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2026
October 01, 2026
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Evidence-Based Practices for Teaching About Planetary Health and Environmental Challenges
Teaching about climate and planetary health is hard. This brief distills the evidence into five classroom practices — local relevance, solutions, structured dialogue, outdoor learning, sustained teacher support — plus approaches to avoid.
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2025
December 01, 2025
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Helping Students Make It to College: Evidence-Based Design Principles for Reducing Summer Melt
A brief on summer melt — when college-intending graduates never enroll — identifying four evidence-based models districts can use to keep students on track: nudges, counselor outreach, peer mentoring, and summer bridge programs.
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2024
February 01, 2024
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Staffing Schools in Providence: Tracking Key Metrics
A brief identifying six data-driven opportunities to strengthen teacher recruitment and retention in Providence, with retention of novice teachers and a thin applicant pool as the central challenges.
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2023
November 01, 2023
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Tracking Rhode Island's COVID-19 Recovery: District Investments in Curriculum, Professional Learning, and Technology
A brief tracing how Rhode Island districts spent federal recovery funds on curriculum, professional development, and technology — with spending in those areas rising 66% on average, and some districts more than tripling it.
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September 29, 2023
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Partnerships between PPSD and RI Education Preparation Providers (EPPs)
Interviews with Rhode Island educator preparation providers and Providence Public Schools HR identify what stands in the way of stronger partnerships — and what would make student teaching placements work better for both sides.
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May 01, 2023
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Tracking Rhode Island's COVID-19 Recovery: A First Look at Districts' Strategic Staffing and Personnel Investments
The first brief in Annenberg's ESSER series, finding Rhode Island districts largely used federal recovery dollars to pay existing staff rather than expand hiring, leaving staffing levels flat.
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March 14, 2023
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Teacher Staffing in Providence Public Schools: Key Metrics and Strategic Insights
A brief testing the teacher shortage narrative against Providence data — finding vacancies stubbornly high and retention down, but no mass exodus, with hiring the bigger bottleneck.
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2022
October 27, 2022
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Building Stronger Community College Transfer Pathways
Produced through Educational Opportunity in Massachusetts, this study follows ten cohorts of community college entrants to assess how transfer policies affected who moves to four-year institutions and who earns degrees.
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May 01, 2022
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Investing in the Future: How Rhode Island Districts are Spending Federal COVID-19 Funding and Why It Matters
A brief on how Rhode Island districts planned to spend the first $205 million in federal recovery funds, and what those choices signal for the state's school system.
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April 01, 2022
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Sustaining the Teacher Workforce: Teacher Retention in Providence
A brief testing the "exodus of teachers" narrative against Providence data, finding retention dipped modestly and that non-classroom transfers and leaves drove staffing gaps as much as attrition.
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March 01, 2022
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Helping Students Make Informed Choices About College
A brief on how schools can help students navigate college choices — what raises enrollment, what guidance on where to apply matters most, and which common strategies the evidence doesn't support.
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2021
March 01, 2021
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The Impact of COVID on College-going: Equity Implications for the Classes of 2020 and 2021
An Annenberg brief documenting how the pandemic reversed a decade of gains in Massachusetts college-going, with the class of 2020 enrolling at the same rate as the class of 2005.
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February 01, 2021
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Attracting Talent to Providence: The Challenge of Teacher Recruitment
A brief on Providence's teacher recruitment, finding earlier hiring cut vacancies and brought in more teachers of color, while English learner, math, and science positions remain hardest to fill.
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2020
December 01, 2020
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Staffing Schools Before Students Arrive: Filling Teacher Vacancies in Providence
A brief on teacher vacancies in Providence, where roughly 100 positions have historically gone unfilled by the first day — and what the district's push to hire earlier changed.
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