Equity-Driven • Data-Centered • Student-Focused “Emotionally, it is harder to see students who look like me struggle, while higher-up administrators didn’t seem to truly care.”So says a Black teacher, summin… My son has started the fifth grade, and I couldn’t be prouder. Last spring, I wrote about my son’s challenges not being met in the third grade and how I had to… September 15 marks the start of National Hispanic Heritage month, when we honor the many cultural and economic contributions of Latinos, who comprise nearly on… So far, several Democratic presidential candidates have put forth various ambitious plans that could potentially help college students: from free college to ca… In order to get students outside of their comfort zones, they must have role models and teachers who are willing to do the same. Rural America is often starvin… As a White woman progressing through college and my internship at Ed Trust, I have come to understand the extent to which systemic racism permeates every aspec… My kid’s elementary school was located in an affluent part of town. But in a nondescript building about a mile away, there was a homeless shelter. So, unbeknow… Lifting the ban on Pell Grants for incarcerated students is one of Ed Trust’s policy priorities for higher education reauthorization, and we are proud to advoc… I often tell people that my English pronouns are they/them and that I identify as trans (specifically nonbinary). This is much more accessible than explaining … In the first installment of our new series, an African American, first-generation college graduate recalls the struggles of going to and paying for college whi… Sharif El-Mekki: Leading With Equity and JusticeMay 16, 2019 by Robin Harris On the first day of school at Mastery Charter Shoemaker, principal Sharif El-M… Delaware’s first African American attorney went before the state’s first Catholic judge in 1952 to ask that Delaware’s schools be desegregated. The judge agree… WASHINGTON (May 14, 2019) – “The Education Trust stands in opposition to the President’s revised budget proposal to further raid the Pell Grant reserve to fund… It’s Teacher Appreciation Week — a time to celebrate the amazing educators across the country who work tirelessly to challenge, support, and nurture our younge… I was born and raised in the central part of the Navajo Nation in a town called Chinle, which is near the Canyon De Chelly national monument in Arizona. For mo… When Tvli Birdshead, a senior at an Oklahoma high school was denied the freedom to wear his Native American regalia to graduation this spring, he decided to fi…Fierce advocates for the high academic achievement of all students — particularly those of color or living in poverty.
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