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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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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
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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
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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

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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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