When Christina McLean of Durham, North Carolina, realized her 9-year-old daughter, Lauren, was eligible for a program that will contribute $500 into a savings and investment account they can tap for education or career needs when Lauren turns 18, she was thrilled. “I...
My advice for people on the call is to make your voices heard at the state level about whether you like it or you dislike it or where you want them to improve upon it….I think it's really important that you advocate to your state leaders about your thoughts on the...
In this March 2, 2021 GLR Learning Tuesdays webinar, José Muñoz, who serves as the director of the Coalition of Community Schools at the Institute for Educational Leadership, described the four pillars of the community schools strategy ― collaborative leadership and...
This Learning Tuesdays conversation examined a rapidly shifting education policy landscape and what it means for early learning, literacy, and equity in 2026. Moderated by John Gomperts of CGLR, this session brought together national policy leaders to reflect on the...
This January 6, 2026 session rebroadcast the final session of our "Decoding NAEP" series from 2025 that engaged state chiefs, educators, parents, researchers, and advocates in a deep-dive exploration of the 2024 scores from the National Assessment of Educational...
In this Friday, July 17, 2020, GLR Week 2020 session, Hedy Chang, Executive Director and President of Attendance Works,moderated a conversation with leaders from Education Analytics and two states that have collaborated in developing the Rally Analytics Platform, an...
During this June 23, 2020 webinar, one of a new series focused on the Learning Loss Recovery Challenge, Barbara O’Brien of the Denver Public Schools Board of Education moderated a conversation exploring the strategies that state and local policymakers are considering...
On Wednesday, July 15, 2020, during GLR Week 2020 “fishbowl” discussion, United Way leaders in Delaware, Texas and Utah engaged in a lively dialogue around leveraging 211 as a resource for children and families in their specific communities and states, and the...
For more than 25 years, Early Head Start has worked to provide an enriched experience for young children during the critical early years of life when brain development occurs at an unparalleled pace. Despite this proven success, only 8 percent of children who are...
This rebroadcast picked up on our 8-session "Decoding NAEP" series from earlier this year that engaged state chiefs, educators, parents, researchers, and advocates in a deep-dive exploration of the 2024 scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress —...
In the fourth session of our series exploring the potential and implications of parents as curators of their children's education, Chelsea Waite with the Center on Reinventing Public Education moderated a conversation exploring the growth and characteristics of...
This session was a follow-on conversation from another session last May — also focused on Head Start — that was part of our “More Hopeful Futures or Children as Collateral Damage?” series. Across eight sessions, this series has sought to center children in the...
This October 29, 2019 GLR Learning Tuesdays webinar, was hosted in partnership with Sesame Workshop and Partnership for America’s Children. With 2 million young children missed or miscounted in the 2010 Census, affecting $160 billion in federal funding, this session...