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2023 Across the Aisle Report: Cutting Through the Noise: Parents and Voters...

December 14, 2023

2023 Across the Aisle: Bridging the Education Divide  Cutting Through the Noise: Parents and Voters Want Real-World Skills, Safe Schools, and Literacy   Education has been dominating headlines across the country. States and communities continue to...

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School-Based Healthcare Can Address Children’s Unmet Health Needs: Models,...

March 13, 2023

While the COVID-19 pandemic spotlighted and uncovered new issues pertaining to student health, policymakers and educators have struggled with identifying, funding, and implementing strategies to support the physical and mental health of students...

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Addressing Historic Underfunding of HBCUs

December 12, 2022

Over the past few decades, public and private Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) experienced steep declines in federal funding. While most institutions of higher education have received lower state and local appropriations since...

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The State of Higher Education Funding: Historically Black Colleges and...

December 7, 2022

Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) are vital to higher education. Yet, many land-grant HBCUs have received lower levels of funding since their inception. Over the past few decades, in fact, inequity in land-grant university funding...

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Blue Ribbon Commission Report to the State Board of Education

December 5, 2022

For years, local education agencies (LEAs) have struggled to recruit and retain teachers. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated these issues, as increased stress and pressures led to more teachers exiting the profession. In Missouri, the state’s...

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Teacher Workforce Diversity: Why It Matters for Student Outcomes

November 16, 2022

In North Carolina, student populations are becoming more and more racially and ethnically diverse, while educator diversity lags behind. When research has clearly shown that a diverse teacher workforce positively impacts achievement of all students,...

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2022 Across the Aisle Report: What Voters and Parents Want in Education Report

November 1, 2022

Last year, as states and districts across the country grappled with academic and social and emotional learning loss, states and districts were still in a state of triage, learning about the full impacts of school closures while supporting students...

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Identifying Barriers to Recruiting and Retaining a Diverse Teacher Workforce

October 24, 2022

A diverse teacher workforce has the potential to improve outcomes for all students, and especially for students of color. While North Carolina clearly recognizes the importance of increasing diversity in the workforce - and despite national and...

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Measuring Educational Opportunity in North Carolina Public School Districts

August 16, 2022

Dr. Robert C. Carr is a research scientist at the Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy. In a research brief titled “Measuring Educational Opportunity in North Carolina Public School Districts,” Dr....

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Early Childhood Issue Brief – Strong Foundations: Promoting Diverse and...

June 22, 2022

In the nearly 70 years since the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark anti-segregation ruling in Brown vs. Board of Education, America’s K-12 and higher education settings have become more richly diverse. But the same is not always true of American...

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