Department of Education

The latest round of findings from the School Pulse Panel (SPP) is now available. These SPP data examine parental, staff, and student concerns for the 2021-2022 school year, the state of school food and nutrition programs, learning modes offered by schools, and COVID-19 mitigation strategies, including quarantine and masking. Learn ...

This report describes the course-taking patterns and academic performance of graduates from a national sample of U.S. public and private schools who also took the 2019 National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) twelfth-grade mathematics and science assessments. Learn more. 

This webpage provides tips for parents talking to their children about bullying as well as tips for youth talking to their parents about bullying. Videos and examples are provided. Learn more. 

This report (PDF, 71 pages) provides initial results from the 2020-2021 National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS). The NTPS collected data on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on public and private schools, principals, and teachers during the 2019–20 school year. The report presents selected findings, using preliminary data, from ...

This resource (PDF, 4 pages) presents a set of practices for both school administrators who directly support staff, and for classroom teachers and other staff who directly support students, to step back, clarify priorities, and strategize improvements. The selected practices identified by the National Center for Safe and Supportive Learning ...

This practice guide summarizes evidence-based, positive, and proactive practices that support and respond to students’ social, emotional, and behavioral (SEB) needs in classrooms and similar teaching and learning environments (e.g., small-group activity). Included are a self-assessment, examples of critical practices in elementary and secondary settings, scenarios that illustrate implementation, and ...

This one-pager (PDF, 1 page) offers a variety of resources K-12 school communities and students can use to stay safe online. Learn more (PDF, 1 page).

The Financial Aid Toolkit provides federal student aid information and outreach tools for counselors, college access professionals, nonprofit mentors, and other advisors. Learn more and explore the toolkit.

These FAQs (PDF, 57 pages) are intended to provide answers and examples of allowable uses of HEERF Institutional Portion grant funds for students’ basic needs, such as student, academic, financial, and mental health support. The lists provided are not exhaustive but illustrate the wide range of strategies institutions of higher ...

This report (PDF, 204 pages) is a compendium of 41 key indicators about America’s young people’ well-being and monitors changes in them. The indicators fall under seven domains: family and social environment, economic circumstances, health care, physical environment and safety, behavior, education, and health. Learn more (PDF, 204 pages). ...