Jenny Anderson and Amanda Shendruk disseminate results of Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) for its 2018 cycle under various themes across countries. They emphasize that similar to the previous cycle of PISA, China and Singapore ranked top in math, science, and reading. The article also stated that Estonia performed significantly better than its performance in the prior cycle.

Authors Louis Volante and Francesca Borgonovi looks back into the long discussed topic of gender disparity in learning outcomes. They refer to the recent PISA studies and convey that things are changing, and the gap is closing up. However, the interesting problem is that, it is not the boys who are necessarily doing better, rather it is the performance of the girls that has declined.

In this article author Adam Carey explain how the gap of schooling quality between the wealthy and the poor is increasing over time with respect to teacher shortages. Research shows that students from disadvantaged schools  are more than five times more likely to have their learning disrupted due to teacher absenteeism.

The AERA-NSF Grants Program is currently accepting proposals for both its Dissertation and Research Grants. With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Program provides dissertation grants to graduate students and small research grants to doctoral level scholars using large-scale data sets in their research.

Sabine Meinck and Agnes Stancel-Piątak explain in their blog the importance of early childhood education, and the factors that encourage early childhood learning. The blog post refers to their article 'Preparing the ground: The importance of early learning activities at home for fourth grade student achievement' in which they disseminate their findings basing on data from TIMSS and PIRLS studies.