2025

EVERETT — The Healey-Driscoll Administration today announced the swearing-in of Dr. Christina Grant as the newest member of the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. Dr. Grant is the Executive Director of the Center for Education...

In this episode of Education Insight, Dr. Tom Kane, Faculty Director at the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University, discusses the findings from the latest Education Recovery Scorecard and previews the work of the upcoming States...

By Nina Pasquini Tom Kane deploys data to help improve education. In a taxi bound for the Pierre Hotel on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Thomas Kane rehearsed the pitch he’d memorized to persuade the world’s richest man to fund a radical new approach to...

Post-pandemic K-12 learning gaps remain—but some districts have found ways to close them. After years of pandemic upheaval, American primary and secondary education finally looks normal again. Students are back in school, mask mandates are gone, and...

Detailing latest recovery scorecard, Ed School researcher urges broader action to reduce absenteeism and a sharper focus on targeted catch-up efforts For the latest report from the Education Recovery Scorecard, co-authored by Harvard’s Thomas Kane and...

Kane and Godfrey: States have always had the ability to hold back some federal Title I dollars for priorities like tutoring. It’s time they do it. January 28 marked the last day that schools could spend most of their federal COVID-relief funds—the largest...

In its third year, the Education Recovery Scorecard provides a high resolution picture of academic recovery in 8,719 school districts with either math or reading achievement data across 43 states. Building on the recent NAEP release, the Education...

On the heels of the recent disheartening results on the test known as the nation’s report card, another analysis adds some nuance to the overarching story of a downward slide in student achievement. Though students are still behind their pre-pandemic...

One researcher likened the effects to the ‘tsunami following the earthquake,’ with just 6 percent of districts recovered in both math and reading. More than five years after the first appearance of COVID-19 on American shores, 94 percent of elementary and...

We explain the ways students haven’t recovered. Schoolchildren in Massachusetts, Ohio and Pennsylvania are still about half a year behind typical pre-Covid reading levels. In Florida and Michigan, the gap is about three-quarters of a year. In Maine...