Research on Education Strategies to
Advance Recovery and Turnaround

Teaching & Learning
This report provides the results from analyzing test score results from roughly 8,000 school districts in 30 states to measure the extent to which test scores changed from Spring 2019 to Spring 2022 and from Spring 2022 to Spring 2023.
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 report summarizes the developing base of literature on learning acceleration approaches and shares promising practices from New Jersey schools.
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 report provides the strategies and use of federal relief funds under ESSER used by the Hawai'i State Department of Education.
This article provides specific strategies to help school-based speech-language pathologists understand and address students communication skills in the wake of the pandemic.
This report provides a summary of the results of the Kindergarten Readiness Assessment used to assess the majority of the kindergarteners enrolled in Maryland's public schools in 2021-2022.
This journal article shares the steps taken by a school to advocate for and implement a model that allows special education services to access the behavior-analytic educational supports they had received on campus (e.g., Board Certified Behavior Analyst and paraprofessional support) in a novel and remote manner.
This brief focuses on the impacts of Summer 2021 school extension programs on students who were enrolled in grades 9 through 12 in the 2020-21 academic year and remained enrolled in North Carolina public high schools in the 2021-22 academic year.