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Monitoring Chronic Absence Is Key to Creating an Equal Opportunity to Learn

Hedy N. Chang

Oct 18 2018
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Across the country, more than eight million students are chronically absent, meaning they miss nearly one month of school each year. ESSA creates an opportunity for states and districts to monitor and address chronic absences as a key strategy for creating greater educational equity. This blog, part of the Realizing ESSA’s Promise series, provides examples and guidance on how states can equip districts, communities, and schools to take a comprehensive approach to improving attendance.

Topics The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), Accountability and Improvement, Equitable Resources and Access
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Mining Data to Advance Equity

Stephen Kostyo

Oct 03 2018
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The Every Student Succeeds Act broadens the notion of student and school success beyond standardized tests and recognizes the importance of schools providing critical supports for students. This blog, from our series, Realizing ESSA’s Promise, explores how states are leveraging ESSA’s support for non-academic indicators to identify disparities and then implement research-based policies and practices to address identified needs.

Topics Accountability and Improvement, Deeper Learning, The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), Equitable Resources and Access
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Community Schools: A Powerful Strategy to Disrupt Inequitable Systems

Christopher Edley, Jr.

Linda Darling-Hammond

Aug 16 2018
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Fifty years after the Kerner Report, our nation still struggles with persistent disparities in child welfare, educational opportunities, and economic outcomes—but there is still hope for change. In this Education and the Path to Equity blog, Christopher Edley, President of the Opportunity Institute, and Linda Darling-Hammond discuss the potential of community schools to overcome the entrenched inequities of today’s education system.

Topics Equitable Resources and Access, Deeper Learning: School Organization & Design
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Kerner at 50: Who Will Be Bold and Courageous? Confronting Racism and School Funding Equity

Zakiyah Ansari

Aug 09 2018
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Education has the potential to be the "great equalizer" in society — mitigating the impacts of poverty and race. But that potential has yet to be realized in America. In this Education and the Path to Equity blog, Zakiyah Ansari, Advocacy Director with the New York State Alliance for Quality Education, discussed the progress made in investing in the right of every student to learn well.

Topic Equitable Resources and Access
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Rich Schools, Poor Schools: Fifty Years of Pursuing the Promise of Equal Educational Opportunity

Aug 01 2018
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Fifty years ago, in his book, Rich Schools, Poor Schools: The Promise of Equal Educational Opportunity, Arthur Wise noted the glaring inequities in public school funding and suggested that examination by the courts would reveal they were unconstitutional. In his blog, Wise describes advocates’ efforts to redress those wrongs through a judicial strategy, legislatures’ responses to court rulings and judicial orders, where we stand now, and what remains to be done to achieve equal educational opportunity.

Topic Equitable Resources and Access
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Arming Teachers And Expelling Students Is Not The Answer To School Shootings, And It's Dangerous

Linda Darling-Hammond

Jun 14 2018
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As the US looks for ways to reduce school shootings, research shows that initiatives that reduce suspension, expulsion, and intervention from law enforcement and that focus on inclusion and social emotional learning show promise that arming teachers and expelling students do not.

Topics Accountability and Improvement, Deeper Learning: College, Career & Civic Participation, The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
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Fifty Years After Kerner, It’s Time to Finish What We Started

Anne Holton

Jun 13 2018
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Richmond, VA’s diversity is a point of strength, but the vast majority of its schools are still segregated by race and income. In the latest Education and the Path to Equity blog, Anne Holton writes about that reality and what one school is doing to change it. Holton is Visiting Professor of Public Policy and Education at George Mason University and former Virginia Secretary of Education.

Topics Equitable Resources and Access, Accountability and Improvement
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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
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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
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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

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Why Our Education Funding Systems Are Derailing the American Dream

Feb 18 2019

We live in an era of extreme income inequality and one of the places it’s hitting hardest is in our schools. That’s because inequity is hard-wired into our school-funding systems. Linda Darling-Hammond and Jeff Raikes explain the hard wiring and discuss what we can do to shift direction and ensure that every child receives a quality education.

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Just as schools were becoming safer, Trump ‘safety’ commission likely to halt progress

Jan 08 2019

In late December, 2018, the Trump administration rescinded Obama-era guidance on school discipline that has helped improve school safety and student achievement across the country. In advance of that decision, Linda Darling-Hammond and Chris Edley cautioned against this move in a commentary in The Hill. They explained that after states adopted the guidance, suspensions and expulsions—which are given at much higher rates to students of color—were reduced significantly as were school-based firearms incidents.

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What Detroit and Chicago Can Teach Us About Student Growth and School Rating Systems

Dec 13 2018

Historically, U.S. schools have been rated based largely on student performance on an annual summative test. With the passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), state accountability systems now feature additional measures of student and school success, including academic growth. These factors are critical if we are to create accountability systems that recognize the contributions that schools make to student progress, while reducing bias against educators and schools serving students in diverse, high-poverty communities.

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