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Kids Left Schools Last Year Because of the Switch to Remote Classes; Early Numbers Suggest They May Not Be Coming Back Soon (The 74)
The 74 MILLION - With the release of new data in recent months, a clearer picture is emerging of how K-12 enrollment has responded to the pandemic. A research brief released in September by scholars at the University of Michigan and Boston University, Tareena...
4 trends in public school enrollment due to COVID-19 (The Conversation)
THE CONVERSATION - When schools began the fall semester of 2020 – six months after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic – many of them reported a significant decline in student enrollment. To better understand these enrollment declines, authors...
Public schools see fewer enrolled kindergartners. Where’d they go? (Marketplace)
Public schools see fewer enrolled kindergartners. Where’d they go?NPR Marketplace - Among the many things the pandemic has disrupted, education is near the top of the list — public school education, in particular, and enrollment in public schools, specifically. Some...
New Study: Did Online School Drive Down Cyberbullying? (The 74)
THE 74 MILLION - When the pandemic first struck, many child well-being advocates worried that the massive shift to remote school would spur an uptick in a troubling behavior: online bullying. According to new research from Andrew Bacher-Hicks, Joshua Goodman, Jennifer...
Proving the School-to-Prison Pipeline (Education Next)
EDUCATION NEXT - At issue is the school-to-prison pipeline—a term often used to describe the connection between exclusionary punishments like suspensions and expulsions and involvement in the criminal justice system. Black and Hispanic students are far more likely...
The Covid-19 Pandemic Is a Lousy Natural Experiment for Studying the Effects of Online Learning (Education Next)
EDUCATION NEXT - The Covid-19 pandemic that prompted a nationwide shutdown of schools and a shift to online instruction in spring 2020 also prompted a wave of articles calling this instructional change a “natural experiment” that could be used to study the effects of...
Newark Students, Including Special Needs and English Learners, Are Less Likely to Transfer Out of Charters than District Schools, Study Finds (The 74)
THE 74 MILLION - Students who land in charter schools are less likely to leave—including English learners and students with disabilities. In a new study released by the Wheelock Educational Policy Center, researchers use data from Newark, New Jersey to represent the...
Regulatory Arbitrage in Teacher Hiring and Retention: Evidence from Massachusetts Charter Schools (VoxEU)
VOXEU - Charter schools in the US – publicly funded, but independently operated schools of choice – are often criticized for competing with and harming the quality of surrounding traditional public schools. This column examines Massachusetts’s expansive and effective...
Are Charter Schools Hurting Traditional Public Schools? (American Enterprise Institute)
AEI.ORG - WEPC faculty director Marcus Winters joins The Report Card with Nat Malkus podcast to weigh in on whether the expansion of the charter school sector harms students who remain in traditional public schools.Policy BriefWorking Paper
How Charter Schools Train Teachers (The Wall Street Journal)
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL - Advocates of school choice sometimes say that a little competition is good for everyone. Case in point: A new analysis suggests that charter schools serve as a proving ground for effective teachers who aren’t yet licensed, but who eventually...