Reduce Absences in Early Grades with Personalized Postcards: Technical Appendix
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This technical appendix provides more detail about the methods and analytic approach outlined in the step-by-step guide.
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Reduce Absences in Early Grades with Personalized Postcards
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Proving Ground built a series of guides designed to share lessons learned through successful interventions piloted by its member districts to decrease chronic absenteeism. This is a step-by-step guide for districts who are interested in implementing a
The Response of Rural Districts to the COVID-19 Pandemic
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NCRERN partner districts focused their early pandemic response on (1) meeting students' basic needs, (2) facilitating access to learning, (3) educating students, and (4) building community.
Rural school districts can be creative in solving the internet connectivity gap—but they need support
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While COVID-19-related school closures in spring 2020 challenged every school district, students in rural districts faced especially significant barriers. In particular, lack of consistent internet limited their access to online instruction.
What Do Changes in Social-Emotional Learning Tell Us About Changes in Academic and Behavioral Outcomes?
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This PACE report shows that while SEL disparities mirror academic inequities, some schools achieve exceptional growth, offering insight into practices that promote equitable social-emotional development.
Trends in Student Social-Emotional Learning: Evidence From the First Large-Scale Panel Student Survey
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This large-scale study reveals important developmental trends and disparities in students’ social-emotional learning, emphasizing the need for targeted, evidence-based SEL supports across K–12 education.
Strategic Data Project Launches 2020-2022 Cohort of Fellows for Educational Improvement
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Data and evidence leaders work together to close gaps for students and educators. Cambridge, Mass. (October 13, 2020)—The Strategic Data Project (SDP), an initiative of the Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University, launched its...
From Pasco to St. Paul, how to target kids for success, not crime
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Big data can be used for good, not bad. Here’s how, writes a Harvard specialist. A recent Tampa Bay Times investigation reported that the Pasco Sheriff’s Office “keeps a secret list of kids it thinks could ‘fall into a life of crime.’” Triangulating data...
The Needs of Students and Educators Should Guide Our Use of New Classroom Technologies
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Since the start of the pandemic it’s become common to suggest that education will have to adapt to a “new normal,” with increased use of online platforms. But private tech firms risk having an oversized say in what the “new normal” is — ignoring the needs...
Harvard’s Strategic Data Project Announces Inaugural Fellowship Addressing Postsecondary Career and Technical Education
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Cambridge, MA (December 7, 2020)—The Strategic Data Project for Postsecondary Career and Technical Education (SDP-CTE), an initiative of the Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University, launches its first cohort of SDP-ECMCF fellows...