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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
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
Video

Event Video: Diversifying the Teacher Workforce: How to Recruit and Retain Teachers of Color

Apr 19 2018
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At this briefing, speakers discussed a new report from the Learning Policy Institute, Diversifying the Teaching Profession: Barriers to Recruiting and Retaining Teachers of Color and How to Overcome Them. The report reviews the research on the recruitment and retention of teachers of color, examines the current state of teachers of color in the workforce and the factors that affect their recruitment, hiring, and retention, and highlights opportunities for policymakers to grow a stable workforce of teachers of color in their districts and states.

Topic Educator Quality
Report

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

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
Blog

Immigrant Students: Our Kids, Our Future

Patricia Gándara

Apr 19 2018
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This blog post, from Dr. Patricia Gándara, LPI Senior Fellow and Director of the Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles, is part of the Learning Policy Institute series, Education and the Path to Equity. Dr. Gándara discusses the changing demographics of immigrant students and how they’ve been impacted by increased immigration enforcement practices. She also argues for reframing how we think about immigrant students to focus on their assets, which “prime them to be the very best learners in our schools.”

Topics Equitable Resources and Access, Deeper Learning
Video

Event Video: Performance Assessment: An Opportunity to Advance Educational Equity and Transform Teaching and Learning

Apr 12 2018
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As states, districts, and schools are expanding instruction to include the competencies associated with college, career, and civic readiness, they are also developing ways to measure mastery of higher-order thinking skills. These measures include performance assessments that show what students know and can do through demonstrations of their thinking, writing, research, and products. During this briefing, speakers shared information on how performance assessments can inform teaching and learning, advance educational equity, and be used to inform the postsecondary admission, placement, and advisement process in ways that increase access.

Topic Deeper Learning
Blog

Kerner At 50: Educational Equity Still a Dream Deferred

Linda Darling-Hammond

Apr 11 2018
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Fifty years ago, the Kerner Commission issued a seminal report on racial division and disparities in the United States. With this blog by Learning Policy Institute (LPI) President Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond, LPI launched a new blog series, Education and the Path to Equity. With it, we commemorate the release of the Kerner report and examine the persistent struggle to provide an equitable education for each and every student.

Topic Equitable Resources and Access
Newsletter

Newsletter: March 2018

Mar 19 2018
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This edition of the Reimagining College Access newsletter contains updates on the RCA project, Recognition Task Force, Technology Tool Task Force, Leading Places Network Brain Trust, and a feature story on the Assessment for Learning Project.

Topics Deeper Learning: Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment, Deeper Learning: College, Career & Civic Participation, Deeper Learning
Blog

Quality and Access Depend on Developing California’s Early Learning Workforce

Madelyn Gardner

Mar 07 2018
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As California policymakers look to strengthen the state’s early care and education workforce, the state could take a page from New Jersey’s playbook. In 1999 the Garden State launched an initiative to strengthen and increase compensation for its pre-K teacher workforce. Within 10 years, nearly every preschooler in the state program was taught by a fully credentialed teacher being paid a public school teacher’s salary.

Topic Early Childhood Learning
Blog

Deeper Learning: An Essential Component of Equity

Pedro A. Noguera

Mar 01 2018
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Access to deeper learning—classes in which students are engaged to think deeply and develop the skills and abilities they’ll need for college and work—is a central equity issue for our time, says Dr. Pedro Noguera in this LPI Blog. In this interview, Noguera discusses the role of deeper learning in providing all students with an equitable and empowering education and what it will take to “scale up” deeper learning practices.

Topics Deeper Learning, Equitable Resources and Access, Deeper Learning: Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment, Deeper Learning: School Organization & Design

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Report

Investing for Student Success: Lessons from State School Finance Reforms

Apr 09 2019

Money matters when it comes to improving our nation’s schools, but how that money is spent is critical. This report reviews and analyzes efforts by four states to undertake progressive school funding strategies in order to substantially improve learning opportunities for all students and provides recommendations for federal and state policies to address funding inequalities that contribute to the cycle of poverty.

Report

Understanding and Addressing Principal Turnover: A Review of the Research

Mar 19 2019

School principals are responsible for maintaining a positive school climate, motivating school staff, and enhancing teachers’ practice. They are vital to ensuring teachers’ success in the classroom and students’ success, but one in five principals leaves their school each year and the numbers are worse in schools in underserved communities. Inadequate preparation, poor working conditions, insufficient salaries, lack of authority, and high-stakes accountability policies are among the drivers of principal turnover that must be addressed.

Report

The Federal Role and School Integration: Brown’s Promise and Present Challenges

Feb 28 2019

Public schools are increasingly segregated along both racial and socioeconomic lines and many of the most extremely segregated schools are also the most under-resourced, plagued by inexperienced educators, lack of access to quality curriculum, and lack of quality facilities or access to technology. Although integrated education is not a panacea, diverse learning environments benefit all students and the federal government plays a critical role in fostering school diversity.

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