Project Appleseed, the national campaign for public school improvement

“As is too often the case, traditionally underserved students — including students with disabilities, Black and Latino students, multilingual learners, students from low-income backgrounds, and students in rural communities — will bear the greatest burden created by this reckless decision, to which the disability and civil rights communities have already been vehemently opposed,” EdTrust, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, told The Associated Press.

Trump takes special education, civil rights oversight away from Education Department The Trump administration on Tuesday announced that special education and civil rights oversight would no longer be helmed by the Department of Education.  Instead, the Department of Justice (D…

This 30-minute public television program, produced by Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Midwest, explores factors that influence chronic absenteeism and features strategies to strengthen engagement and improve attendance. The program highlights the experiences of students and educators at Ralph H. Metcalfe Community Academy and Carver Military Academy in Chicago Public Schools.

Rebuilding Routine: Solving the post-pandemic attendance crisis (REL Midwest) This 30-minute public television program, produced by Regional Educ...

Parents are the experts on their children and their most important advocates, but they can’t solve a problem they don’t know exists. As research and practice have shown, engaging families is a powerful strategy to achieve improved student and school outcomes, whether the goal is reducing absenteeism or boosting student achievement.

The Power of School-Home Partnerships - NAESP Parents can’t help solve a problem they don’t know exists.

Why U.S. Test Scores Are in a ‘Generation-Long Decline’ The drops go beyond the pandemic and cut across income, geographic and racial divides, new data shows.

Across academia, the outage set off panic and confusion as students and faculty members found themselves locked out of a platform they rely on to manage grades and access course notes and assignments. Colleges scrambled to reschedule final exams as students lost any way to access materials they needed to study.

Canvas system is online after a cyberattack disrupted thousands of schools A key online learning system used by thousands of schools and universities is back after a cyberattack knocked it offline, creating chaos as students tried to study for finals.

Project Appleseed President Kevin Walker had the opportunity to work with a dozen schools across Baltimore County Public Schools this month. At Bear Creek Elementary, he partnered with staff and families to strengthen engagement—and they surprised him with a birthday cake. A thoughtful and memorable moment, and another reminder of why he loves public schools.