Equity-Driven • Data-Centered • Student-Focused Seaford, Delaware, was the “Nylon Capital of the World” until DuPont closed its plant. Today it has twice the rate of poverty as the rest of the state. For yea… Think students today can work their way through college? Think again.For millions of college-going students, one of the most urgent concerns is the rising cost… For more than 15 years, Caroline Sanchez Crozier has served as the Illinois Education Chair for the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the oldes… Two recent studies, one about the state-funded Tennessee Voluntary Pre-K program and another from the University of Chicago, have breathed new life into the on… Historically, early childhood educators have often been women of color who have had a wide range of educational backgrounds, and as a whole have been more raci… At a young age, I became conscious of issues of equity. My family emigrated in 1981 from El Salvador — a country that was torn apart by a civil war caused by i… More Latinos are going to college than ever before, but as Joscelyn Guzman, a first-generation Mexican-American learned firsthand, getting there is the first o… In the past four years, my life has transformed for the better. I am a newlywed with a full-time job and working toward a bachelor’s degree in nonprofit manage… “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… 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 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…Fierce advocates for the high academic achievement of all students — particularly those of color or living in poverty.
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Seaford, Delaware: Fast Improvement in Delaware
How Affordable Are Public Colleges in Your State?
Profile in Education Equity: Caroline Sanchez Crozier, LULAC
The Importance of High-Quality Early Childhood Education (ECE) for Black and Latino Children
5 Things That Policymakers Can Do to Improve Early Childhood Education (ECE)
Why I Teach Where I Teach: To be a Positive Light for Latino Students
Getting To & Through College: Joscelyn Guzman
Second Chances are Real — Let’s Make Sure More Students Get Them
Why Teachers of Color Leave
When a School Meets a Child’s Individual Needs
Reconciling Your School’s Racist History
Free and Reduced-Price Lunches Are Essential to a Child’s Education
What Happens When Incarceration Meets Education
Student Voices: Hearing and Supporting Native/Indigenous Students
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