Stories

How Should Schools Spend ESSER Summer Funds? RI Case Study Has Some Clues

Two years ago, the U.S. Department of Education released the bulk of Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funds to state education agencies. It was the largest-ever one-time...

Mental Health

Advocacy for Mental Health in Schools Starts With Us

There is no shortage of headlines decrying our kids and students are grappling with unprecedented levels of depression and anxiety. A meta-analysis of studies looking at global rates of depression...

Republican Education Bill Would Increase Interference in Classrooms

Parenting is a crash course in uncovering the truth, whether it’s a chocolate-stained toddler promising they didn’t get into the cookie jar, or a teenager assuring us that “of course there’ll be...

Literacy

The ‘Transformation is Real’ as the Science of Reading Takes Hold Across Public Schools

Perquimans Central Elementary is a school for pre-kindergarten through second grade in North Carolina’s rural northeast. Years ago, when Melissa Fields served as principal there, she adopted Lucy...

anti-racism

Black Male Teachers Were My Father Figures, And We Need More of Them

With the spring semester upon us, districts nationwide still struggle with teacher shortages. In New Jersey, it’s a crisis that is making it harder to hire and retain Black and Latino teachers....

5 Ways to Build Community Engagement in Schools

It’s pretty difficult to understate the importance of community involvement in schools. At KIPP, when we talk about “Family and community engagement in school,” we’re talking about schools, families,...