Learning agendas are an up-and-coming tool to strengthen a culture of evidence-based decision-making within public agencies. While at the federal level they’re now required of many large departments, ...

Since the creation of First Things First, the agency's revenue from tobacco sales taxes has dropped by almost 50 percent PHOENIX — An Arizona agency that helps families with young children and child ...

In December 2022, Priscilla Lowells went over her bosses’ heads to alert the incoming Oregon governor of problems in her workplace. “With great courage I send this email in hopes that someone can hear ...

When proponents of a new state agency for early learning approached me for my support, I was extremely skeptical. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for our kids learning early and learning often. But I ...

With summer and fall planning top of mind for educators across the country, one stubborn challenge is students’ online attendance and engagement—or, precisely, the lack of it. In many schools and ...

(This is the third post in a four-part series. You can see Part One here and Part Two here.) A Harvard study, sponsored by the Raikes Foundation, suggests that student agency may be as critical to ...

Today’s guest blogger is Anindya Kundu, the author of The Power of Student Agency: Looking Beyond Grit to Close the Opportunity Gap and a sociologist at the Graduate Center, CUNY LMIS. His work has ...

Lowells, a Latina and Indigenous employee on the Oregon Early Learning Division’s compliance team, had been speaking up for years about offensive comments and passive responses to reports of racism in ...

The Department of Early Learning and Care, she said, “is not the Early Learning Division 2.0. It really is a new agency. We have a new mission, a new vision.” But current and former employees said the ...