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High-quality early childhood experiences depend upon ongoing formative assessments. High-quality assessments enable teachers to monitor each student’s changing skills and competencies and to tailor instruction to reinforce children’s strengths and support individualized growth. Aggregated assessment data can also be used to identify system-level patterns, strengths, and gaps that can inform equitable resource allocation and investments in early childhood and elementary programs and initiatives.
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While many education stakeholders have called for intensive remediation for students to address this year of disrupted schooling and potential learning loss, a new report argues that intensive remediation alone will not meet students’ needs and—if conducted in a way that is segregating, stigmatizing, and separated from children’s real-life concerns—could even deepen inequalities and exacerbate trauma.
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The Partnership for the Future of Learning offers a set of strategies to recruit, prepare, develop, and retain high-quality teachers and bring greater racial, ethnic, and linguistic diversity to the profession. This in-depth playbook includes examples of legislation and research-based policies, a guide to talking about teacher shortages and strengthening the profession, and publications for further reading.
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Decades of research have affirmed that teachers are the most critical school resource to advance student achievement. The key elements for a strong and diverse teaching profession include effective recruitment strategies, high-retention and culturally responsive preparation, supportive working conditions, and competitive and equitable compensation, as well as adequate and equitable funding to support all of these efforts.
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Project-based learning is a dynamic teaching approach that actively engages students in learning through real-world projects relevant to their lives and experiences. In these videos from Edutopia, education experts explore what the science of learning and development tells us about project-based learning.
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The Washington Post by Donna St. George, Hannah Natanson, and Perry Stein | More than $1.8 billion in federal funds have been designated to school systems within the Washington, D.C., region. Schools have broad discretion in deciding how to designate the federal relief, but 20% of the money must target learning loss. LPI’s Michael Griffith offers perspective on how schools can allocate funds.
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The guilty verdicts for George Floyd’s killer are a moment of hope on a backdrop of persistent race-based violence. And while we celebrate this moment as a major event in bending the arc of history toward justice, there is enormous work to be done to achieve racial justice and reconciliation for all, and each of us has a role to play in that work.
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Forbes by Linda Darling-Hammond and Barbara McKenna | The guilty verdicts for George Floyd’s killer are a moment of hope on a backdrop of persistent race-based violence. And while we celebrate this moment as a major event in bending the arc of history toward justice, there is enormous work to be done to achieve racial justice and reconciliation for all, and each of us has a role to play in that work.
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Reopening efforts should consider child care and preschool programs alongside k–12. To clarify what is known about COVID-19 transmission in early education programs, LPI researchers synthesized studies from around the world that explore transmission rates and mitigation strategies in these programs. They found that, when appropriate health and safety precautions are in place, there is no increased risk of contracting COVID-19.
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SoLD Alliance by Pamela Cantor, M.D., Linda Darling-Hammond, Merita Irby, and Karen Pittman | Education and youth development leaders have come together to foster the transformation of education and learning systems to embrace what we know about how children learn and develop. This work joins scientific research to the deep experiences of practitioners to foster learning experiences and opportunity to many more students—experiences that are transformative, empowering, personalized, and culturally affirming.
