Audience: Policymakers

Rural Community Resource Hub

This website features news and resources related to the Coronavirus outbreak that is of particular importance to rural communities. The site is a collaborative effort informed by rural school administrators and leaders across the country and organized in partnership between Mara Tieken, Associate Professor of Education at Bates College and author of Why Rural Schools… Read More ›

Unleashing Your Innovative Genius: A Conversation with Deborah Olatunji

This is a transcript of an interview with Deborah Olatunji, a high school student from Delaware who recently authored a new book, Unleashing Your Innovative Genius: High School Redesigned, with the goal of igniting young people across the country to realize they have the power to transform education. The interview covers her educational journey including her… Read More ›

“It’s Our Right…”: The Opportunities Gained by Helping Students of Color Practice Resisting Racism

In this article, two authors discuss lessons they learned about supporting student activism during research for their book, Schooling for Critical Consciousness: Engaging Black and Latinx Youth in Analyzing, Navigating, and Challenging Racial Injustice. They share examples that illustrate the importance of supporting actions taken by students to protest rather than simply teaching about systemic… Read More ›

How We Can Help Our Children to Be “Disaster-resilient” & Why We Must

This webinar run by Embrace Race will look at the indirect effects of COVID-19 that could have long-term impacts on children, especially in socially, politically, economically and, often, racially marginalized communities. This conversation will focus on the ways in which the unfolding crisis might be affecting children’s mental health, and what educators, community members, and… Read More ›

The 3 Biggest Remote Teaching Concerns We Need to Solve Now

This article looks at three issues that have grown from the shift to remote learning in response to school closures due to COVID-19. In particular, it examines concerns over student privacy, accessibility of education technology materials for all students and equitable access to online learning technology and internet connection. This is a thoughtful piece for… Read More ›

Confronting the Coronavirus Outbreak

This section of the Usable Knowledge website brings together advice for educators during school closures due to COVID-19. Usable Knowledge is an online resource from the Harvard Graduate School of Education that aims to make education research and best practices accessible to educators, policymakers, members of the media, nonprofit leaders, entrepreneurs and parents. As such,… Read More ›

From Disruption Comes Change: Nurturing Sociopolitical Action with Youth

Hosted by Dr. Alfredo Palacios from the College of Education at Auburn University, the Theory of Change podcast is for counselors and counselor educators who are looking for inspiration and resources pertaining to the profession of counseling.   In this episode of the podcast, Dr. Carlos Hipolito-Delgado, an associate professor of counseling at the University of Colorado Denver, and a Student-Centered Learning Research Collaborative grantee, discusses his research on sociopolitical… Read More ›

Bridging Digital Divides Between Schools and Communities

The paper looks at the gap between internet connectivity at schools and within under-resourced, low-income communities, which is often referred to as the homework divide. The author looks at data collected from schools in two different cities—Marion, Alabama, and Phoenix, Arizona, where access at school is high due to participation in the ConnectED initiative, a… Read More ›

COVID-19 Racial Equity & Social Justice Resources

This portion of the Racial Equity Tools website was put together to help community leaders address the COVID-19 pandemic with social justice and equity lens. It features links to resources on analysis of the big picture, community care, organizing and solidarity, resource building and rapid response and virtual work and engagement. It also includes links… Read More ›

10 Reasons Edtech Works Sometimes, But Not All the Time

This article outlines the plans of the EdTech Genome Project, a collaborative effort of more than 100 education research and advocacy organizations, to research the contextual factors that impact education technology (ed-tech) implementation. The organization identified the ten factors hypothesized to have the greatest influence, such as adoption plans and school culture. They are now… Read More ›

Scaling is All the Rage, but How Do You Make It Happen?

It’s fall 2017 in New Hampshire. The state’s Performance Assessment for Competency-based Education (PACE) system is entering its third year. Using this alternative state accountability system, 150 teachers in nine school districts have created 14 performance assessment tasks in mathematics, English language arts (ELA) and science. The tasks have been validated against standardized state tests… Read More ›