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Business leaders argue against Question 2 in this CommonWealth Beacon op-ed, citing Brown research showing MCAS scores predict long-term student outcomes.

The Boston Globe walks through Annenberg's post-pandemic assessment of Rhode Island schools — enrollment down roughly 8,000 students, chronic absenteeism climbing sharply, and college-going falling from 70 to 62 percent.

State education board member breaks down MCAS impacts

NBC 10 covers College Day at Brown, with Annenberg's Soljane Martinez on helping first-generation students picture themselves on a college campus.

Brown News covers Power to the Pupil, a participatory budgeting event where 120 Providence eighth graders decided how to spend $100,000 on their schools, with support from Annenberg staff.

2022 Annenberg Annual Report

The Brown Daily Herald covers Annenberg's PPSD staffing report, with author Kate Donohue on retention, and on why the district's applicant pool can't yet meet its teacher diversity targets.

Brown News covers College Day, an Annenberg-organized event bringing nearly 350 high schoolers from Providence, Central Falls, and Pawtucket to campus to explore their post-secondary options.

NBC 10 covers Annenberg's finding that Providence retains 88 percent of teachers but is losing more to other Rhode Island districts than it gains, with the applicant pool still too thin.

Teacher shortage in Providence persists despite bonus spending but there are bright spots

Florida Attacks Black Studies

AERA Selects John B. Diamond to Deliver 2022 Brown Lecture in Education Research

Faculty at Brown earn prestigious awards, distinctions

The Boston Globe covers Annenberg's finding that Providence retained 93 percent of teachers annually over five years, above the national average, despite a jump in departures.

Congratulations to Matt Kraft, Recepient of AERA 2022 Outstanding Public Communication of Education Research Award

Annenberg director John Papay writes for Education Week on how research-practice partnerships can move education research into real policy decisions, drawing on a decade of partnership work.

Susanna Loeb, Matthew Kraft, Lindsay Page, and John Papay named to 2022 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings

NBC 10 reports on Rhode Island's $645 million in federal recovery funding and the hiring challenge it creates, with Annenberg's Nate Schwartz on what the money could reshape.

Absenteeism actively harms everybody, even the students who show up

Educational Opportunity in Massachusetts is a long-standing research-practice partnership between Annenberg researchers and the Massachusetts Departments of Elementary and Secondary Education and Higher Education. Our work analyzes how students progress to and through the state's K-16 education system and into the workforce, with a specific focus on providing evidence to inform policy and practice in the Commonwealth.