Resources

Championing Equity: A Toolkit for Funders Seeking to Invest in Immigrant and Other Bilingual or Multilingual Children

The Intersection of Anti-Black Racism and Adolescent Development

This report summarizes research on how racism and related inequities impact key developmental milestones of adolescence and offers recommendations to support Black youth within key social contexts of the middle and high school years.

Social and Emotional Learning Implementation with Latinx Learners

This research brief series highlights key findings and implications from research conducted by ACT in collaboration with Region One Education Service Center, a provider of educational services to over 430,000 students in South Texas who are primarily Latinx and from low-income communities.

How to Sell SEL: Parents and the Politics of Social-Emotional Learning

Going Beyond ESSA Compliance: A 50-State Scan of School Spending Reports

Thanks to the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), states have added per-student school spending information to school report cards — putting that information in the hands of parents, advocates, and other community members. Compliance with ESSA is a solid starting point.

Student Loan Debt Among Educators: A National Crisis

From pre-K to Ph.D., our right to learn, grow, and thrive should be based on how big we dream and how hard we work. But the astronomical cost of higher education—even public higher education—forces many students to either forego their education or be trapped in a lifetime of debt.

This report presents the results of a 2020 NEA survey of educators working in pre-K–12 and higher education institutions regarding student loan debt. In line with research on student loan debt within the general population, we find that student loans play a significant role in the financial lives of many educators and have disproportionate impacts on specific subgroups.