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Member Insights: Infusing Playful Learning into Everyday Places

Most kids spend just 20% of their waking hours in the classroom. How can communities harness some of the remaining 80% for meaningful and joyful opportunities to learn?

Grantmakers for Education

A Farewell from EdFunders' Chief Program Officer

Grantmakers for Education

Afterschool and Summer Workforce Solutions Database

Grantmakers for Education and Partners

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January 2024

Education Recovery Scorecard

The Education Recovery Scorecard provides the first opportunity to compare learning loss and ensuing recovery at the district level across the country, providing opportunities to further understand how time remote, federal dollars expenditure, and other factors impacted students during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as how some districts have made substantial progress toward academic recovery.

Stanford and Harvard Universities
January 2024

On the Same Page: A Primer on the Science of Reading and Its Future for Policymakers, School Leaders, and Advocates

This is a primer on “the science of reading” for policymakers, advocates and the media. This publication aims to provide a clear fact base for discussions about reading instruction and lessons from past large-scale reform efforts. 

Bellwether
January 2024

Learning and Earning by Degrees

Learning and Earning by Degrees: Gains in College Degree Attainment Have Enriched the Nation and Every State, but Racial and Gender Inequality Persists, which examines the monetary and nonmonetary benefits associated with increased college degree attainment between 2010 and 2020.

Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce
December 2023

Navigating the Artificial Intelligence Revolution in Schools

AI, like all technology, is neither inherently good nor bad; what matters is how it’s deployed. And the research for this report suggests that the most effective way to use artificial intelligence in schools is as a tool that supports rather than supplants educators.

FutureEd
December 2023

A Common Agenda: How Three Communities Overcame Societal Tumult to Create Educational Equity Agendas

This report tells a story about the power of community-led, community-driven change, detailing how three communities produced a shared education equity agenda. EdFunders Executive Director Nicole Rodriguez Leach contributed the foreword highlighting the learnings for education philanthropy.

The Harwood Institute
December 2023

Across the Aisle: Bridging the Education Divide

This survey captures insights from parents and voters on a variety of education issues ranging from career readiness, student mental health, childhood literacy, school choice, parental involvement in education, and more. Funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York.

The Hunt Institute and Carnegie Corporation of New York

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