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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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Promoting Healthy Futures: Afterschool Provides the Supports Parents Want for Children's Well-Being
The Afterschool Alliance's 4th edition of America After 3PM provides a detailed account of children in the afterschool hours, identifying: trends of participation in, and unmet demand for, afterschool programs; the experiences and opportunities programs afford; and which children and families are missing out, and why.
State of American Philanthropy: Giving for Early Childhood
This background paper covers important topics and trends in U.S. giving to early childhood education. It draws on past research and reporting by IP writers, as well as new interviews, grantmaking data, and other sources including Grantmakers for Education.
Latino College Enrollment: Past, Current, and Projections
Latino student college enrollment had been growing at an accelerated pace for more than 20 years, but in 2020 dropped significantly despite previous projections of continued growth. In this fact sheet, we provide a summary of past, current, and projected Latino student enrollment that can help institutions identify and understand patterns to improve their efforts to more intentionally serve their Latino students.
Elevating School Leadership in State Policy
The Policy Brief examines recent state actions to support school leaders, including legislative examples from 13 states. To address the changing roles of school leaders, states are enacting legislation to strengthen the candidate pipeline and ensure school leaders are represented in the policymaking process.
Understanding Teacher Compensation: A State-by-State Analysis
Offering competitive teacher compensation is an important part of the puzzle to recruiting and retaining a strong and diverse teacher workforce. This brief provides a state-by-state analysis of three public school teacher wage indicators.
Imperfect Attendance: Toward a fairer measure of student absenteeism
The need to understand how schools can improve student attendance has never been greater. This study breaks new ground by examining high schools’ contributions to attendance after accounting for individual students’ prior absenteeism and other observable characteristics—that is, their “attendance value-added.”
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