Teaching & Learning
Between the Lines: Large City Performance on NAEP Over the Last 20 Years (2002-2022)
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.
RESTART Network Forum 2024: Bringing Research and Practice Together

In April 2024, the RESTART Network hosted the Actionable Insights from Research and Practice to Support Pandemic Recovery forum This two-day forum brought together researchers, policymakers, education leaders and practitioners to discuss accelerating student learning, fostering student connectedness and social emotional learning, and emerging research related to pandemic recovery.

RESTART Network Study Teams Share Progress and Key Learnings

Members of the RESTART Network’s Core Research teams gathered during the 2024 RESTART Network Forum to share progress and key learnings from their studies with members of other research teams and representatives from the Institute of Education Sciences and Office of Elementary and Secondary Education. Representatives from each of the five teams, hailing from states across the country, presented emerging trends of student experiences and outcomes during COVID-19 pandemic.

Curriculum That Counts
The January 2024 Issue of the State Education Standard from the National Association of State Boards of Education features articles about curriculum and education materials.
Student engagement in the primary grades during and after the pandemic

The sudden onset of a global pandemic in March 2020 created unprecedented challenges for all students, their families and their teachers.

The First Year of Pandemic Recovery: A District-Level Analysis
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.
COVID-19 and Educational Inequities: The Long View
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.
Learning Acceleration Guide: A Compilation of Learning Acceleration Principles and Practices in New Jersey
This report summarizes the developing base of literature on learning acceleration approaches and shares promising practices from New Jersey schools.
Innovation Zones: Policy Flexibility to Reimagine and Modernize K-12 Education Post-COVID-19
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.
COVID-19 Revealed New Roles for Cities to Create a Continuum of Support for Youth and Families. They Shouldn't End with the Pandemic
This brief provides an overview of the use of learning pods in the 100 largest cities in the U.S.