From the Classroom to the Polls: The Importance of Student Voting
Read moreAs the 2020 presidential election comes closer, the stakes are especially high to get out the vote. While voter turnout in the 2018 midterms hit a 50-year high…
What Happens When Incarceration Meets Education
Read moreLifting 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…
What It Means to Be Nonbinary and How to Be an LGBTQ Ally
Read moreI often tell people that my English pronouns are they/them and that I identify as trans (specifically nonbinary). This is much more accessible than explaining …
Higher Education Behind and Beyond Bars: A Father and Son Story
Read moreI sat with my back pressed into cold, hard wood as I stared into the big brown eyes across the table. He looks so much like me, I thought. Eight years old and …
Getting To & Through College: Tiffany Jones
Read moreIn the first installment of our new series, an African American, first-generation college graduate recalls the struggles of going to and paying for college whi…
Broken Mirrors: 6 Takeaways on Black Student Representation at Public Colleges and Universities
Read moreIt’s commencement season. As we honor the thousands of graduating students getting their diplomas, we should pause to consider those who didn’t get the opportu…
Student Voices: Hearing and Supporting Native/Indigenous Students
Read moreI 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…
The Forgotten Children: Students Who Have an Incarcerated Parent
Read moreThere are 1.5 million people in federal and state prisons and another 600,000 in local jails. More than half (54 percent) of these incarcerated adults have chi…
Profile in Education Equity: Operation Restoration
Read moreSyrita Steib-Martin and Annie Freitas cofounded Operation Restoration, a New Orleans-based organization that helps women who have been impacted by incarceratio…
How Education Can Better Serve the Modern-Day Student
Read moreFor nearly six years, Reid Setzer has been at Young Invincibles, where he most recently served as director of public policy. Now, this one-time Jeopardy! runne…
Serving Healthy School Food While Preparing Young Adults for Culinary Careers
Read moreTucked away in the back of a dilapidated, blue and gray building in downtown Washington lies DC Central Kitchen. It may not look like much, but the bustling so…
The Incredible Whiteness of Higher Education
Read moreWhile the U.S. becomes less White, and Black and Latino segments of the population rapidly expand, state economies are increasingly relying on a well-educated,…
Educational Justice Can’t Wait
Read moreQ&A with Denise Forte, Senior Vice President, Partnerships and EngagementEd Trust is thrilled to welcome Denise Forte as senior vice president, Partnership…
Aiming for Equity: A New Resolution for Statewide Degree Attainment Goals
Read moreIt’s a new year — a time for bold resolutions and renewed commitments. January also marks the start of new legislative sessions in D.C. and in state houses acr…
What Should Be on the 116th Congress’ To-Do List?
Read moreNow that 2019 is here, we have a better sense of what things will look like in D.C. for the next two years. With Democrats taking the House, Rep. Bobby Scott (…
Voting vs. Activism: Black College Students Weigh In
Read moreThe 2018 midterm elections are almost here, and early voting has already begun in some states. Voter enthusiasm is at an all-time high—many are calling it the …
Q&A with Erika McConduit, Louisiana Director, The Education Trust
Read moreWhy are you so passionate about social justice in education?Social justice is something that has been a part of me throughout my life. I grew up in New Orleans…
10 Key Takeaways on Degree Attainment for Latino Adults
Read moreAs we stated previously, there are many benefits to having a college degree, both on an individual and societal level. Noting the economic and social benefits …
7 Key Takeaways on Degree Attainment for Black Adults
Read moreThe individual benefits of earning a college degree are well known, but the larger social benefits that are associated with a better educated population are of…
3 Ways States Can Improve Degree Attainment for Blacks and Latinos
Read moreIn the U.S., if you are Black, you are two-thirds as likely to hold a college degree as someone who is White; if you are Latino, you are half as likely. While …
