Explainers

Diversity

A Leaky Educator Pipeline Loses Teachers of Color

Despite the benefits of a diverse teaching force, prospective teachers of color fall out of our leaky preparation pipeline at every stage: preparation, hiring, induction, and retention. Here’s what...

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Diversity

Teacher Diversity Explained: Why It Matters, and How We Got Here

The Reality—Students Need More Teachers of Color While America’s student body has grown more diverse over time, the teachers working with them have remained overwhelmingly white. More than half of...

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CRT

The Furor Over AP African American Studies, Explained

What should have been a milestone in U.S. education instead ignited a firestorm. In early 2023, the College Board released a revised framework for its new Advanced Placement (AP) African American...

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Teaching

EXPLAINED: Why the ‘Science of Reading’ is Vital in Classrooms

Reading is a vital skill. Yet there are approximately 25 million children in the U.S. who cannot read proficiently, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). In shutting...

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COVID-19

Should Schools Offer More Remote Options?

As schools across the country return to in-person learning, parents are divided. We thought the pandemic was over and, suddenly, with the surge of the Delta variant of COVID-19, it’s not. We thought...

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Teaching

EXPLAINED: What Are Standardized Tests and Why Do We Need Them?

Few education topics get parents, teachers, and school leaders more riled up than discussions about using results from student tests to measure the quality of state education systems, districts,...

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