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The Learning Policy Institute's teacher shortage research has found one-time bonuses draw applicants but do little for retention on their own. Districts choosing between incentive structures need to know which problem they're actually solving.
Stanford's National Student Support Accelerator has published the clearest research on what makes tutoring actually work: high dosage, consistent tutor-student relationships, and alignment to classroom content. That evidence, not price alone, should drive the build-or-buy decision.
The National Association of Charter School Authorizers publishes the performance framework most authorizers use to judge renewal. Boards that only look at it during the renewal application year are reading the signal years too late.
The National Council on Teacher Quality has documented a shift among districts away from automatic master's-degree pay bumps toward portfolio- and performance-based advancement. The math and the effort look different depending on which system a teacher's district actually runs.
CoSN's annual EdTech leadership survey has repeatedly found device refresh cycles ranked among the top budget pressures technology directors face. Replacing too early wastes money; replacing too late costs instructional time. Here is how to find the line.
A GAO review of school facility conditions found many districts routinely defer major repairs, which shifts cost into the future at a markup. Boards deciding whether to ask voters for a bond need a clearer way to compare that math than intuition.
Research funded by the Wallace Foundation found that principal quality is second only to teaching among school-based factors that affect student learning. Search committees who treat the hire as a credentials check, rather than a fit and readiness assessment, get that decision wrong more often than the stakes justify.
One rough year does not automatically mean a curriculum failed, and a second rough year does not automatically mean it should be scrapped. Curriculum offices that separate implementation problems from design problems make better renewal calls.
Students already use AI search assistants for homework research, with or without a librarian's blessing. Media specialists who evaluate these tools systematically, rather than banning or endorsing them by instinct, protect students better.
AI-detection tools promise to catch machine-written homework, but the research on their accuracy is thin and uneven. Here is the evaluation checklist a curriculum office should run before signing a contract.