For many adults, homework may conjure memories of endless rows of math problems, perhaps multiplication or long division, and the prospect of a long night at the kitchen table. Or a worksheet of vocabulary terms or history concepts. Data, however, suggest that practices around homework may be changing for some schools
Last week, Inside Higher Ed released its 2026 Survey of College and University Presidents. According to their findings, just 16% of presidents say institutions have been moderately, very, or extremely effective in responding to the public’s declining confidence in higher education. Nearly one in two, 47%, say they haven’t been effective at
Our last newsletter asked the question: where is the political will to address the clear challenges we are facing in education? We speculated that voters might see the problem as so challenging, they don’t know how we would begin to solve it. Or, they may not be aware of the
At the end of February, the assessment company NWEA released a report detailing their latest findings on learning loss recovery. The results painted a familiar picture. From their analysis of fall 2024 data, a third of schools have recovered in either math or reading, while only one in seven have
At the end of January, the Census Bureau released the results of its American Community Survey (ACS), a trove of data about several aspects of American life. This week, we take a look at the latest ACS estimates on K-12 school enrollment (ACS 1-year estimates for 2024) and compare them
The American Council on Education (ACE) has released its Winter Term Pulse Points Survey. These latest data examine the perspectives of higher education leaders across a variety of issues, revealing their priorities and concerns for the coming year. As part of the survey, leaders were presented with a series of