A growing body of research underscores the importance of teacher diversity for student outcomes. At a time when our student population is increasingly more diverse and schools need more Black educators, the representation gap between teachers and students of color remains wide.
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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.
Staying Connected: A Note to Our Members
Philanthropy Pulse Check: February 2026
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October 2021
Episode 79: Human-Centered Approaches to Education, Philanthropy, and Systems-Change
October 2021
Hansen: Critical Race Theory Debate Is a Distraction from the Real Issue — Making Schools Places Where Children Can Truly Be Themselves
October 2021
Episode 18: Educating Children To Be Powerful with Dr. Ulcca Joshi Hansen
October 2021
To Be Who We Are: Black Teachers on Creating Affirming School Cultures
October 2021
Supporting Career and Technical Education in Peoria and Pittsburgh
Between 2015 and 2018, the AFT Innovation Fund supported innovative career and technical education (CTE) efforts in four communities: Miami, Peoria, Pittsburgh and San Francisco. This report focuses on the priorities, activities and outcomes achieved in two of those communities: Pittsburgh and Peoria.
October 2021
Insights Gained from an Equity-Centered Strategic Learning Initiative
Learn how grantees and funders can work together in new ways to advance educational opportunity, discover through grantees’ own words how the initiative empowered them, and explore resources that can inform your own strategic learning efforts.
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