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For decades, disability policy has been fragmented across multiple federal agencies as Congress created new programs. Children receive special education in one system. Young adults transition to the w ...

Since its peak of 3.2 million members in 2009, the National Education Association has slowly but surely shrunk for a decade and a half. While there was a slight increase last year, membership now hove ...

In a recent RCE op-ed piece, author Cliff Smith advocated for a bill currently before the United States Senate by seriously mischaracterizing a quote from our organization's analysis of a n ...

The latest big news in work-based learning is that Dartmouth College has raised a $30M endowment to support internships. Dartmouth students can now access up to $6,500 in college funds to transform an ...

There is widespread agreement that higher education is politicized, but there is disagreement over who is to blame. The left argues President Trump and various red states enacting policies are injecti ...

Across 423 counties in 13 states, 26 million Americans live with a persistent opportunity gap. It's not because of a lack of effort, talent, or community commitment, but because big government syste ...

Something remarkable is happening across the country. The high school class of 2026 set the highest Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) completion rate on record. 59.1% of seniors complet ...

Every year, when the National Charter School Law Rankings are released, the immediate question is often, "Who moved up and who moved down?" That is the wrong question. The more important q ...

The most important teaching I do in a course sometimes happens before we open a book, assign a reading, or discuss an idea. I was reminded of this by a recent New York Times interview with the Ya ...

Chronic absenteeism remains high five years after the pandemic. More than 20% of students are still chronically absent, missing 10% or nearly a month of school each year. Progress has been real but un ...