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Falling Enrollment Most Extreme in Wealthy Districts, Study Finds

Public school enrollments has fallen most sharply in affluent districts as shifts to private schooling increases. Joshua Goodman comments.

Vax Rates, ESAs, and Cell Phone Bans: 12 Charts That Defined Education in 2025

Research from Joshua Goodman and Abigail Francis highlights that enrollment losses were steepest in wealthier schools.

Research: Learning Recovery Has Stalled, Despite Billions in Pandemic Aid

As gaps linger, education leaders need to be vigilant to prevent them from becoming permanent, says Joshua Goodman.

Emergency-Hired Teachers Do Just as Well as Those Who Go through Normal Training

According to research by Andrew Bacher-Hicks, Sidrah Baloch, Olivia Chi, and Ariel Tichnor-Wagner, teachers hired under COVID-era waivers perform just as well as their normally trained counterparts.

The Best Way to Teach Reading Is Proven — What Mississippi, Colorado Get Right

Mississippi and Colorado have made great strides toward improving children’s literacy outcomes—and a particularly effective strategy is grade retention, according to a study cowritten by Marcus Winters of the Wheelock Educational Policy Center.