The new research from the Curry School of Education shows children in home-based child care settings experience lower-quality care and lower school readiness compared to preschool attendees.

A study from researchers at UVA and Stanford University finds that replacing low-performing teachers in the Washington, D.C. schools led to increases in student achievement in math and reading.

Lauren Mims spent the summer in Washington, D.C. working on the new White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans.

The gains “signal a resurgence of interest in teaching in public schools as a respected and worthy career and the rising status of the teaching profession,” according to one of the study’s authors.