What Takes Up School Superintendents’ Time? Depends On the Size of The District – new RAND survey: rand.org/pubs/research_…

New report: Teachers who instruct their students in SEL are more likely to report that their schools have a positive school climate and that students are interested in learning. rand.org/pubs/research_… #edutwitter #teaching

One in six K12 teachers nationally works in a district that has been touched by gun violence since the 2019-2020 school year. A new RAND asked teachers across the U.S. about school safety in general and active shooter drills in particular. rand.org/pubs/research_…

Locals, average temps for the 2024 summer season were either 0–2 or 2–4 degrees F above normal across the Mid-Atlantic region. Dulles Airport (IAD) saw its hottest summer season on record. See the latest @MidAtlanticRISA data: midatlanticrisa.org/climate-summar…

How do school districts prepare and develop school principals? Assistant principalship is the main pathway in large and medium districts but not in small districts. New RAND American School District Panel survey: rand.org/pubs/research_… #edutwitter

New research: More than *14 million* Americans provide daily care to wounded, ill, or injured military service members or veterans. We just released a major new report that explores the challenges these hidden heroes face—and how to help them. 🧵 bit.ly/3Bh9It9

For college, career & civic life success, students need to be taught critical thinking, problem-solving & collaboration. New RAND survey summarizes how district leaders believe these skills are best developed in their middle and high schools rand.org/pubs/research_…

Disaster-related rumors spread at an alarming speed on social media, which greatly compounds the challenges of emergency responders. Here's RAND checklist with practical guidance on crafting & posting effective, fact-based social media messages rand.org/pubs/commentar…

Per RAND's Umut Ӧzek: our study should assuage concerns by state and federal policy makers that large inflows of recent immigrants may be overwhelming school districts and harming classroom achievement.

New RAND report details how educational leaders organize practices and policies to support social-emotional well-being for their students, a priority due to concerning mental health and well-being outcomes for adolescent youth rand.org/pubs/research_… #k12 #edutwitter

Excited to share our latest paper: Social-Emotional Well-Being for High School Students: Guidance for School and System Policy and Practice rand.org/pubs/research_… via RAND with Jeff Walls Brief thread on our top takeaways. 1/6

The conflation of opinion and fact "can be tied to our growing political polarization, and how we too often fail to communicate respectfully in our society," says RAND's Ray Block. bit.ly/48n6yjW

Great Jill Barshay story about a recently released RAND report on students taking Algebra I in the 8th grade. I got to comment on the report in a recent webinar & make the argument that ... 1/2 hechingerreport.org/proof-points-e…

NEW RAND survey: 65% of teachers nationally reported taking on extra work, but one in four said they were not paid for their extra work. Teachers who were paid for extra work reported small earnings—about 4 percent of base pay. rand.org/pubs/research_…

New RAND case studies for Cape Town, Melbourne, São Paulo, Las Vegas & New Orleans provide insight into preparing for and ultimately avoiding future water supply crises by building a systems approach to urban water security. rand.org/pubs/research_…

80% of public school-based pre-K teachers don’t rely on a single curriculum—they mix and match materials to meet students’ needs. Read the RAND American Pre-K Teacher Survey report to learn more. #EducationInsights #WOYC25 rand.org/pubs/research_…

New survey data: Educator Turnover Continues Decline Toward Prepandemic Levels: Findings from the American School District Panel rand.org/pubs/research_… via RAND

How does do policies on reading instruction mesh with elementary teachers’ instructional practices? More than 40 states have laws requiring that reading instruction take into account recent research on the science of reading. New RAND survey: rand.org/pubs/research_…

New survey: nearly 2x as many public school–based pre-K teachers experienced job-related stress as similar working adults, also earning nearly $7K less in base pay, on average, than public K–12 teachers & about $24K less than similar working adults rand.org/pubs/research_…