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From Analysis to Action: How States Can Use the College and Career Readiness Data Infrastructure Matrix to Improve Their Data Systems

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State and local education agencies are under increasing pressure to improve students’ college and career readiness and to demonstrate those improvements, and data is a critical part of that work. Yet college and career readiness data are often fragmented...

SLS Summer 2026 Newsletter

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Dear friends, It’s been a busy season for States Leading States as the weather has warmed up! Last month, I had the opportunity to attend the 2026 Strategic Data Project (SDP) Convening in Cambridge, and it reminded me how hard so many people are working...

Report: Randomized Controlled Trial of BookNook Virtual ELA Tutoring (SY24–25)

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Discover insights from the Arkansas Tutoring Project's randomized controlled trial of virtual BookNook tutoring.

Research Brief: Does Virtual BookNook Tutoring Improve Student ELA Achievement?

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This research brief summarizes work from the Arkansas Tutoring Project, evaluating the impact of BookNook virtual tutoring on ELA performance.

Schools Must Do the Hard Work If High-Dosage Tutoring Is to Help Every Student

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There is a temptation in education to abandon projects rapidly and instead chase a new solution as a magic bullet for improving student outcomes. Too often, when an investment doesn’t have an instant payoff, it’s abandoned for the next shiny thing. New...

What's behind the decade-long 'learning recession' for American students

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William Brangham: As the school year is coming to a close, a new analysis shines yet another harsh spotlight on what's being called a learning recession for America's students. And it's a problem that started long before the pandemic. That's according to...

Tom Kane has tracked years of U.S. test scores. Here’s what he’s learned — and still can’t explain.

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Just about everyone in education is trying to figure out why student achievement has been declining and how to raise it back up. If anyone would know the answer it might be Tom Kane, a Harvard University professor who has been poring over data on student...

From Learning Recession to Learning Recovery: Understanding the Sources of U.S. K-12 Improvement

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In May, the fourth iteration of the Education Scorecard —a collaboration between CEPR, the Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford University, and faculty at Dartmouth College—was released. This year marks a transition. Now that the federal pandemic...

Building College and Career Readiness: A Cross-State Policy Landscape Analysis in Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma

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This brief examines how three neighboring states—Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma—are approaching the challenge of preparing students for college, career, and, broadly, life beyond high school.

Using Multimodal Classroom Data to Measure Student Competencies for Upward Mobility

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Led by a leading scholar of classroom interaction and mathematics education and supported by established partnerships with districts and education technology firms, the project is positioned to produce scalable tools that help teachers identify and...