AUGUST 2, 2018 Education Next This summer marked the launch of a new initiative called Pathway 2 Tomorrow: Local Visions for America’s Future aimed at producing a catalog of locally inspired policy proposals to meet the needs of state and local education leaders. The centerpiece of the effort is an open call for proposals for innovative policy […]
JUNE 28, 2018 Emmeline Zhao, The 74 An initiative launching today is issuing an open call for proposals to match community needs with innovative education policy solutions. Led by former New Mexico secretary of education Hanna Skandera and education consultant Kristen Lozada Morgan, Pathway 2 Tomorrow: Local Visions for America’s Future “is an inclusive approach to […]
By Chad Aldeman, Ahead of the Heard Tomorrow is College Signing Day, a day to celebrate students and their commitment to complete their education beyond high school. In anticipation of the day’s events, I pulled the latest state-level data on Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) completion rates. See the table below for the full results. The […]
By Chad Aldeman, Bellwether Education Partners The American education system is in the midst of a strange paradox. Reading and math achievement levels are increasing for 4th- and 8th-graders, but they’ve barely budged for high school students. High school graduation rates are at all-time highs, and more students are going to and persisting in college, […]