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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.