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Governors’ Top Education Priorities in 2026 State of the State Addresses

What Are Governors Prioritizing Right Now?

From childcare to career pathways, governors across the country have touted substantial commitments to students, families, educators and communities throughout their states and territories this year.

The Engagement Advantage: Findings from a Mixed-Methods Study of Family-School Partnerships

In partnership with TNTP, Learning Heroes launched The Engagement Advantage to examine how family-school partnerships relate to student attendance and academic outcomes. The first stage of this mixed-methods study found that schools with stronger pre-pandemic family engagement experienced significantly lower chronic absenteeism and higher academic performance post-pandemic — with family engagement showing a stronger relationship to absenteeism than poverty.

Green Schoolyards Action Agenda: A National Roadmap for Nature-Rich School Grounds

Hundreds of individuals and organizations across the green schoolyards movement have set out to create a national roadmap toward a bold and shared vision that by 2050, all U.S. school grounds will be green schoolyards.

Rethinking Underemployment: Are College Graduates Using Their Degrees?

As recent college graduates face a bumpy landing in the job market, concerns about underemployment—a phenomenon in which workers possess more education or skills than their jobs require—are growing. Published estimates of underemployment among those with bachelor’s degrees range from 25 percent to 52 percent, highlighting just how difficult it is for researchers and policymakers to gauge the scope of the problem. While underemployment among college graduates is concerning, how pervasive is it?

The State of Teaching 2026

EdWeek's third year of The State of Teaching gets more granular, while continuing to survey and report on the teaching profession.

Top among them: Who are our newest, youngest teachers, and what new attitudes, dispositions, and expectations does Gen Z bring to the profession? What will help these young teachers, who have entered during a period of profound disruption in teaching, stay on the job?

FAQs: Checking in on the Department of Education

In February 2025, Brookings scholars published an FAQ piece on the U.S. Department of Education, addressing the Trump administration’s potential impact on K-12 and higher education. One year later, they check in on the department to examine what has unfolded and what might lie ahead.