A new report from Education Northwest offers an early look at the implementation of developmental education reforms in Oregon. The report is based on a survey of...
In honor of Black History Month, Education Northwest is recognizing the contributions of African American educators and community leaders in our region who are doing...
The prevalence of childhood trauma in America has been studied for many decades. While exact numbers can be hard to pin down, research studies and community surveys...
A new study by Regional Educational Laboratory Northwest found Spanish-speaking students—the largest group of language minority students in Washington state—take...
Joyce Harris , community outreach manager at Education Northwest, received a lifetime achievement award from the Portland Human Rights Commission on Dec. 2 at the...
English learner students who were enrolled in Washington state public high schools between 2009-2010 and 2012-2013 took fewer advanced courses per school year than...
In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, which runs from September 15 to October 15 in the United States, Education Northwest celebrates the careers and service of four...
Join us as we look back on our first 50 years with a new video featuring the voices of Education Northwest staff members describing how their work connects to civil...
REL Northwest and the Institute of Education Sciences have released a study examining online credit recovery through the Montana Digital Academy (MTDA) , Montana’s...
A new report from REL Northwest examines the strategies used by six Montana schools with higher than average student passing rates in online credit recovery courses...
REL Northwest and the Institute of Education Sciences have released Getting It Right: Reference Guides for Registering Students with Non-English Names . For students...
A new study by Education Northwest examines the complexities community college students face when they transfer to four-year institutions. The 10-state study offers a...
Education Northwest Community Outreach Manager Joyce Harris has won the 2016 Outstanding Service to Oregon award given annually by the University of Oregon Department...
A REL Northwest study of developmental education (remedial, noncredit bearing courses) and college readiness of first-time students at the University of Alaska found...
U.S. Representative Suzanne Bonamici—whose Congressional district stretches from the west side of Portland all the way to the Oregon coast—spoke with Education...
Congratulations to Tacoma Public Schools Superintendent and Education Northwest Board Member Carla Santorno who received a 2016 Women in School Leadership Award at...
The education world is paying more attention than ever before to gaps in our students’ writing ability. What’s helping to close the gap at Roosevelt High School,...
The American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting bills itself as the world’s largest annual gathering of educational researchers, and while the...
Teaching in a rural and remote community can leave educators feeling cut off from the kind of collaboration and innovation that often happens in urban and suburban...
When we started the Northwest Matters blog a year and a half ago, we hoped our posts would contribute to the regional and national conversations about the most...
At last week’s Oregon Leadership Network (OLN) Fall Leadership Institute, more than 400 leaders and educators from OLN member districts and organizations gathered to...
In 2009, when Kaiser Permanente began offering a $2,000 scholarship—aimed largely at increasing college access and participation of students from diverse and/or...
“Many families in our community focus on day-to-day survival,” says Chris Spriggs, a high school English teacher in the Glenns Ferry School District located along the...
Although discipline disparities along racial and gender lines have gained increasing attention in recent years, students with disabilities are not always a part of...
The 46th annual National Indian Education Association (NIEA) Convention and Trade Show is taking place in Portland on October 14–16. NIEA is the premiere professional...
