"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 session with updates taped in early August poses the question “More Hopeful Futures or Children as Collateral Damage?” as it pertains to various policy shifts related to the Medicaid program. Dr. Robert K. Ross will moderate a conversation exploring how Medicaid serves as a linchpin connecting children’s health to educational achievement and […]
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — more commonly known as SNAP or Food Stamps — is the nation’s largest anti-hunger program, supporting more than 34 million individuals, nearly half of them children. SNAP helps families afford food and groceries, a basic necessity linked directly to improved birth outcomes, healthy development, early learning, and school success, […]
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 […]