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Committee for Economic Development of The Conference Board, 2020
The COVID-19 crisis has been a nearly unprecedented disruption to American education at all levels. Disruptions to early childhood learning have also been widespread. Public pre-K programs attended by 1.6 million children nationwide were closed to help stop the community spread of COVID-19. Roughly one-third of children under age five typically…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, COVID-19, School Closing
Schwartz, Heather L.; Grant, David; Diliberti, Melissa Kay; Hunter, Gerald P.; Setodji, Claude Messan – RAND Corporation, 2020
U.S. school districts have taken widely varied approaches to reopening public schools for the 2020-2021 school year. The divergence stems from the highly localized approach to both schooling and addressing the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and differences in COVID-19 transmission rates among communities. To develop a national…
Descriptors: Public Schools, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
Alliance for Excellent Education, 2010
"Straight A's: Public Education Policy and Progress" is a biweekly newsletter that focuses on education news and events both in Washington, DC and around the country. The following articles are included in this issue: (1) "Nation's Report Card": Reading Scores Flat for Fourth Graders; Eighth Graders Improve by One Point; (2)…
Descriptors: Public Education, Reading Achievement, Scores, Grade 4