School Buildings Were in Trouble Even Before COVID-19
Many public school buildings are in need of major repairs, especially in low-income communities, impacting learning and the health of students, faculty, and staff.
Holly Lebowitz Rossi
Freelance Writer
The Coming Child Care Crisis
The U.S. stands to lose 4.5 million child care slots, disproportionally impacting low-income families and children.
Elliot Haspel
Author of 'Crawling Behind: America’s Child Care Crisis and How to Fix It'
Lessons From Disaggregating Data in Los Angeles Unified School District
Why should districts expand (by a lot) the ways students can identify who they are?
Joel Serin-Christ
Author
How Did School Lunch Become a Staple for American Kids?
It started with some concerned women and a one-penny meal in Philadelphia.
Tim Kennedy
Closing the Financial Literacy Gap
Educators and academics expose equity gaps in financial literacy education and offer solutions for ensuring all students have access to personal finance.
Laura Zingg
Editorial Project Manager, One Day Studio
Advocating in Partnership With Alumni and Students
Recently, TFA staff and alumni—as well as some Seattle students—gathered in Olympia, Washington, to meet with state legislators and advocate for their education priorities.
The TFA Editorial Team
A Guide to Understanding Education Research, from Regression to Discontinuity
One Day talks with Elias Walsh, who has mastered the lingo of educational research so that it's not just understandable, but surprisingly useful.
A Teacher’s Future Hangs on a Supreme Court Case
While he waits for the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a teacher serenades his community.
Faviola Leyva
Video Producer
Undefeated: Inside Five Baltimore Turnaround Schools that Refuse to Fail
A promising Charm City collaboration is founded on a stubborn refusal to give up on the notion of a great neighborhood school. No one has said the job is done, but neither are its leaders short on endurance.
Leah Fabel
Holding on to Hope With DACA's Future at Stake
Miriam Gonzalez Avila, a teacher and Teach For America alum, filed a lawsuit to save DACA. Now the Supreme Court is set to hear her case.