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Building a Professional Early Childhood Workforce Requires a 'Compensation-First' Approach
The benefits and costs of large-scale professionalization efforts in early childhood education (ECE) are not yet clear. And we know little about the implications of such policies for a workforce that already faces a great deal of instability. However, research on ECE professionalization offers some lessons.
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Apr 12, 2023
Brookings Institution's Brown Center Chalkboard
Daphna Bassok, Laura Bellows, et al.

Russia

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Putin's Latest Threats, U.S. Policy in the Middle East, Disaster Recovery: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on Russia's troop mobilization and the ongoing war in Ukraine, U.S. policy in the Middle East, building a more diverse teacher workforce, and more.
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Sep 23, 2022
Teachers and Teaching

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'Grow Your Own' Prep Programs Can Improve Diversity of the Teaching Workforce
Black and Hispanic educators are much more likely than white educators to say they plan to leave the profession, threatening to exacerbate an already overwhelming lack of diversity. Local, “grow your own” alternative teacher preparation programs can help to strengthen the diversity of the teaching workforce, as well as enable districts to address broader staffing challenges.
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Mar 9, 2022
The 74 Million
Benjamin K. Master, Christopher Joseph Doss @Chris_J_Doss
Teacher Training

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Teachers Lost Out on Professional Learning During the Pandemic. Here's How Summer Programs Could Help
For thousands of teachers across the United States, 2020 was a year of uncertainty. Many lacked access to their usual professional learning activities. Summer programs for students that also offer learning opportunities for teachers might help make up for lost time.
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Mar 5, 2021
The RAND Blog
Elizabeth D. Steiner @ED_Steiner, Laura Stelitano
Educational Equity

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Three Steps States Could Take to Make Sure Learning Is More Equitable Should Schools Close Again in the Fall
The quality of remote instruction depends on whether students can connect and interact with educators online. But poverty is a major driver of who gets high-quality online instruction and who doesn't. What can states do in this new reality?
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Jun 30, 2020
The RAND Blog
Julia H. Kaufman @juliahkaufman
Teacher Training

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Why a Lack of STEM Teachers Could Jeopardise the Canada 2067 Vision
The future of STEM learning depends heavily on a strong STEM teaching workforce. But education systems around the world face significant challenges attracting, training, and keeping STEM teachers.
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Nov 17, 2017
Canada 2067
Julie Belanger
Principals

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Improving School Leadership: What Works
There is evidence that having strong school leaders is instrumental for improving the quality of teaching. But resource constraints and pressure to spend money directly on students have left interventions focused on principals largely overlooked. However, the new Every Student Succeeds Act may be changing the script.
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Apr 28, 2016
The RAND Blog
Rebecca Herman, Susan M. Gates
Summer Learning

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Ask Me Anything: Catherine Augustine on Summer Learning
With summer now underway, RAND's Catherine Augustine hosted an
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Jul 3, 2014

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The COP decisionmaking process reflects its members' consensus views. And therein lies the problem. The Paris Agreement should have achieved the socially better outcomes of binding emissions control to finance and binding each country to its target of emissions and finance.…That it did not do so was because the coalitions' views prevailed rather than the social good.

Rafiq Dossani

Director, RAND Center for Asia Pacific Policy

Source: United Press International

Women have fought in wars for as long as humans have waged them. Yet that long history has been either lost or purposefully hidden, complicating efforts to expand women's military roles even as we have steadily gained greater equality in other fields.

Kayla M. Williams

Senior Policy Researcher

Source: Association of the U.S. Army

What Climate-Related Conflict Could Mean for U.S. Central Command

National Identity and the Origins of the War in Ukraine

Book Review: 'Forgotten Warriors: The Long History of Women in Combat' by Sarah Percy

Creating the Uncrewed-Centric Navy of the Mid–21st Century

The Safety and Security of the U.S. Maritime Environment

The Policy Currents Podcast

Developing Strategies for Summer Learning

Improving Psychological Wellbeing and Work Outcomes in the UK

Planning for the Rising Costs of Dementia

Helping Coastal Communities Plan for Climate Change

Teacher Training

Building a Professional Early Childhood Workforce Requires a 'Compensation-First' Approach

Putin's Latest Threats, U.S. Policy in the Middle East, Disaster Recovery: RAND Weekly Recap

'Grow Your Own' Prep Programs Can Improve Diversity of the Teaching Workforce

Teachers Lost Out on Professional Learning During the Pandemic. Here's How Summer Programs Could Help

Three Steps States Could Take to Make Sure Learning Is More Equitable Should Schools Close Again in the Fall

Why a Lack of STEM Teachers Could Jeopardise the Canada 2067 Vision

Improving School Leadership: What Works

Ask Me Anything: Catherine Augustine on Summer Learning

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