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  • Maine K-12 students spend almost 1.5 years less in class than in other states - Bangor Daily News, February 2025

    The 3 Reasons Why Students Lose the Most Instructional Time- EducationWeek, December 2024

    The 4-Day School Week: It's a Trend Across America ... Despite Questionable Results - Real Clear Investigations, July 2024

    What a Difference a Day Makes: How Schools Can Harness More Learning Time - EducationWeek, December 2023

    10 Education Studies You Should Know From 2023 - EducationWeek, December 2023

    Q&A: Kraft on Why Small Classroom Interruptions are a Big Problem - FutureEd, July 2020

    What classroom interruptions cost students and how to avoid them - Washington Post, July 2020

    Typical Providence Classroom Interrupted Over 2,000 Times A Year, Says Brown Researcher - GoLocalProv, June 2020

    Want to Maximize Student Learning When Schools Reopen? Minimize Classroom Interruptions - EducationWeek, June 2020

    A crazy idea worth considering: more school - Minnesota Reformer, May 2023

    In Rare Move, New Mexico Adds Weeks’ Worth of Extra K-12 Class Time- The 74, March 2023

    First the pandemic kept kids out of school. Now natural disasters like Hurricane Ian are making things worse. - The Messenger, October 2022

    How much time do kids spend in school? It depends on where they live.- USA Today

    Schools Need to Reclaim Lost Learning Time. Here’s How to Start - Education Week, October 2022

    The real cost of classroom interruptions- Tes, October 2021

    Prioritizing Learning Time Post-Pandemic - Forbes, July 2021

    Research: Intercom Announcements & Other Interruptions Cost Up to 20 Days of School- Tech&Learning, August 2021

  • The struggle to spot (and develop) effective teachers - Tes, November 2024

    What Does It Mean to ‘Grow Your Own’ Teachers? It Depends - Education Week, January 2024

    PROOF POINTS: How important was your favorite teacher to your success? - The Hechinger Report, June 2023

    Stipends narrowed substitute teacher gaps in highly segregated Chicago schools - K-12 Dive, December 2022

    Should you keep the same class for more than a year? - Tes, October 2022

    PROOF POINTS: Debunking the myth that teachers stop improving after five years - The Hechinger Report, March 2022

    Does experience make the best teacher? - National Council on Teacher Quality, September 2020

    Looping: Here’s What Happens When Students Have the Same Teacher More Than Once - EducationWeek, June 2022

    Staying with the same teacher benefits students, research says - Chalkbeat, June 2022

    Repeat teachers: the benefits of sustained student-teacher relationships - District Adminstration, July 2022

    When Teachers and School Counselors Become Informal Mentors, Students Thrive - Education Week, July 2021

    Does experience make the best teacher? - National Council on Teacher Quality, September 2020

  • Why teacher evaluations flopped - Slow Boring, May 2023

    The Rise and Fall of the Teacher Evaluation Reform Empire - Albert Shanker Institute, April 2023

    The rise and fall of better teacher evaluation: Who gets the blame? - National Council on Teacher Quality, January 2022

    Colorado’s teacher evaluation system could see big changes - Chalkbeat, February 2022

    Not much to show nationally from a decade of teacher evaluation reforms - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute, January 2022

    Don't Give Up on Teacher Evaluation Reforms - The74, January 2022

    Evaluators require expertise - National Council on Teacher Quality, November 2019

    What do teachers think of their evaluation feedback? - National Council on Teacher Quality, October 2021

    Efforts to Toughen Teacher Evaluations Show No Positive Impact on Students - Education Week, November 2021

    PROOF POINTS: Nationwide, evaluating and penalizing teachers rarely works - The Hechinger Report, December 2021

    Not much to show nationally from a decade of teacher evaluation reforms - Thomas B. Fordham Institute, January 2022

    Don't Give Up on Teacher Evaluation Reforms - AOL, January 2022

    Evaluators require expertise - Thomas B. Fordham Institute, November 2019

    What do teachers think of their evaluation feedback? - Thomas B. Fordham Institute, October 2021

  • 16 Charts that Changed the Way We Looked at America’s Schools in 2021 - The74, December 2021

    Save more money, fire fewer people and boost student achievement? How one district weathered the Great Recession. - National Council on Teacher Quality, March 2016

  • Can Teachers and Parents Get Better at Talking to One Another? - The New Yorker, September 2023

  • This didn’t start with DOGE - Vox, February 2025

    ‘The pipelines are drying up’: Why teacher salaries are catastrophic for the profession - Boston Globe, January 2025

    Pandemic, Politics, Pre-K & More: 12 Charts That Defined Education in 2024 - The74, December 2024

    4 Things to Know About the Messy Landscape of Grow-Your-Own Teacher Prep - EducationWeek, October 2024

    Teachers Are Missing More School, and There Are Too Few Substitutes - The New York Times, February 2024

    This Montana school solved its teacher shortage by opening a day care - HighCountryNews, May 2024

    What Does It Mean to ‘Grow Your Own’ Teachers? It Depends - EducationWeek, January 2024

    People Don’t Want to Be Teachers Anymore. Can You Blame Them? - The New York Times, September 2023

    What we do (and don't) know about teacher shortages, and what can be done about them - NPR, March 2023

    6 things to know about U.S. teacher shortages and how to solve them - NPR, March 2023

    14 Charts This Year That Helped Us Better Understand COVID’s Impact on Students, Teachers and Schools - The74, December 2022

    There’s a Reason There Aren’t Enough Teachers in America. Many Reasons, Actually. - The New York Times, December 2022

    All Teacher Shortages Are Local, New Research Finds- The74, December 2022

    Teacher shortages as much a local issue as a national phenomenon - K-12 Dive, December 2022

    States easing substitute teaching requirements to soften shortage impacts - K-12 Dive, January 2022

    Uptick but no exodus: Despite stress, most teachers stay put - Chalkbeat, March 2022

    Are teachers leaving the classroom en masse? - Vox, August 2022

    The ‘Mass Exodus’ of Teachers Never Happened, Paper Argues - The74, August 2022

    There Is No National Teacher Shortage - The Atlantic, August 2022

    The scarce, incomplete, and elusive teacher workforce data - National Council on Teacher Quality, June 2023

    How Bad Is the Teacher Shortage? What Two New Studies Say - EducationWeek, June 2022

    16 Charts that Changed the Way We Looked at America’s Schools in 2021 - The 74, December 2021

  • Research Suggests that Teacher Strikes Work - Forbes, August 2024

    Do Teacher Strikes Increase Pay?- EducationWeek, August 2024

    US teacher strikes were good, actually - Vox, August 2024

    An Unexpected Effect of Teacher Strikes on How Much Schools Spend - EducationWeek, April 2024

    When Teachers Strike, Education Becomes More Prevalent in Political Campaigns, Study Finds - EducationWeek, October 2021

  • Teachers Are Burning Out on the Job - The Wall Street Journal, August 2024

    The rich world’s teachers are increasingly morose- The Economist, July 2024

    Blowing past the warning signs: The teacher morale crash is here - Miami Herald, May 2024

    The Lesson Interruptions We Miss and How to Fix Them - Tes, September 2023

    9 big ideas to bolster the teaching profession and boost student learning - Chalkbeat, June 2023

    The teaching profession is facing a post-pandemic crisis - Chalkbeat, June 2023

    The Status of the Teaching Profession Is at a 50-Year Low. What Can We Do About It? - Education Week, November 2022

    Why teachers in Malden and Haverhill went on strike - WBUR, October 2022

    America’s great remote-learning experiment: What surveys of teachers and parents tell us about how it went- Chalkbeat, June 2020

  • New Research: Done Right, Virtual Tutoring Nearly Rivals In-Person Version - The74, January 2025

    Tutoring Reality Check: Exclusive Research Shows Gains Shrink as Programs Expand - The74, September 2024

    Students aren’t benefiting much from tutoring, one new study shows- The Hechinger Report, September 2024

    This District Provided Tutoring to Thousands of Students. The Results Were Mixed- EducationWeek, September 2024

    PROOF POINTS: New studies of online tutoring highlight troubles with attendance and larger tutoring groups - The Hechinger Report, July 2024

    The Tutoring Problem - Chronicle, May 2024

    Michael Thomas Duffy: The critical roles CT schools are struggling to fill - Hartford Courant, February 2024

    Is tutoring the answer to pandemic learning loss? - CommonWealth Beacon, January 2024

    Youngkin wants tutors for many students. Where will they come from?- Washington Post, September 2023

    This is the solution to the covid learning loss crisis- The Washington Post, May 2023

    Students are behind in math and reading. Are schools doing enough? - The Washington Post, December 2022

    Half of NYC students are behind in reading. Hundreds of CUNY tutors aim to change that. - Chalkbeat, December 2022

    The Learning Recovery Strategy Districts Are Overlooking - EducationWeek, November 2022

    Math Scores Fell in Nearly Every State, and Reading Dipped on National Exam - The New York Times, October 2022

    Massachusetts students hit 19-year low on national reading, math exams - Boston Globe, October 2022

    Could Tutoring Be the Best Tool for Fighting Learning Loss? - The New York Times, October 2022

    Why Many Academic Interventions Don’t Have Staying Power—and What to Do About It - EducationWeek, October 2022

    Fort Worth schools struggle to meet state tutoring requirements. They aren’t alone. - Forth Worth Star Telegram, April 2022

    Can Online Tutoring Help Schools Dig Out of a Pandemic Learning Hole? - EducationWeek, January 2022

    As Schools Push for More Tutoring, New Research Points to Its Effectiveness — and the Challenge of Scaling it To Combat Learning Loss - The74, February 2022

    5 Tips for Online Tutoring Based on New Research - Tech & Learning, February 2022

    PROOF POINTS: Uncertain evidence for online tutoring - The Hechinger Report, February 2022

    With Millions of Kids on the Line, Can Schools Make Tutoring Work? - EducationWeek, April 2022

    EL, high-poverty students struggle to access appropriate virtual learning workspaces - K-12 Dive, June 2022

    Schools are spending millions on new virtual tutoring. Is it working? - Chalkbeat, June 2022

    PROOF POINTS: Early data on ‘high-dosage’ tutoring shows schools are sometimes finding it tough to deliver even low doses - The Hechinger Report, August 2022

    ‘Too Good to Be True’: NH Gives Students $1,000 for Tutoring —Yet Sign-Ups Lag - The74, August 2022

    As schools return to in-person learning, demand for online tutoring remains high - NBC News, August 2021

    Study: Tutoring May Mitigate Pandemic Learning Losses - The Mirage, May 2021

    Addressing unfinished learning with targeted help and high-dosage tutoring - The Thomas B. Fordham Institute, May 2021

    Large-Scale Tutoring as a Solution for School Closure Losses: Is the Idea Taking Hold? - Robert Slavin, May 2020

    Takeaways from research on tutoring to address coronavirus learning loss - The Hechinger Report, May 2020

    Boston Public Schools Are Getting Giant Stimulus Check. Time to Think Big - Boston Globe, May 2021

    Study: Tutoring May Mitigate Pandemic Learning Losses - Mirage News, May 2021

    Can Tutoring Help Students Recover From The Pandemic? This Indy School Hopes So - wfyi, July 2021

    High-Dosage Tutoring: Can Technology Help Curb Learning Loss?- Tech&Learning, April 2021

    The tutoring revolution: How it could transform education- The Christian Science Monitor, March 2021

  • 4 priorities for K-12 in Biden’s first State of the Union address - K-12 Dive, March 2022

    Higher Grades, Higher Earnings: New Study Ties In-School Mentoring with Huge Benefits for Students - The 74, July 2021

  • Alum Named to White House Council of Economic Advisers - Harvard Graduate School of Education, August 2024

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