This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. While access to digital devices, the internet, and digital skills training has been uneven in the United States for decades, the COVID-19 pandemic magnified these disparities. More than ever, digital…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. If you want to understand the teacher shortages disrupting schools across the country this winter, check out an episode of the new sitcom Abbott Elementary, which follows teachers at a fictional…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Black students who attend historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are more satisfied with their college experiences than Black students who attend other types of postsecondary institutions, a new Urban Institute…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Enrollment and attendance in pre-K — especially among Black and Latino preschoolers — improves when programs operate for a full school day instead of a few hours in the morning…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Since fall 2020, researchers at the Center on Reinventing Public Education have studied hundreds of self-organized learning pods that launched during the pandemic. As our latest report shows, most families sought safe…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In 2017, Open Society Foundations launched a global Community Youth Fellowship Program — a collaborative grantmaking initiative focused on engaging young people as individual grantees through a diversity, equity, and inclusion lens. The program…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For decades, many school districts with the largest share of students living in poverty have endured crumbling buildings, outdated textbooks, and little support for students and teachers. Now, the infusion…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Los Angeles Unified School District is not only the nation’s second largest school system. It is also one of the most unique with a student body that is 73…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Urban Alliance, launched in 1996, is building a diverse next-generation workforce by providing job skills training, mentoring, and paid internships to high school youth from under-resourced communities, predominantly youth of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When Amanda Gardner, an educator with two decades of experience, helped to start a new charter elementary and middle school outside of Seattle last year, she did not anticipate teaching…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Miranda Hayes didn’t expect to graduate from high school, much less attend college. She faced extreme verbal bullying and demeaning comments from teachers when she got to high school in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Back in 2019, The Learning Accelerator (TLA) partnered with six other remote organizations based in education to form the Remote DEI Collective (RDC), a community of practice focused on the intersections of…