This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Christina Veiga reports that five New York City school districts are using grants to fund their own approaches to school integration. • How can funders help school…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Matt Barnum unpacks research around busing for school desegregation that shows that bussing improved outcomes for students but was a political failure. • How can funders…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Diversity in recruitment is an excellent first step for prioritizing equity in schools. However, the next steps are critical for teachers to understand how to support…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Writing for Governing Magazine, Mike Maciag lists the cities with the biggest racial disparities in schools, explains why public schools don’t always reflect their surrounding communities and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Vu Le at Nonprofit AF discusses the main reasons why more executive directors of color are stepping down from their positions and why it is important…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. To operationalize racial equity throughout our practices, we must be radically different than the philanthropy of previous generations. Many of us need to evolve our internal practices and culture, in…
Create intentional pathways to social justice work through organizing: Creating intentional pathways requires investments in partnerships and collaborations between schools and community-based organizations, universities and employment training institutes that build…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Writing for the Manhattan Institute, Brown University’s Glenn C. Loury examines the complex causes behind persistent racial inequality in America and explains why racial inequality is an…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Writing for Education Next, Anna J. Egalite discusses a new report by Seth Gershenson about matching teachers and students based on demographic characteristics. · Why is it important…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • According to a study by Innovate Public Schools, Sol Price Center for Social Innovation and the Rossier School of Education Center on Education Policy, Equity and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The ACLU of D.C. unpacks D.C. policing data, revealing extreme racial disparities in interactions, tickets, and arrests which disproportionately impact Black people. • How can funders…
Giving Compass’ Take: • The Annie E. Casey Foundation explains why children are likely to be undercounted in the 2020 census and what an undercount will mean for the public and…