I sat down with Beth Hawkins at The 74 to talk about our recent results on LGBT- and race-related issues in schools and what they mean for public education: the74million.org/article/74-int…

School Absenteeism Has Become A Big Problem. But We Can Do Something About It. forbes.com/sites/frederic…

Chronic absenteeism is a huge issue right now for parents and schools. This research article from Morgan Polikoff 🏳️‍🌈 Anna Rosefsky Saavedra Dan Silver provides a lot of food for thought on the challenges. We'll also have some survey data in the coming weeks to add to the picture.

Love it when I say something and then listen to it a month later and think "boy, I said that really well!" This is one of those times - this is a great quote (and funders should listen to me).

Thank you Human Restoration Project for this great conversation about our recent research! today.usc.edu/controversial-…

Anna Rosefsky Saavedra and I had the pleasure of sitting down with @CovingtonEDU for the Human Restoration Project podcast to talk about research on what Americans want from education and how schools should handle potentially fraught issues humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/how-d…

Where Americans Are — and Aren’t — Politically Divided on Education edsurge.com/news/2024-04-2… via EdSurge

I am speaking at Hewlett Foundation Education Grantee Convening. Please check out my talk if you're attending the event! - via #Whova event app

New research suggests families can be unaware of the extent of their child’s absences and aren’t concerned about them missing school. We speak with Dr Anna Rosefsky Saavedra about practical strategies for highlighting the importance of attendance with parents. teachermagazine.com/au_en/articles…

Drawing from some of our recent research Morgan Polikoff 🏳️‍🌈 and I wrote a commentary with concrete advice for managing disagreement about difficult topics--relevant for school districts as well as communities nationwide. edsource.org/2024/how-schoo…

It'd be great if everyone were more financially literate. But I'm voting against California's ballot initiative to mandate financial literacy education, and you should too // Financial Literacy Is Great. Mandating It With a Ballot Initiative Is Not The 74 the74million.org/article/financ…

With a new #IESfunded #NCER award, Anna Rosefsky Saavedra and colleagues CESR will evaluate Street Law's Talking About Local Current and Contested Issues in Schools that aims to prepare students for the rights and responsibilities of U.S. citizenship: ies.ed.gov/funding/grants…

Dr. Anna Saavedra, Principal Investigator from USC, emphasizes the importance of this study: “Now more than ever, schools need to be places where students are able to productively and respectfully discuss multiple perspectives about potentially contested topics."

Really exciting new report, out today from CESR and USC Rossier, with Amie Rapaport, Anna Rosefsky Saavedra, and Dan Silver. We're focusing on the UnderstandingAmerica data we have on children's mental health and its relationship with school outcomes. (PDF: cesr.usc.edu/documents/A_Na…) A thread:

Terrific new piece from Anna Rosefsky Saavedra and Amie Rapaport on what American adults know and don't know about education in the U.S. kappanonline.org/what-do-adults… PDK International

More outstanding coverage of our report from last week on kids' mental health and connections to absenteeism and other outcomes! // Stark Racial, Class Disparities in K-12 Mental Health Linked to Absenteeism The 74 the74million.org/article/stark-…

With adults reporting they learn about issues crucial to the #PublicEducation system mainly from personal experience, better information has the potential to improve U.S. education, researchers argue in the latest #kappanmag. Anna Rosefsky Saavedra kappanonline.org/what-do-adults…

So excited to have this work finally out there! We rated all 51 state school report cards for the availability of longitudinal data and for their general usability. What did we find? A short thread:

School contracts with outside vendors need to be equitably, and demonstrably, meeting students' needs. @https://www.the74million.org/article/equity-impact-transparency-rethinking-ed-vendor-contracts-after-esser/