in North Carolina.

This brief provides an overview of summer learning research in North Carolina.

The purpose of this brief is to understand differences in student performance between large cities and students nationally over the last 20 years, from 2002 through 2022, as well as after the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic. We also detail the possibilities of large city performance in the years to come.

This brief provides takeaway messages from a discussion hosted by the National Academy of Education about the long-term impacts of the pandemic on the U.S. education system.

This brief examines policy language from 10 states that have innovation zones. Innovation zones are created through state legislation to give schools and districts freedom from burdensome administrative regulations. This flexibility gives schools and districts a chance to modernize teaching and learning.

This brief provides an overview of the use of learning pods in the 100 largest cities in the U.S.

This brief provides an overview of how Hampden Public Schools used ESSER funding to fund summer enrichment programs.