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Trends in Education Philanthropy: Benchmarking 2025

Our Trends in Education Philanthropy: Benchmarking report, based on the latest survey of education grantmakers, offers insights into where and how funders are working and their evolving priorities.
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Unlocking Opportunity: The Post-Graduation Success and Equity Network Progress Report
The network's central goal is to ensure that more students complete programs that lead directly to jobs that pay a sustaining wage or to transfer and completion of a bachelor’s degree. This progress report outlines work at network colleges in the 2023-2024 academic year, including collective, quantitative goals for the network's impact on students and reforms to date at each institution.
How Community Partnerships Strengthen Summer Learning in Rural Districts
This report explores ways rural districts leverage community partnerships to strengthen summer learning programs. Developed in partnership with NYU Metro Center’s Policy, Research and Evaluation, FHI 360 and The Wallace Foundation.
Sustaining High-Quality Instructional Coaching in a Challenging Budget Environment
To sustain effective instructional coaching in challenging financial climates, education leaders must adopt a return on investment (ROI) approach. By doing so, leaders can maintain and enhance impact, ensuring long-term benefits for teaching and learning despite financial pressures.
Miles To Go: The State of Education for Black Students in America
This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the persistent inequities in our education system. The findings of the report are both illuminating and concerning.
From Some-College-No-Degree to Success: Postsecondary Pathways for the 40 Million
What is driving the troubling trend of students stopping out, and what can be done to move these learners toward success? This report focuses on the barriers for this population and the actions policy makers as well as institutional leaders can take to better serve them in their postsecondary journeys. Funded in part by Ascendium Education Group.
Design-Based Budgeting: A New Alternative to Weighted Student Funding Formulas
Many district leaders are re-considering their funding systems in the context of tighter budgets, greater student needs, the push for fiscal sustainability. Learn about ERS' design-based budgeting approach, which keeps leader's eyes focused on the school models they want to create.
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