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This blog asks how we can promote attendance in Head Start, which expands access to early care and education for children from low-income households.

Chief of Party Dorothy Muroki reflects on five impactful years of the ICAN project in Uganda.

With the burdens of student debt falling disproportionately on Black students, this blog suggests new policy responses to address the inequities.

"We don’t have any food. They are going to take my kids! Can you help me?" The desperate plea of a mother came through my voicemail. It was dinner time; I had already left the office for the day. I had been working with this family for months to address several safety risk factors. It was a tough case, and my job as a Prevention Specialist with the Department of Social Services (DSS) was to keep this family safely intact. I felt the weight of this responsibility every day. I knew if I did not intervene, foster care would be imminent for the children. However, the call came during the few hours I slept between jobs. I made less than $30,000 per year at DSS and, to make ends meet, worked a second full-time job at a residential program for youth aging out of foster care.

Our thoughts on where the UK’s new international development strategy should focus for maximum impact, and why.

The need for governments at all levels to connect with citizens they serve and the means for doing so have evolved over the past decade.

This blog explains Abt’s approach to identifying the core components of effective programs and translating those core components into practice recommendations.

The blog explores the challenge of Head Start's teacher shortage amid the “back to school” season, and the need to address fair compensation for educators.

The data are in from U.S. Department of Education’s NAEP long-term trend reading and mathematics assessments—and it’s not good. This blog suggests some responses.

Public charter schools may operate independently of local district requirements, but a systems-thinking approach to leadership development still makes sense.