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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Philanthropy’s Role in a Transitioning Education Landscape
This week’s Supreme Court decision clearing the way for dismantling the U.S. Department of Education marks a profound shift, placing even greater responsibility on states to uphold educational equity with fewer federal supports. As nearly half the states raise legal challenges over delayed federal funds, philanthropy must meet this moment—not with political posturing, but with urgency, clarity and action.
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April 2021
Working to Learn: New Research on Connecting Education and Career
April 2021
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.
April 2021
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.
April 2021
Investments in Implicit and Explicit Dimensions of Place-Based Systems Change: A Tool for Funder Reflection and Action
April 2021
The Role of Assistant Principals: Evidence and Insights for Advancing School Leadership
April 2021
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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