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March 1, 2024 | Teacher apprenticeships aim to expand the supply of well-prepared teachers by allowing candidates to earn a salary and on-the-job experience while working toward a teaching license. Tennessee’s apprenticeship in teaching is the first to be registered in the United States.

February 13, 2024 | Attending relationship-centered schools can enhance students’ academic outcomes, motivation, and positive social behavior. This study shares the emerging impacts of two relationship-centered efforts to foster student learning and well-being in schools and districts, including approaches that allow students and adults to build trust and shared knowledge.

December 26, 2023 | With low salaries and high levels of student loan debt, many teachers are feeling the pinch of financial strain and job-related stress, making it more difficult to diversify, prepare, and retain teachers, and potentially exacerbating nationwide teacher shortages.

September 23, 2022 | Key civil rights conditions are essential to deeper learning—providing the opportunity to learn the skills and knowledge that students need to succeed. Authors examine the community and school inequities that create persistent obstacles to this goal, the civil rights actions needed to remove them, and highlight exemplary schools that offer deeper learning that engages and empowers students.

November 10, 2023 | The Relationship Centered Schools (RCS) campaign seeks to transform schools by creating opportunities for relationship-building, valuing student voice, and investing in staff. The experiences of two RCS sites in California shed light on factors that enable or hinder relationship-centered practices as well as implications for practice and policy.

January 17, 2024 | Student access to high-quality learning should not be predetermined by race, yet racial disparities in education persist. The State Handbook for Advancing Racial Equity offers a framework that state education leaders and policymakers can use to assess and advance racial equity in education through state-level strategies.

October 25, 2023 | UCLA Community School (UCLA-CS), a public school in central Los Angeles, serves a large immigrant population, almost all of whom use a language other than English to communicate with their families. Six key practices contribute to UCLA-CS’s positive school-level outcomes, including above average graduation rates and teacher retention.