Shut Out of The Military: More than one in five recent high school graduates is not academically qualified to enlist in the U.S. Army
Read moreFirst-Ever Public Analysis of National and State Data From the U.S. Armed Forces’ Entrance Exam Shows That Today’s High School…
Shut Out of the Military: Today’s High School Education Doesn’t Mean You’re Ready for Today’s Army
Read moreIn “Shut Out of the Military,” the first-ever public analysis of the Army’s Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB),…
Education Trust analysis of 2009 PISA results: United States is average in performance, but leads the world in inequity
Read moreTo close America’s global achievement gap, focus on gaps within our own bordersWASHINGTON (December 10, 2010) - Despite near-continuous…
Subprime Opportunity: high dividends, low baccalaureates at for-profit colleges
Read moreWASHINGTON (November 23, 2010) Three years after the U.S. housing market collapse, our country continues to suffer the…
Subprime Opportunity: The Unfulfilled Promise of For-Profit Colleges and Universities*
Read moreThree years after the U.S. housing market collapse, our country continues to suffer the effects of misplaced priorities and…
Broken Promises: For-Profit Colleges Fail Our Students
Read more“Subprime Opportunity: The Unfulfilled Promise of For-Profit Colleges and Universities,” a new report from The Education Trust, represents one…
Not Prepared for Class: High Poverty Schools Continue to Have Fewer In-Field Teachers
Read moreNearly a decade after federal law was enacted to ensure that low-income students and students of color had a…
Statement from The Education Trust on 12th-grade reading and mathematics results from the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress
Read moreWASHINGTON (November 18, 2010) The results released today from the 2009 12th-grade National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)…
A decade after passage of No Child Left Behind, America’s low-income students still disproportionately taught by out-of-field, inexperienced teachers
Read moreNew study from The Education Trust shows that problems are often most acute in suburbs, small townsWASHINGTON (November 18,…
Four public schools from across the U.S. to be honored with the 8th annual Dispelling the Myth Awards
Read moreK-12 Neighborhood Schools in Louisiana, New Mexico, North Carolina, Texas Proving Success is Possible For All StudentsWASHINGTON (November 3,…
Taking Charge of Change: Effective Practice to Close Gaps and Raise Achievement
Read moreKati HaycockThe Education Trust 2010 National ConferenceArlington, Virginia …
Graduation-Rate Gaps Persist Within Colleges, But Some Campuses Build Success for All Student Groups
Read moreCollege-completion gaps among individual institutions lurk under national averages, according to two new Ed Trust reports that probe disaggregated…
Big Gaps Small Gaps in Serving African-American Students
Read moreSome Colleges and Universities Do Better Than Others in Graduating African-American StudentsWe’ve been digging beneath the averages and looking…
Big Gaps Small Gaps in Serving Hispanic Students
Read moreSome Colleges and Universities Do Better Than Others in Graduating Hispanic StudentsTo improve degree attainment among Hispanic students,colleges and…
Reports reveal colleges with the biggest, smallest gaps in minority graduation rates in the U.S.
Read moreWASHINGTON (August 9, 2010) Two reports released today by The Education Trust - Big Gaps, Small Gaps: Some…
Statement from The Education Trust on President Obama’s speech at the National Urban League Centennial Conference
Read moreWASHINGTON (July 29, 2010) President Obama captured the essence of whats at stake for our country when he…
Ed Groups to Congress: “Don’t derail education reform”
Read moreWASHINGTON (June 30, 2010) - Over the past year, the Obama Administration's groundbreaking education-reform initiatives have reinvigorated and refocused…
Accountability for Results
Read moreThe best accountability systems in any field have a few things in common. They set clear goals for people to…
Read Why Congress Should Amend the Keep Our Educators Working Act
Read moreSix Reasons the Keep Our Educators Working Act Should be Amended to Require States Receiving Funds to End Seniority-Only…
Letter Urging Amendments to Keep Our Educators Working Act
Read moreRead the letter from Ed Trust and other reform advocates urging Congress to ensure the act's funds are used…