Across the U.S., states are finding creative ways to address thorny education policy challenges. The National Governors Association (NGA) Center for Best Practices is excited to launch this online clearinghouse to chronicle their efforts, so that states may benefit from each other's experiences and successes.

About This Site

This clearinghouse contains a collection of policy primers on emerging education policy issues in the states. Our goal is to disseminate best practices and research-based policy recommendations to states on topics such as racial/economic disparities in academic achievement (the “achievement gap”), turning around low-performing schools, and more.

In each education policy primer, we:

• Frame the policy problem.
• Identify what some states are already doing about that problem.
• Recommend actions and policies for states.
• Warn of potential pitfalls that states should avoid as they move forward.

Our first primer, “Closing the Achievement Gap,” is now available. (See below.)  Additional primers in this series will be published in coming months.