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Policy and Legislation

Keeping Pregnant and Parenting Students From Dropping Out: A Guide for Policymakers and Schools

Publisher: 
Healthy Teen Network, National Women's Law Center

This guide for policymakers and schools explains how Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 protects pregnant and parenting students' rights to an equitable education.

Community Schools: Working Towards Transformation

Publisher: 
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

The reports explores the concept of community schools; the state of community schools, guiding frameworks for designing interventions at a community school; the process of school, family, and commu

Organized Communities, Stronger Schools: A Preview of Research Findings

Publisher: 
Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University

This report presents the findings of a six-year study on the impact of community organizing for school reform on student outcomes.

America's Cradle to Prison Pipeline

Publisher: 
Children

This report analyzes how risks such as lack of access to health and mental healthcare, child abuse or neglect, and lack of quality early childhood education often impact children at crucial points in their development, making involvement in the criminal justice system significantly more likely.

School Climate Challenge: Narrowing the Gap Between School Climate Research and School Climate Policy, Practice Guidelines, and Teacher Education Policy

Publisher: 
Education Commission of the States

A workgroup of national experts was formed to create this paper with background information and data on the history of school climate research, and the current status of school climate policy, prac

Center for Benefit-Cost Studies of Education

Publisher: 
Center for Benefit-Cost Studies of Education at Teachers College, Columbia University

This Web site offers studies and publications on the cost-benefit analysis of education investments such as early childcare, policy reform, professional development, educational vouchers, and teach

Lessons Learned: New Teachers Talk About Their Jobs, Challenges, and Long-Range Plans

Publisher: 
National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality and Public Agenda

This report is part of a three-part series that explores why new teachers enter the teaching profession, what their expectations are, and what factors contribute to their desire to stay in or leave

Models for Change: Systems Reform in Juvenile Justice

Publisher: 
National Center for Juvenile Justice

The Models for Change initiative is an effort to create successful and replicable models of juvenile justice system reform through targeted investments in key states.

Improving After-School Programs in a Climate of Accountability

Publisher: 
Society for Research in Child Development

This research brief is a summary of a longer report, “After-School Programs and Academics: Implications for Policy, Practice, and Research,” that examines program evaluation literature, observational studies, and statements of program standards for after-school programs.