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Strategies to Solve Unfinished Learning
When the pandemic forced schools across the country to close their doors in March 2020, many district and school leaders worked quickly to plan for and address…
School Funding Guidebook
This interactive workbook provides a structure to help your team better understand what is causing challenges related to School Funding and identify concrete n…
Teacher Quality and Diversity Guidebook
This interactive workbook provides a structure to help your team better understand what is causing challenges related to Teaching Quality & Diversity and i…
Right Direction. Miles to Go.
Over the past few years, Washington has experienced significant job growth — so much so that Washington had the fastest growing economy in 2018. During the sam…
Is Your State Prioritizing Teacher Diversity & Equity?
Access to a racially and culturally diverse teacher workforce is beneficial for all P-12 students, particularly for students of color, who often thrive in clas…
Building Back for Equity: Guidance to Inform 2021 Early Childhood Grantmaking
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated longstanding systemic and structural inequities in early childhood, particularly for Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and low-i…
“And they cared”: How to Create Better, Safer Learning Environments for Girls of Color
All across the country, girls of color are excluded from school for subjective offenses like these, missing out on critical class time and opportunities to lea…
Resource Equity Diagnostic
This comprehensive diagnostic is designed to help district leaders identify opportunities to improve equity and excellence by scoring your school system across…
The Education Combination
Drawing on both research and the lived experiences of students, parents, and educators from across the country, this paper describes how the right combination …
SEAD Through a Race-Equity Lens
Social, emotional, and academic development (SEAD), is a holistic approach to supporting students that is gaining momentum across the country.Existing research…
Inequities in Advanced Coursework
Black and Latino students across the country experience inequitable access to advanced coursework opportunities. They are locked out of these opportunities ear…
5 Things to Advance Equity in Access to and Success in Advanced Coursework
Use data to identify the barriers that prevent students of color and students from low-income families from enrolling in advanced courses and take action S…
5 Things to Advance Equity in Access to Strong and Diverse Educators
Set – then meet – clear goals at the state and district level to increase access to strong and diverse educators Target resources to the districts and scho…
Young Learners, Missed Opportunities
High-quality early childhood education (ECE) is important to the rapid development that happens in the first five years of a child’s life and has long-lasting …
If You Listen, We Will Stay
A majority of the nation’s public school students are students of color, but less than 20% of teachers are teachers of color — and only 2% are Black men. While…
Webinar Series: School Improvement Under ESSA: What You Need to Know to Engage
In the summer of 2018 The Education Trust hosted a series of webinars exploring evidence-based practices and policies that can drive improvement in struggling …
School Counselors Matter
As part of a school support team, school counselors provide critical social-emotional and academic supports. Through a comprehensive school counseling program …
Motivation and Engagement in Student Assignments
When students have the opportunity to attend classes that are engaging, creative, and relatable to their lives, they are more likely to succeed academically. U…
Checking In: Are Math Assignments Measuring Up?
Nearly every state includes measures of college- and career-readiness in their accountability plans under the Every Student Succeeds Act, and the quality of cl…
Funding Gaps 2018
School districts that serve large populations of students of color and students from low-income families receive far less funding than those serving White and …
