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Research Brief Series: Twenty Years of Education Funding in the U.S.
Explore this series of research briefs that share information on giving patterns in education over the past twenty years among foundations and grantmakers. The briefs cover funding by education levels, regional funding, and funding by topical areas.
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Moving toward human liberatory models
The Coconut Thinking podcast brings together educational provocateurs who are re-thinking school as a concept and a space.
Youth Policy: How Can We Smooth the Rocky Pathway to Adulthood?
Youth Policy: How Can We Smooth the Rocky Pathway to Adulthood? examines the United States’ fragmented and inadequate approach to youth policy against the backdrop of these economic pressures and recommends changes necessary to move toward a more comprehensive and holistic approach.
Reinvigorating K-12 Science Education
The 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress in Science offers timely insights into the challenges states faced while implementing new academic standards that focus on scientific inquiry, engineering and technology.
The Future of Smart
Just released! New book by Grantmakers for Education's Dr. Ulcca Joshi Hansen. The book explores how funders and policymakers can leverage the disruptions of COVID to build P-K through postsecondary systems in ways that reflect research on human development, learning science and the future of work and civil society.
The Future of Smart
In The Future of Smart, author Ulcca Hansen discusses the changes needed in education to sustain healthy communities, economic systems, and civic society.
Navigating the College-to-Career Pathway: The 10 Rules of Moving from Youth Dependency to Adult Economic Independence
Having a college credential has become both more valuable in the labor market and more expensive, with much of the burden falling directly on students and their families. Meanwhile, the postsecondary landscape has become increasingly complex. College tends to be a good investment, but it involves significant risk based on program of study, level of educational attainment, and occupation.
To differentiate among the myriad options on the postsecondary pathway, students and their families should be guided by these 10 rules of the college and career game. This research paper was published in partnership with the Postsecondary Value Commission.
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