The Research-to-Policy Collaboration (RPC) has contributed to policy efforts spanning early childhood education to higher education, as well as issues affecting the teacher workforce. In working with congressional offices, RPC has contacted researchers in our network to understand how free community college may affect enrollment across higher education. Additionally, RPC has responded to policy priorities regarding the educational impacts of COVID-19–including disparate access to technology, and the unique impact of COVID-19 on certain student populations (e.g., linguistically diverse students, students in special education programs).
Education professionals in K-12 and higher education settings are at risk of leaving the profession, in part because of the stress and dissatisfaction from not being allowed to use their professional judgment to make sound educational decisions