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As John Adams observed, “facts are stubborn things.” The facts, as education policy writer Chad Aldeman recently observed, are that No Child Left Behind coincided with some of the fastest achievement gains on record for Black, Hispanic and low-income...

As students across the country head back to school, CEPR Executive Director Christina Grant joined NBC News to offer advice to teachers and parents on how to kick the year off right, from making a positive first contact to communicating through the year...

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After years of dire test scores coming out of the pandemic, new national test results released on Wednesday offered a glimmer of hope — at least for younger students. The nation’s 9-year-olds, who were in preschool when the pandemic hit, have made a...

U.S. schools are facing a daunting problem. Students simply can’t read or do math as well as they used to. Student test scores have declined over the last decade, in an academic slump that started before the pandemic and has continued since. Compared with...

Public schools in Canton, Maple Heights, East Cleveland and nine rural districts will receive support and resources to address chronic absenteeism, a nationwide problem. Ohio, like many other states, defines chronic absenteeism as missing at least 10...

Chronic absenteeism, or missing 10-percent of total school days in a school year, is one of three critical metrics tracked by Harvard in its study of Berne-Knox-Westerlo and 29 other rural districts; the other two are college readiness and college...

On the other side of the country, another effort, housed at Harvard University, is also helping districts tackle chronic absenteeism. Started in 2015, the Proving Ground program helps school districts leverage data to design, plan, implement and test...

The National Center for Rural Education Research Networks (NCRERN) is a recently established organization out of Harvard that studies and supports a network of rural school districts in New York and Ohio. To better understand how these districts were...

RICHMOND — Efforts to reduce chronic absenteeism within the Edison Local School District are showing promise as officials partner with Harvard University and the Cleveland Browns through the Get to School, Stay in the Game initiative. The district is...