Resources from the Field
The views reflected in these publications are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Grantmakers for Education.
A new report released by KnowledgeWorks examines what conditions are necessary for a K-12 school district to put into place to support the scale of personalized learning (the focus on each individual student's strengths and needs).
This report, Math Scores Add Up for Hispanic Students, shows significant strides made by fourth and eighth grade Hispanic students over the past 10 years.
Metro D.C. School Spending Explorer, an interactive map that shows the school-level, per-pupil funding for D.C. area schools, was recently released by The Thomas B. Fordham Institute.
A new microsite hailed as a “one-stop shop” for building and maintaining successful collaborations between researchers and practitioners in education was announced by The William T. Grant Foundation and the Forum for Youth Investment (FYI).
The Road to Results: Effective Practices for Building Arts Audiences, which identifies and explains nine actions that arts organizations can take to increase the chances they will succeed in engaging audiences, was released by The Wallace Foundation.
A new research brief released by the Stuart Foundation, Toward a Grand Vision: Early Implementation of California’s Local Control Funding Formula, looks at early implementation of the Local Control Funding Formula in 10 diverse school districts in California.
A report released by National Women’s Law Center and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund outlines the discipline disparities for African-American girls and notes that pervasive racial and gender biases in education often prevent students from succeeding.
During the last ten years, the Education Program has sought to take advantage of key windows of opportunity to advance the education system, as a whole, toward better student outcomes.
Gay-Straight Alliance Network (GSA Network) and Crossroads Collaborative released reports on Discipline Disparities, School Push-Out, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline for gender nonconforming youth and for LGBTQ youth of color.
Grantmakers can embrace the potential of collective impact by becoming community partners, according to this report, but they have to be attentive to power dynamics.