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Jennifer Weld
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April 13, 2021
Federal Relief Packages to Support Education The federal government has provided multiple funding relief packages to address needs in state, local, and higher education systems due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Each relief package has multiple funding...
April 9, 2021
The Challenge Schools are an essential source of nonacademic support for students as they provide essential services including health and mental health resources. These services are necessary factors for students’ emotional, social, and physical...
April 8, 2021
As policymakers across the country grapple with how to administer 2021 assessments, The Hunt Institute and Data Quality Campaign have hosted a series of webinars highlighting different aspects of measuring student growth this year. During these...
April 7, 2021
(Posted from ACT's Leadership Blog) ACT and The Hunt Institute are mission-aligned on closing gaps in education equity, opportunity, and achievement. Stay tuned for opportunities to engage with both organizations as we work together to provide...
March 31, 2021
The Challenge As of March 2, 2021, United States Department of Health and Human Services has directed states to make teachers, school staff, and child care workers eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccination. While a high percentage of the adult...
March 30, 2021
Introduction and Overview America’s child care industry was in a precarious state even before COVID-19. But there is little question that the pandemic has exposed and exacerbated the sector’s longstanding challenges – and created new ones along the...
March 24, 2021
The Challenge The coronavirus outbreak has compounded a serious problem within schools: chronic absenteeism. Chronic absenteeism is defined as a student missing two or more days of school per month – roughly 10% of their time in school. Amid the...
March 24, 2021
On March 9, 2021, Homeroom with Education Leaders kicked off another webinar with State Superintendent Catherine Truitt, Superintendent of Public Instruction for North Carolina; Hassan Hassan, Chief Executive Officer at 4.0 Schools; and Joel...
March 18, 2021
Experts estimate that nearly three million students have not experienced any education since March 2020. Following the cancellation of state assessments and the waiver of state and federal accountability systems due to the COVID-19 pandemic,...
March 17, 2021
The Challenge Nationwide school disruptions due to the COVID-19 pandemic have impacted the education of millions of students, as many students experience inequitable access to distance learning and educators find growing evidence of large...
