Providing meals for all students, and using meal times as a way to promote learning, is a policy many top-performing systems use to ensure that all students are healthy and ready to learn.
California’s new plan of providing funds for low-income students to save for post-secondary education is a strategy used by some top-performing countries such as Canada.
In this interview, Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Jal Mehta argues that our current system of schools—designed in the early 20th century industrial era—need to become modern organizations capable of supporting deeper learning for all students.
The urgency of restarting economies has accelerated efforts around the world to provide broader access to high quality child care.