Annenberg and Africana Studies hosted a screening of Tara Erica Moore’s Legacy: Apartheid’s Shadow, followed by a panel on apartheid’s enduring effects on history, race, and education.

News from Brown reports on $474,000 in Brown awards supporting academic excellence and equity initiatives in Providence public schools, with comment from Jonathan Collins.

The Journal reports on the National Student Support Accelerator's push to make high-impact tutoring available to all K-12 students.

The Watson Institute hosts New York Times reporter Dana Goldstein on how education policies impact families, students, and teachers.

Apolitical explores whether text-message nudges to parents, like the Tips by Text project, can make children better readers.

WBUR reports on Annenberg's "Rising Numbers, Unmet Needs," which finds newcomer students among the fastest-growing populations in Massachusetts high schools — and highlights how widely their backgrounds and outcomes vary.

A talk on how heat and air pollution affect student learning, and what school infrastructure can do.

Elly Field will discuss research on school choice and demographic change, exploring how access to school choice options shapes patterns of enrollment, school composition, and neighborhood dynamics.

The 74 includes tutoring research among its 16 charts that changed how we thought about America's schools in 2020, asking whether tutoring can scale.

NBC News covers the rise of private tutoring amid school uncertainty, citing projections that students will return having retained only a fraction of a typical year's gains.

The Principal Matters podcast discusses supporting students from immigrant families during the pandemic, drawing on an EdResearch for Recovery brief.

In Brookings, Daphna Bassok and Justin Doromal argue that using public dollars to pay early childhood teachers more is key to reducing turnover.

The Boston Globe reports on a Racial Imbalance Advisory Council finding that more than 225,000 Massachusetts students attend segregated schools with lower graduation rates and test scores than their peers.

Edom Tesfa presents work in progress on immigrant student and family engagement in K-12 schools, part of Annenberg’s Education Workshop Seminar Series. Thursday, October 29 at 1:00 p.m.

News from Brown announces the Library's new Center for Library Exploration and Research, which complements community-focused work by the Annenberg Institute and others.

The New York Times asks whether a generation of children is being lost to remote learning, citing Brown researchers' projections of pandemic learning loss.

In Education Next, Susanna Loeb interprets the 2019 Nation's Report Card results and argues for focusing on the lowest-performing students.

The Detroit Free Press reports on a wearable device counting the words Detroit parents say to young children, with context from word-gap research.

The Boston Globe highlights research from Brown University examining widening racial and socioeconomic gaps in college completion and earnings among Massachusetts public high school graduates with similar MCAS performance

Futurity covers Brown research on schools near environmental hazard sites and the students most exposed.

A screening of Tara Moore's documentary Legacy: Apartheid's Shadow, co-hosted by Annenberg and Africana Studies/Rites and Reason Theatre. Thursday, September 24 at 4:30 p.m.

The 74 profiles the National Student Support Accelerator and Annenberg's pivot to delivering individualized tutoring to underserved students during the pandemic.

In The Atlantic, Sarah Cohodes argues that states with low virus rates can reopen schools in September if they do so carefully and prioritize younger children.

NBC 10 investigates Rhode Island's special education crisis and the families who say their children are stuck in a broken system.

WPRI reports that Rhode Island students are missing school at record-high levels, sometimes for months, as chronic absenteeism persists after the pandemic.