New Report: A Look at Latino Student Success
The Education Trust just released A Look at Latino Student Success: Top- and Bottom-Performing Institutions, a report examining graduation…
The PROSPER Act Would Move Our Nation’s Higher Education System Backward
A bill proposed last week by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) to renew the Higher Education Act (HEA) undermines its…
The ASPIRE ACT: Improving Student Outcomes and Equity in Higher Education
Colleges and universities are under increasing pressure to demonstrate their value to an increasingly skeptical public. Low graduation rates,…
Can Equity Be Bought? Five Components of a Smart Outcomes-Based Funding Policy
While performance- or outcomes-based policies emerged in the late 1980s as an opportunity for colleges and universities to earn…
Can Equity Be Bought? Advocating for Equity Focused Performance Funding in Kentucky
Policymakers in Kentucky, like other states across the nation, have an opportunity through the adoption of a performance based…
Can Equity Be Bought? Minority-Serving Institutions and Outcomes-Based Funding
Most performance- or outcomes-based funding (POBF) models seek to address accountability and not equity, so they do not always…
Can Equity Be Bought? HBCUs and Outcomes-Based Funding
Performance- or outcomes-based funding is intended to drive more equitable opportunities and outcomes in higher education. But in our…
Can Equity Be Bought? A Look at Outcomes-Based Funding in Higher Ed
More than 30 states now have adopted or are in the process of adopting a formula that divvies out…
The Dream Act: Lifting Limitations on Students’ Unlimited Potential
Nearly two months have passed since the Trump administration announced plans to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals…
Debunking 5 Myths about Affirmative Action
Less than two years after the Supreme Court upheld the Fisher vs. University of Texas case on affirmative action,…
FY18 Appropriations: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly + What’s Next
Over the past two weeks in D.C., there has been a lot of action on the Hill on the…
Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month
Today marks Chile’s Independence Day and the first full week of Hispanic Heritage Month celebration — a time when…
Dear White People: We’ve Always Had Affirmative Action
“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”—Gloria SteinemDear White People,Days ago, I, like…
On Charlottesville: Race Matters, But Facts Do Too
Deadly protests this weekend by torch-carrying White nationalists at the University of Virginia and in the city of Charlottesville,…
Welcoming Our New Team Members
We are thrilled to announce a number of new additions to our team, as we work toward growing our…
Putting Profits Over Students
John B. King Jr., Ed Trust President and CEO and former U.S. Secretary of Education, teamed up with fellow…
To OASIS Leaders in Memphis: ‘This Is Civil Rights Work’
“This is the story of a people, of hopes and dreams, of challenge and change. It is an American…
Honoring Pell’s Legacy
This week marks the 45th anniversary of the creation of the Pell Grant. Sen. Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island…