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Research Brief Series: Twenty Years of Education Funding in the U.S.
Explore this series of research briefs that share information on giving patterns in education over the past twenty years among foundations and grantmakers. The briefs cover funding by education levels, regional funding, and funding by topical areas.
Renewing Public Education’s Purpose
Philanthropy Pulse Check: April 2026
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What Is Going on in Education Philanthropy? Cutbacks and Shifting Strategies Disrupt the Field
This is the first in a two-part series about a wave of disruption and uncertainty in the world of education philanthropy.
Justice Is the Foundation
This action brief shows that despite a chorus of funders committing to changing their grantmaking practices amid the racial justice protests of 2020, grant dollars awarded to racial equity and racial justice work have declined compared to the period before it. The brief provides a number of starting points for those interested in making the necessary changes in their grant strategies.
Small Towns, Big Opportunities: Many Workers in Rural Areas Have Good Jobs, but These Areas Need Greater Investment in Education, Training, and Career Counseling
This report counters to some degree the popular narrative that rural America has been “left behind,” with data on the percent of the working popoulation that holds a share of the country's good jobs. It also provides recommendations to mitigate the region’s high labor-force non-participation rate, low bachelor’s degree attainment rate and overall population decline.
Education for the Age of AI
This AI-powered wave must encourage educators to deeply, yet carefully, reconsider Why, What, and How students should learn. Education for the Age of AI provides the detailed map. In its pages, educators, policymakers, and even concerned parents and students, will find troves of detailed and practical recommendations.
Talent Disrupted: College Graduates, Underemployment, and the Way Forward
In this new and updated version of the 2018 report, "The Permanent Detour," Strada Institute for the Future of Work and The Burning Glass Institute show that a college degree is not always a guarantee of labor market success.
Navigating the Past to Shape the Future of English Learner Education
The education of immigrant and English Learner (EL) students in our nation has been indelibly shaped at the intersection of struggles over race relations, language policy, national identity and even foreign policy. This brief provides an overview of this history, focusing on the role of California.
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