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Member Insights: Investing in the Deep South
"If you’ve never been on a bus filled with education grantmakers from across the country... let me be the first to tell you: it’s an experience you won’t soon forget." Sara Sneed, president and CEO of The NEA Foundation, shares a journey through history, community and possibility in the Deep South.
What’s It Like to Lead Grantmakers for Education in Tumultuous Times?
Trends in Education Philanthropy: Benchmarking 2025
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Lessons in (In)Equity: An Evaluation of Cultural Responsiveness in Elementary ELA Curriculum
New research from New York University found that public school curriculum is falling short in providing “culturally responsive” education, a blind spot that researchers believe could be failing students across the country.
Seeding Equitable Educator Development
What does it look like to advance racial equity and inclusion in high-quality educator pathways? This report provides a synopsis of the overall impact of a SEED fund initiative and highlights the remarkable work of each of the nine partners as well as insights related to the fund’s goals.
Promising Practices: A School District Guide to Advocating for Equity in American Rescue Plan Spending
This report looks at practices in four school districts across the nation that have shown promise to accelerate student learning, largely funded with federal dollars from the American Rescue Plan.
A Ripple, Not a Wave: Comparing the Last Decade of Foundation Funding for Migrant Communities and Movements
New data shows that more funders participate in pro-immigrant and pro-refugee philanthropic spaces today than they did in the past. This is progress, but it’s far from enough. Pro-immigrant, pro-refugee movement’s share of all foundation grants has shrunk 11% since DACA was first introduced.
Whiteness Rules: Racial Exclusion in Becoming an American College President
This research illustrates how racialization happens in college presidential searches in California’s public higher education institutions. The findings on structural bias in these processes, and the proposed solutions in the companion toolkit to the report, have implications for racial equity at other levels of administrative and faculty leadership, at the system level, in other states and nationally.
The Student-Affirming Education Needed for Our Children and Our Nation's Future
This report outlines expert research and data on why accurate and student-affirming education practices need implementation across the nation.
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