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This journal article examines how an evidenced-based, integrated student support intervention responded to systematically identify and address the academic and nonacademic needs of students and families in 94 high-poverty, urban schools
This report provides the results of a randomized controlled trial of a virtual early literacy tutoring program.

Superintendents and school leaders navigated hundreds of impossible decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic. They needed quick, accurate, and trusted information about their students’ academic well-being, but districts weren’t positioned to start new partnerships or data sharing agreements during these tumultuous months. Their research staff were frequently managing public health logistics and staffing data, too.

In April 2024, the RESTART Network hosted a two-day in-person forum to discuss accelerating student learning, fostering student connectedness,  social emotional learning, and emerging research related to pandemic recovery. The forum brought together researchers, policymakers, leaders, and practitioners from across the country to share their knowledge, perspectives, and experiences. 

This report provides updates on the well-being of students, as well as indicators of the overall health of the education system, including data on teachers, enrollment, and finances.
This guidance series provides an overview of the current state of research and practices on afterschool and summer learning programs.
This brief examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on educator attrition and mobility in North Carolina and highlights a sharp increase in movement between Fall 2020 and Fall 2022.

The evidence was clear: enrollment in full-day preschool had long-lasting benefits for students, especially students who started off the farthest behind. Beginning in 2013, Chicago Public Schools officials invested in new policies and programs that resulted in quadrupling full-day programs, most notably on the West and South Sides of Chicago in primarily Black neighborhoods with the lowest income levels.

This journal article synthesizes 33 articles on the implementation of tutoring, defined as one-to-one or small-group instruction in which a human tutor supports students grades K-12 in an academic subject, to better understand the facilitators and barriers to program success.
This journal article uses interview data to examine elementary school educators' perspectives of the impact of COVID-19.