This report details findings from the Summer Enrichment Initiative launched by the Connecticut State Department of Education to provide students opportunities for socialization and fun as the state eased it's COVID-19 pandemic restrictions.
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This brief discusses the impact of the Learner Engagement and Attendance Program (LEAP) which was launched to address student absenteeism and disengagement from school due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
This article details the effectiveness of a novel, 100-percent online math tutoring program, targeted at secondary school students from highly disadvantaged neighborhoods.
This report highlights the top seven trends found across state education-related proposals and features state examples of each. The trends include K-12 funding, workforce development, teacher staffing, early learning, among others.
This brief highlights the top trends across the early childhood, K-12, and post secondary education continuum in Governors' 2023 state addresses.
This report details the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on test scores, absences, course grades, and grade retention as well as how pandemic effects are distributed across students.
In May 2023, the RESTART Network hosted a two-day in-person forum to discuss accelerating student learning, fostering student connectedness and social and 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.
Rural schools educate more than 9 million (19%) students in the United States (National Center for Education Statistics). Understanding the unique challenges facing rural education is an important step to achieving an equitable education recovery. As part of our research-practice-partnership to understand learning recovery programs across California’s nearly 1,000 districts, we will be launching a statewide survey of school districts in spring, 2023. In our previous work, we found that rural districts were less likely to respond to online surveys.
This journal article discusses the importance of social and emotional learning for students of color. Researchers investigate the issues and challenges students of color experience before, during, and after the pandemic.
In this brief discusses the barriers of implementing high-quality tutoring in schools during the pandemic.