This report highlights how students are showing signs of recovery in Fall 2024, but the average American student remains less than halfway to full academic recovery and students whose learning was most severely interrupted are still not getting the supports they need.

The article summarizes the findings of a case study examining how literacy instruction in K-3 classrooms was impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

This article uses findings from a qualitative study to demonstrate how teachers can envision themselves as key stakeholders in continual educational improvement through critical reflection in collaborative professional communities.

This report shares study findings that document the how teachers' relative effectiveness changed when shifting from in-person to remote instruction and analyze the characteristics of teachers associated with greater effectiveness for remote instruction. The study's sample examined three large metro-Atlanta school districts using matched student- and teacher-level data.

The brief summarizes a case study of California's Pajaro Valley Unified School District, highlighting steps that the district took in its crisis response including adding 750 hotspots so students could have internet access and increasing communication with families.

This report shares the findings of a a study on a large school district in the metro-Atlanta area that instructed teachers to devote more instructional time to mathematics and English language arts at the beginning of the school year in an effort to counter the effects of the pandemic on learning.

This brief analyzes public school district leaders' concerns about student academic learning during the 2020-21 school year, reporting on content coverage and percentages of students performing below grade level or earning poor grades.

This report shares findings from interviews with top leaders in five school systems that have emphasized grade-level instruction and highlights key challenges to implementing acceleration, such as challenging student behaviors, staffing shortages, and politicization of health, safety, and education.

This paper summarizes survey findings that illuminate how school districts in Minnesota responded to students' and families' emerging technology needs when schools shifted to hybrid and distance learning models during the pandemic.

This report provides an overview of the effects of the pandemic on English learners in the metro Atlanta area.