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Philanthropy’s Role in a Transitioning Education Landscape
Read Grantmakers for Education and The Philanthropic Collaborative for Education's joint statement on Philanthropy’s Role in a Transitioning Education Landscape.
Kids Are Philanthropists, Too: "The Future of Education"
Trends in Education Philanthropy: Benchmarking 2025
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Return on Investment in Education Toolkit
Facing tight budgets? A System Strategy Return on Investment (SSROI) approach provides a fresh perspective on evaluating educational investments. Learn how this method can guide strategic decisions, enhance student outcomes, and promote financial sustainability.
Setting Students Up for Success: Tips on Coaching College Students
In postsecondary research, comprehensive approaches to student success programs are shown to have the greatest impact on student outcomes. MDRC’s evaluation of one such program points to a connection between frequent, high-quality coaching and credit accumulation, a key measure of college success.
Early Childhood Administrators Value Data for Decisionmaking
DQC’s 2024 national poll of early childhood administrators surveyed early childhood administrators to find out how they are collecting, using and reporting data.
Designing Equitable Through-Year Assessments
This resource highlights crucial technical considerations for advocates and state administrators. It also provides state-level policymakers, administrators and advocates with detailed guidance on prioritizing equity when designing, developing, implementing and evaluating new or existing through-year assessment initiatives.
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.
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