Department of Education

This report (PDF, 20 pages) provides tips to organizations and leaders serving young people and families about building developmental relationships with the youth they serve. Learn more (PDF, 20 pages). 

The Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan is an income-driven repayment (IDR) plan that calculates payments based on a borrower’s income and family size – not their loan balance – and forgives remaining balances after a certain number of years. Learn more. 

This webpage contains campaign materials encouraging members of the K-12 community to visit SchoolSafety.gov and use its resources and tools to create safe and supportive learning environments for students and educators. The webpage includes an animated video, communications toolkit, infographics, social media posts, and graphics. Learn more.  ...

This report (PDF, 26 pages) examines federal, state, and local efforts to improve mental health services in schools and communities. Learn more. 

This resource (PDF, 25 pages) is the second in a series of five briefs on the key considerations facing educational leaders as they work to build and sustain core digital infrastructure for learning. This brief highlights cybersecurity recommendations and promising practices from states and districts across the country. The series ...

This report (PDF, 65 pages) provides new information from the 2021–22 Principal Follow-up Survey (PFS) about attrition and mobility of public and private K–12 school principals during the 2021-22 school year. The report also provides information on principal attrition and mobility by selected principal and school characteristics, plans to remain ...

This study (PDF, 70 pages) examines findings from the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) School Climate Study. The study analyzes changes in school climate scores from a pre-pandemic year (2018/19) to the 2020/21 and 2021/22 school years, both of which were affected by COVID-19 and related policy changes. Learn more.  ...

The National Partnership for Student Success (NPSS) brings together experienced organizations to recruit, screen, train, support, and engage caring adults who serve as tutors, mentors, student success coaches, wraparound service coordinators, and postsecondary transition coaches. NPSS invites these groups to get involved in improving reading and math, high school and ...

This guide (PDF, 90 pages) helps researchers examine implementation when studying the effectiveness of education interventions to improve student outcomes. The guide provides recommendations and specific steps on planning, collecting, analyzing, and reporting essential data related to intervention components, implementation fidelity, context, and treatment-control contrast. Learn more.  ...

This report provides the first results of the 2019–2020 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:20), the most comprehensive national study of student financing of postsecondary education in the United States. The report describes the percentages of students receiving various types of financial aid and average amounts received by type of ...