Stop Blaming Students
A recent Education Week headline brought my scanning eyes to a screeching halt: “High School Poverty, Minority Enrollment, Undermine…
Recognizing the Voices of Black Teachers
“The first step on the road to justice is to provide the oppressed with a voice to tell their…
More students are graduating but that’s not the whole story
By Emily Richmond, October 17, 2016As federal education officials tout a fourth consecutive year of improvement in the nation’s…
In Passing the Baton to the Next Champions for Equity
This is a speech delivered at the PIE Network’s Annual Meeting earlier this month.I’m something of a newspaper junkie.…
Middle-Grades Students Are Up for Discussion — And That Might Be Just What America Needs Right Now
Middle school, where Mercury is in constant retrograde.Where we quarantine America’s young adolescents in a humid petri dish of…
Ed Trust Assignment Analysis: From Then to Now — to You
As educators work to implement new standards and improve instruction, Ed Trust offers a resource for examining classroom assignments…
What Do Black Teachers Say?
A couple of recent reports have utilized national survey data to raise critical questions about why teachers of color…
Tackling Achievement Gaps From Summer Learning Loss
A well-designed summer program can help low-income students read and do math better. In fact, attending a summer program…
Black and Proud: MLK, BLM, and Today’s Education Reformers
This piece was originally published in New America’s digital magazine, The New America Weekly. Sunday marked the 53rd anniversary of…
Letting Students Take the Lead
Last school year, our principal invited me to take part in instructional rounds — an observation-based approach to better…
What Students Have to Gain From the Arts
“The simple fact is, every child in this country needs and deserves access to the subjects that go into…
Love Isn’t All We Need In America Right Now
In the online comment section under news articles on recent shootings of and by police are missives from pained,…
Letter to America: Achieving Racial Justice Is a Job for All of Us
“Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog…
New Video Highlights Key Components of ESSA
Curious about what’s in the Every Student Succeeds Act, or ESSA, the new education law that replaced No Child…
Present in the Story of Student Absenteeism
The data on chronic student absenteeism released earlier this month by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil…
Want to Know How Well Students Are Performing in Your State? Check Out Our Updated Interactive Tool!
Do you know how well students are performing in your state? Are they faring better or worse than students…
A Tale of Two Seventh-Graders
The following story is adapted from our Equity in Motion convening, when Sonja Brookins Santelises — our outgoing vice…
Achievement and Opportunity in America (and California): Critical Roles for School and District Leaders
Kati HaycockCEOThe Education TrustCalifornia Academic Partnership ProgramCalifornia State University, Long BeachCDP Summer Learning Interested in using The…
Classroom Training Wheels Are Not Forever
Our latest analysis of classroom assignments found a troubling mismatch in the level of rigor demanded by high standards…
Why Assignments Matter
The room was buzzing with the energy of September, although it was late spring. For two days, more than…