"It's an all-hands-on-deck approach. All of us have a part in ensuring that our students are attending school on a daily basis and it's all of our work to reduce that chronic absenteeism." Moderated by S. Kwesi Rollins, MSW, of the Institute for Educational Leadership, this GLR Week 2025 session started with Hedy Chang of Attendance Works setting the stage […]
Building on GLR Week 2025's theme of “Focusing on the Gaps,” this session zeroed-in on the outsized gaps impacting children living in rural areas. With the recent federal spending cuts and policy shifts to programs such as Medicaid, SNAP, and Head Start, these gaps have been severely exacerbated. The majority of the 350+ stakeholder coalitions […]
In this GLR Week 2025 session, United Ways introduced us to the families in their communities who live just above the poverty line, they are the cashiers, waiters, child care providers, and other members of our essential workforce. United Way calls them ALICE. Moderator Marjorie Sims of Ascend at the Aspen Institute grounded the conversation in an appreciation for two-generation […]
During this GLR Week 2025 webinar, Bruno Manno, Ph.D., with the Progressive Policy Institute moderated a conversation exploring the changed landscape of K–12 education in which more parents are actively curating their children’s education through options, including charters, microschools, education savings accounts, homeschooling, and more, and the opportunities and concerns this increased curation brings. Panelists began by describing […]
“And how are the children?” That traditional Maasai greeting is at the heart of a series of GLR Learning Tuesdays sessions that were hosted by the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading (CGLR) this spring and are being rebroadcast with updates during the month of August. In the first in this series of updated rebroadcasts, CGLR partners […]
This Special Rebroadcast concluded our month of rebroadcasts by revisiting a powerful GLR Week 2025 conversation from July. With the recent federal spending cuts and policy shifts to programs such as Medicaid, SNAP, and Head Start, these gaps have been severely exacerbated. The majority of the 350+ stakeholder coalitions in CGLR’s network are serving children […]
This session picked up on our 8-session series from earlier this year that focused on “Decoding NAEP” where we engaged state chiefs, educators, parents, researchers, and advocates in a deep-dive exploration of the 2024 scores from “The Nation’s Report Card.” We went beyond decoding NAEP in this session to explore the federal role in generating […]
Bruno Manno, Ph.D., with the Progressive Policy Institute moderated a conversation exploring why and how to equip parents with information and agency to take advantage of increased K–12 education options for their children, including charters, microschools, education savings accounts, homeschooling and more. This was the second webinar in a series exploring the potential and implications of parents as […]