The number of assistant principals has grown markedly in recent years, and with reconsideration, the AP role could do more to help foster educational equity, school improvement and principal effectiveness.
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Policy Changes Affecting Education and Philanthropy: Resources and Events

Find EdFunders and partner resources and events here that support education philanthropy's strategy around and management of the transition to the new federal administration and ongoing policy updates.
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Working to Learn: New Research on Connecting Education and Career
Investing in the Power of Young People: 20 Years of Philanthropic Support for Youth Organizing
This report evaluates the critical role philanthropy has played in shoring up a youth organizing field poised to meet the multiple challenges of this moment. This report is part of FCYO’s 2020 National Youth Organizing Field Scan, a series of four reports that together offer an in-depth look into a field that has grown in significant ways over the last two decades.
What to Expect as Gen Z Starts to Parent
How the future will unfold for today’s young children depends on a wide range of factors: climate change, technological developments, economic shifts, among others. But another primary influence will be much closer to home: the values, priorities and expectations of their parents and the choices that they make as a result. This brief explores the Gen Z generation in the United States and how these parents might approach the timeless act of parenting.
Investments in Implicit and Explicit Dimensions of Place-Based Systems Change: A Tool for Funder Reflection and Action
The Role of Assistant Principals: Evidence and Insights for Advancing School Leadership
Immigrant and U.S.-Born Parents of Young and Elementary-School-Age Children: Key Sociodemographic Characteristics
Parents play a critical role in supporting the school readiness and educational success of their children—a role that took on even greater importance with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated shift to remote learning.
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