Education Policy

This toolkit provides practical guidance for school leaders to use climate data to draw in stakeholders to the work of continuous improvement and building equitable outcomes for students.

For Barbara Sheehan, a sophomore at George Rogers Clark High School in Winchester, Kentucky, the biggest challenge to remote learning wasn’t the coursework itself, but access to high-speed internet. In her article, Barbara details the unique challenges facing small, rural districts whether they choose to stay remote or reopen. Barbara urges stakeholders to look beyond the helicopter view and focus on developing creative solutions that work for local communities.

Balancing Act of Reopening for Students in an Urban School District

Concrete actions state and local leaders can take now to make sure schools have access to money, people, and collaborative structures that ultimately benefit students, families, and society.

New policy recommendations for a culturally and linguistically responsive approach to education that is essential to addressing the inequities that the COVID pandemic has laid bare.

This resource is designed to help state education leaders identify potential actions focused on fostering social and emotional development and school connectedness and is not intended to offer one-size-fits-all recommendations.

In this paper, the Institute’s Education & Society Program proposes five principles to guide recovery and renewal.

Policymakers need to engage with the families whose lives are affected by their decisions.

Rural schools are often treated as an afterthought in national conversations on education.

Just look at Chicago’s example.