The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is often referred to as “The Nation’s Report Card” because it is the one national report that gives us a broad look at how our kids are doing academically across the country. In recent months, state standards have...
In May 11, 2021 GLR Learning Tuesdays webinar, panelists shared the valuable and often unheralded work of “America’s best kept secret”: Family Resource Centers (FRCs). More than 3,000 community-based and school-based FRCs support families in urban and rural...
In this May 18, 2021 Funder-to-Funder session, Jessica Tsang, Ph.D., explained how Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s (CZI) investments seek to support the whole child through a lens of racial equity using practices based in the science of learning and development. Reach...
In this GLR Learning Tuesdays webinar, we explored why parent power is so important for changing education systems and achieving equitable learning recovery for students. Expert panelists from national and local parent-facing organizations shared strategies to build...
“By focusing on the safe, stable, and nurturing relationships (SSNRs) that buffer adversity and build resilience, pediatric care is on the cusp of a paradigm shift that could reprioritize clinical activities, rewrite research agendas, and realign our collective...
Funder-to-Funder Conversation
High-Quality Early Childhood Education
In this GLR Learning Tuesdays webinar, “250,000 Caring Adults, Rolling Out a New National Effort,” attendees had the chance to receive an early briefing on the National Partnership for Student Success, a new federal initiative that will deploy 250,000 caring adults as...
“Listening is truly one of our values, and it's so deeply, incredibly important to us, because we would not be here if it wasn't for the families that we serve. And it's so important for us always to understand what it is that our families are needing. How can we...
In this GLR Week 2023 session, United Way Worldwide, Ascend at the Aspen Institute and CGLR engaged a powerhouse of national and local leaders, including Ralph Smith of CGLR; Ayeola Fortune of United Way Worldwide; Camille Busette of the Brookings Institution and the...
In this GLR Week 2023 session, United Way Worldwide, Ascend at the Aspen Institute and CGLR engaged a powerhouse of national and local leaders, including Ralph Smith of CGLR; Ayeola Fortune of United Way Worldwide; Camille Busette of the Brookings Institution and the...
“This (grade-level reading) is not an initiative for us. This is going to be a new way of life, in which we're going to ensure that all of our kids are going to be [reading] on grade level. You cannot do that without parents as your partners. When I came in as...
This GLR Learning Tuesdays webinar focuses on the critical importance of creating deep relationships with families and caregivers to address the extraordinarily high levels of kindergarten chronic absence occurring in the aftermath of the pandemic.
