Coronavirus (COVID-19) Families, Communities, and Education

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The Avenue

What’s stopping automatic retirement savings for more workers?

Robert Maxim and Mark Muro

Friday, April 9, 2021

The Avenue

With federal aid on the way, it’s time for state and local governments to boost pay for frontline essential workers

Molly Kinder

Tuesday, April 6, 2021

Young 1ove organizer working to adapt the Teaching at the Right Level education intervention during COVID-19

Education Plus Development

A year later: Reflections on learning, adapting, and scaling education interventions during COVID-19

Tendekai Mukoyi, Molly Curtiss Wyss, and Jenny Perlman Robinson

Friday, April 2, 2021

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Events

Experts

Helen Shwe Hadani

Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Center for Universal Education

Fellow - Metropolitan Policy Program, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Center for Transformative Placemaking

@HelenSHadani

Molly Kinder

David M. Rubenstein Fellow - Metropolitan Policy Program

MollyKinder

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Center for Universal Education

Stanley and Debra Lefkowitz Faculty Fellow, Department of Psychology, Temple University

@KathyandRo1

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Podcast Episode

Post-pandemic priorities for education part I: The United States

Rebecca Winthrop

WISE Words

Friday, March 19, 2021

Podcast Episode

Education, disrupted

Jenny Perlman Robinson and Emiliana Vegas

New Foundations, The Economist Intelligence Unit

Monday, November 30, 2020

Podcast Episode

How the pandemic can accelerate scaling educational innovations

Rebecca Winthrop and Jenny Perlman Robinson

Silver Lining for Learning

Monday, October 12, 2020

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Techlash continues to batter technology sector

Darrell M. West

Friday, April 2, 2021

Infusing playful learning in cities: How to partner with communities for impact

Helen Shwe Hadani and Jennifer S. Vey

Thursday, April 1, 2021

A top-down view of a multiple-choice test on white paper and a pencil.

Standardized tests aren’t the problem, it’s how we use them

Andre M. Perry

Tuesday, March 30, 2021

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Teachers’ unions: Scapegoats or bad-faith actors in COVID-19 school reopening decisions?

Bradley D. Marianno

Thursday, March 25, 2021

Students stand 2 feet apart as they practice social distancing before walking into the cafeteria on the first day back to school after coronavirus disease (COVID-19) restrictions were adjusted, in Louisville, Kentucky,

Almost everyone is concerned about K-12 students’ academic progress

Anna Saavedra, Morgan Polikoff, Dan Silver, and Amie Rapaport

Tuesday, March 23, 2021

A female student learns with an educational app.

Looking for an educational life raft? Apps may not be the answer

Jennifer M. Zosh, Marisa Meyer, Jenny Radesky, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

Monday, March 22, 2021

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Coronavirus (COVID-19) Families, Communities, and Education

Guilty secrets: How the COVID-19 pandemic helped some middle class families

The economy that allows you to get your job done is broken

The COVID-19 cost of school closures in earnings and income across the world

Building back better: The promise of the American Rescue Plan for education

Reports

Ten economic facts on how mothers spend their time

A policy manifesto for paying, protecting, and empowering essential workers

One year in, COVID-19’s uneven spread across the US continues

Examining and addressing COVID-19 racial disparities in Detroit

After COVID-19: Building a more coherent and effective workforce development system in the United States

Blog Posts

What’s stopping automatic retirement savings for more workers?

With federal aid on the way, it’s time for state and local governments to boost pay for frontline essential workers

A year later: Reflections on learning, adapting, and scaling education interventions during COVID-19

Events

Essential workers: One year into the COVID-19 pandemic

How the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted higher education

Can family engagement be a gamechanger for education post-COVID?

Experts

Helen Shwe Hadani

Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Center for Universal Education

Fellow - Metropolitan Policy Program, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Center for Transformative Placemaking

Molly Kinder

David M. Rubenstein Fellow - Metropolitan Policy Program

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Center for Universal Education

Stanley and Debra Lefkowitz Faculty Fellow, Department of Psychology, Temple University

Multimedia

Post-pandemic priorities for education part I: The United States

Education, disrupted

How the pandemic can accelerate scaling educational innovations

More on Coronavirus (COVID-19) Families, Communities, and Education

Techlash continues to batter technology sector

Infusing playful learning in cities: How to partner with communities for impact

Standardized tests aren’t the problem, it’s how we use them

Teachers’ unions: Scapegoats or bad-faith actors in COVID-19 school reopening decisions?

Almost everyone is concerned about K-12 students’ academic progress

Looking for an educational life raft? Apps may not be the answer