An Arizona Department of Education report is now available on FY2019 teacher salary averages and increases from FY2018 as reported on their budgets for school districts and charters.

Spending on elementary and secondary education increased in school year 2015–16 (Fiscal Year 2016). At the national level, education spending has recovered from the economic downturn between 2009 and 2013. This is the third consecutive year spending increased, reversing a…

Learn about trauma and its impact on young children’s learning and development. Understand how to use strategies that are sensitive to children who may have experienced trauma and that support the health, healing, resilience, and well-being of these children.

This First Look includes fully edited and imputed data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) winter 2017-18 data collection, which included four survey components: Graduation Rates for selected cohorts 2009-2014, Outcome Measures for cohort year 2009-10, Student Financial…

This report takes a classroom view of the nation’s special education system, with a focus on the experience of educators and students, and explores the shortage of special ed teachers, how co-teaching strategies enhance the effectiveness of special ed and…

Credit recovery, or the practice of enabling high school students to retrieve credits from courses that they either failed or failed to complete, is at the crossroads of two big trends in education: the desire to move toward “competency based”…

This study explored the practice of crowdfunding by certified teachers in public schools and the methods they employed to finance learning materials and resources on behalf of their respective classrooms and schools. While there are numerous studies pertaining to crowdfunding…

When there’s a student death by suicide, many schools aren’t sure how to respond. Mental health experts say taking the right steps is critical, and can help prevent additional suicides.

Hope Derry and Janett Nunez Meza are not a threatening pair. Derry is an unassuming 30-year-old from Ohio, and Nunez Meza is a 40-year-old originally from Nicaragua.  The two work for the Bladen County, N.C., migrant education department, recruiting migrant…

A review of more than 6,800 schoolwork assignments finds that only a fraction were relevant for students or offered them some say in how the work was done or what they studied.

Using a 40-year panel of all public school teachers and principals in New York State, we explore how female principals affect rates of teacher turnover—an important determinant of school quality. We find that male teachers are about 12% more likely…

The Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study (BPS) currently surveys cohorts of first-time, beginning students at three points in time: at the end of their first year, and then three and six years after first starting in postsecondary education. It collects data on…