Education

Academic Success for Students in Foster Care Begins with Strong Partnerships Between Child Welfare and Education Systems

July 6, 2022 | Aysha E. Schomburg, Associate Commissioner | Children’s Bureau and Ruth Ryder, Deputy Assistant Secretary | Office of Elementary and Secondary Ed The 2021-2022 school year has come to a close. As students begin their summer break, … Read More

Apple & Books

Save Our Education Now: An Emergency COVID-19 Education Plan to Get the Poorest and Most Marginalised Children Safely Back to School and Learning

Save Our Education Now: An Emergency COVID-19 Education Plan to Get the Poorest and Most Marginalised Children Safely Back to School and Learning. Save the Children. 2021 CLICK HERE

Homeschool

The Long-Term Distributional and Welfare Effects of Covid-19 School Closures.

Using a structural life-cycle model, we quantify the long-term impact of school closures during the Corona crisis on children affected at different ages and coming from households with different parental characteristics. In the model, public investment through schooling is combined … Read More

Education Is All In Your Mind

Education Is All In Your Mind New York Times OpEd Article, By RICHARD E. NISBETT Published: February 7, 2009. Richard E. Nisbett, a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan, is the author of Intelligence and How to Get It: … Read More

Solving the Data Puzzle – Collecting and Sharing Information Between Child Welfare and Education

For a complete manual and tools about information sharing between child welfare and education, please download Solving the Data Puzzle: A How To Guide Collecting and Sharing Information to Improve Educational Outcomes for Children in Out of-Home Care.

Fostering Connections – 2011 Webinar Series (Archived)

NCJFCJ offers a webinar series covering Fostering Connections and highlighting specific provisions and guidance around education and family-finding, designed for Model Courts and their teams (but open to others who are interested in the topics.) Fostering Connections 101: A Guide … Read More

Solving the Data Puzzle – Collecting and Sharing Information Between Child Welfare and Education

For a complete manual and tools about information sharing between child welfare and education, please download Solving the Data Puzzle: A How To Guide Collecting and Sharing Information to Improve Educational Outcomes for Children in Out of-Home Care.

Education Stability – Clarification Letter HHS & Dept. of Ed.

Legal Center for Foster Care and Education (www.fostercareandeducation.org) has vigorously advocated for effective implementation of the Fostering Connections Act since its passage in 2008. To that end, we have provided technical assistance at the federal, state, and local levels, including … Read More

Education During COVID-19: How Child Welfare Agencies Can Help. Legal Center for Foster Care and Education

 ABA Center on Children and the Law. 2020  CLICK HERE

Guidelines for Developing Data Sharing Agreements to Use State Administrative Data for Early Care and Education Research

This resource is intended to provide guidance to early childhood researchers to prepare data sharing agreements related to the use of administrative data from state agencies. A data sharing agreement is a formal document of agreement between two entities that … Read More