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Separate and Unequal Is Hurting America’s Children. It’s Time to Invest in Education and Integration on Behalf of Every Student.

Neera Tanden

Jun 06 2018
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In the 50 years since the Kerner Report was released, our country has struggled to fulfill its mission — and perhaps nowhere has this fight been more evident than in our classrooms, observes Center for American Progress President and CEO Neera Tanden. In the latest Education and the Path to Equity blog Tanden says we must invest in every school and take decisive steps toward integration.

Topics Equitable Resources and Access, Accountability and Improvement, Educator Quality
Video

Video Address: Linda Darling-Hammond on Reimagining College Access

May 31 2018
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LPI President Linda Darling-Hammond addresses the second meeting of the Reimagining College Access (RCA) initiative and talks about RCA’s potential for advancing equity by improving access to higher education through providing colleges and universities with authentic assessments of prospective students’ skills and knowledge. RCA brings together k-12 and higher education policy and practice leaders to identify ways for colleges and universities to use performance assessments in admissions, placement and advising.

Topic Deeper Learning
Blog

Time for a New Civil Rights Movement

Gary Orfield

May 24 2018
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Much was accomplished by the civil rights revolution, writes Gary Orfield, Distinguished Research Professor of Education, Law, Political Science and Urban Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles. But gains have been lost and times have changed. In this Education and the Path to Equity blog, Orfield says we need a new agenda for a more complex society and a new vision of integration in a century where we will all soon be minorities.

Topics Equitable Resources and Access, Accountability and Improvement
Webinar

Webinar: Leading the Way: How States Are Using Deeper Learning Assessments

May 17 2018
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The third webinar in LPI’s series, Achieving Equity Through Deeper Learning, explored how states are using and sharing information on deeper learning assessments. Specific projects, like the 4 State Performance Assessment Project and the State Performance Assessment Learning Community (SPA-LC), were discussed along with two major efforts underway in Washington that incorporate performance assessments in ways that engage students in three-dimensional science learning.

Topics Deeper Learning, Equitable Resources and Access
Blog

Fifty Years After Kerner, the Nation Is Still Separate and Unequal, But It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way

John B. King Jr.

May 17 2018
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In this installment of the Education and the Path to Equity blog series, John B. King Jr., President and CEO of the Education Trust and former U.S. Secretary of Education, observes that 50 years after the Kerner Commission, the striking disparities in opportunity that still exist throughout our nation are a reflection of choices that we have made as a society. As a nation, we are not acting on what we know is in the best interest of our children.

Topics Equitable Resources and Access, Accountability and Improvement, Deeper Learning: College, Career & Civic Participation
Blog

Centering Racial Equity Is Key to Righting Historic Injustices

Dr. Ebony Green

May 10 2018
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As we reflect on the 50th anniversary of the Kerner Report, we must recognize that educational institutions currently produce exactly what they were created to produce—opportunity gaps, writes Dr. Ebony Green, Executive Director of Equity and Access of the Newburgh Enlarged City School District. In the latest installment of the blog series, Education and the Path to Equity, Dr. Green shares how her school district is implementing a systemwide approach to equity in order to create opportunities and improve outcomes for all students.

Topics Equitable Resources and Access, Accountability and Improvement
Blog

School Funding: Deep Disparities Persist 50 Years After Kerner

David Sciarra, Esq.

May 03 2018
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Fifty years after the Kerner Commission warned of a nation divided, school funding remains profoundly unfair and inequitable in most states, shortchanging students across the country, writes David Sciarra, Executive Director of the Education Law Center in this installment of the blog series, Education and the Path to Equity. Those most disadvantaged by this enduring failure are millions of children from low-income families and children of color, especially those in high-poverty, racially isolated communities.

Topic Equitable Resources and Access
Blog

Creating Loving Cities Rather Than “Separate and Unequal”

Dr. John H. Jackson

Apr 26 2018
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This blog, Creating Loving Cities Rather Than “Separate and Unequal,” by Schott Foundation President and CEO Dr. John H. Jackson, addresses the racial segregation of communities and schools and its impact on children’s opportunity to learn and thrive, particularly children of color and children from low-income households.

Topic Equitable Resources and Access
Webinar

Webinar: How Teacher Leadership, Career Ladders and Relicensure can Support Teaching for Deeper Learning

Apr 25 2018
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Michelle Exstrom from the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), Wendy Robinson from Fort Wayne Community Schools, and David Hill of Georgia Professional Standards Board, explore how teacher leadership opportunities, career ladders and policies related to embedding professional learning in relicensure and recertification processes can help educators gain the skills and experiences they need to foster students’ deeper learning.

Topic Educator Quality
Brief

Diversifying the Teaching Profession Through High-Retention Pathways

Desiree Carver-Thomas

Apr 19 2018
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More and more states and districts are recognizing that recruiting and retaining teachers of color can help meet their students' needs while also helping to curb critical teacher shortages. But prospective teachers of color encounter unique barriers to entering and staying in the profession. High-retention pathways—combining high-quality clinically rich preparation with financial support—can be especially effective at reversing those trends.

Topics Educator Quality, Educator Quality: Recruitment & Retention, Equitable Resources and Access

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Report

Diversifying the Teaching Profession: How to Recruit and Retain Teachers of Color

Apr 19 2018

More and more states and districts are recognizing that recruiting and retaining teachers of color can help meet their students' needs while also helping to curb critical teacher shortages. But prospective teachers of color encounter unique barriers to entering and staying in the profession. High-retention pathways—combining high-quality clinically rich preparation with financial support—can be especially effective at reversing those trends.

Report

Building an Early Learning System that Works: Next Steps for California

Jan 23 2018

There is overwhelming evidence that children’s early years, from birth through preschool, are a crucial time for their development, and that high-quality early learning opportunities support children’s school readiness, promote later life success, and yield a return of up to $7 for every $1 invested. Providing access to high-quality ECE for all children in California will require a comprehensive approach to turning an uncoordinated set of underfunded programs into a true system of supports for children, families, and providers. A complement to LPI’s earlier report Understanding California’s Early Care and Education System, this report examines the challenges California’s counties face in providing ECE and provides recommendations for improving access to high-quality ECE for all children.

Report

The Promise of Performance Assessments: Innovations in High School Learning and Higher Education Admissions

Jan 18 2018

A new study looks at the use of performance assessments for both K-12 learning and college admission, placement and advising. The study is the first research produced through Reimagining College Access, a national initiative of the Learning Policy Institute and EducationCounsel that for the first time brings together k-12 and higher education policy and practice leaders to recognize and foster high-quality k–12 performance assessment systems.

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