Online learning, teaching and education continuity planning for schools

whitePaper | March 10, 2020

We have compiled this set of resources to support remote learning using Minecraft: Education Edition, including a guide to getting started with Minecraft, STEM curriculum and project-based learning activities so educators can use the platform to deliver assignments and keep students engaged, even if they can’t play and learn together in the same room. Minecraft: Education Edition is a game-based learning platform that builds STEM skills, unleashes creativity and engages students in collaboration and problem-solving.

whitePaper | February 14, 2020

Establish a $5 billion annual matching grant to help states address unmet need and improve student outcomes. This “federal-state partnership” would reward states based on measures of affordability, tax effort, and productivity. States would be required to use these grant funds to reduce unmet need or improve outcomes among low- and middle-income students. 2. Increase mandatory Pell funding by $9 billion per year, with expanded eligibility for middle-income households and capped at the fourth income quartile. This would reduce unmet need for low- and middle-income students, making higher education more affordable and accessible.

whitePaper | July 17, 2020

Once you know how to read, it feels so natural that it is easy to take for granted as an innate skill we all possess—kind of like riding a bicycle and forgetting you had to learn how. Yet, we continue to see a growing crisis of illiteracy across our education system, with students at every grade level falling behind in reading test scores.

whitePaper | June 7, 2022

In January, 1997, after serving for 19 years as President of the American Association for Higher Education (AAHE), I began a new assignment as Director of Education for the Pew Charitable Trusts—a Philadelphia-based national foundation that makes grants in six major program areas. My immediate predecessor had focused the Education Program’s $35 million annual budget largely on K-12 issues.

whitePaper | September 1, 2022

The pandemic has made clear that in order for higher education to respond to new challenges, it needs to be highly adaptive. One of the most exciting areas in this regard is virtual education. This whitepaper will examine the current state of virtual education, evaluate its challenges and opportunities, and share big ideas about strategy recommendations that institutions should consider for the road ahead.

whitePaper | March 31, 2023

California’s “alternative schools” are publicly funded schools designed to provide a different educational setting from traditional public schools. Students placed in alternative schools include students who have faced discipline such as expulsion or suspensions of ten or more days in a school year; students impacted by incarceration and probation contact; students with histories of missing school; and students in need of credit recovery. Alternative schools may also enroll high concentrations of students with disabilities, students with experiences in the foster system, and students who have experienced homelessness