Publications
Following is a list of all current Education Trust publications from newest to oldest. To find a publication that interests you, go to the Filter Publications box and choose a topic or audience from the menu, or click on one of the “tags” beneath a publication listed below to view all of our publications on that topic. If you know the title of a specific publication but cannot find it, type the name in the Search box atop this page. Publications that may contain some outdated information appear in our archives, which are arranged by year. All Education Trust publications are available as free downloads. Publications marked with an asterisk (*) are available in print. Please contact rpitts@edtrust.org for more information.
College Results Online Brief: Top Gap Closers
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Some public four-year colleges and universities have made good progress in closing graduation-rate gaps.
College Results Online Brief: Top Gainers
Some public four-year colleges and universities make big improvements in minority graduation rates.
Opportunity Adrift: Our Flagship Universities Are Straying From Their Public Mission
Public flagship and research universities spend millions of dollars every year to aid wealthy students who don't need it, while providing inadequate support to low-income and minority students who do. Some flagships are stepping up to the challenge and focusing on access and success. An account of their performance and progress appears at the end of this report.
A Guide for Hispanic Parents: How to Help Your Child Prepare for College and Career*
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Why your child needs to prepare for college and a career, how to tell if your child’s school has college-ready academic standards, the special hurdles facing Hispanic students, and how parents can be effective advocates for their children.
A Guide for African-American Parents: How to Help Your Child Prepare for College and Career*
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Why your child needs to prepare for college and a career, how to tell if your child’s school has college-ready academic standards, the special hurdles facing African-American students, and how parents can be effective advocates for their children.
Gauging the Gaps: A Deeper Look at Student Achievement
Using state-level NAEP data, this brief illustrates the pitfalls in one-dimensional appraisals of achievement gaps. Analyzing the gaps from four perspectives is essential to gain a comprehensive, accurate picture of equity.
Their Fair Share: How Teacher Salary Gaps Shortchange Minority Children in Texas*
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These companion reports document funding patterns in the state’s 10 largest school systems, showing how average teacher salaries vary dramatically between schools within the same district. The reports describe gaps in per-teacher spending, and how those gaps stack the deck against the academic success of low-income, Hispanic and African American children.
Their Fair Share: How Teacher Salary Gaps Shortchange Poor Children in Texas
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These companion reports document funding patterns in the state’s 10 largest school systems, showing how average teacher salaries vary dramatically between schools within the same district. The reports describe gaps in per-teacher spending, and how those gaps stack the deck against the academic success of low-income, Hispanic and African American children.
Yes We Can: Telling Truths and Dispelling Myths About Race and Education in America
This report examines the educational practices and policies that have raised academic achievement for low-income and minority students, and offers compelling evidence that children of color excel in school when given the right teaching, right classes and right support.
Promise Abandoned: How Policy Choices and Institutional Practices Restrict College Opportunities
This report sharply criticizes trends in federal, state, and college practices that discourage low-income and minority students from enrolling and graduating from college.
Teaching Inequality: How Poor and Minority Students Are Shortchanged on Teacher Quality
This report provides new information on the impact of teacher quality on student achievement and offers specific steps states should take to remedy the persistent practice of denying the best teachers to the children who need them the most.
Engines of Inequality: Diminishing Equity in the Nation’s Premier Public Universities
This report holds to account most flagship universities for limiting access to minority students.
The Funding Gap
This 2006 report documents the fact that poorer states receive less in education funding, while poorer districts within states receive lower funding, and that poorer schools within districts are under-funded.
1/7/09 – We recently discovered some data errors in the 2008 edition of The Funding Gap and are working to correct them and then repost the report as quickly as possible. In the meantime, the 2006 edition is our most up-to-date and comprehensive report on state funding gaps. Please check back soon for the updated 2008 report. We apologize for any inconvenience. For more information, please contact Christina Theokas at ctheokas@edtrust.org.
The Power to Change: High Schools that Help All Students Achieve
This report chronicles the stories of three very different high schools that are getting strong results for minority students and students from low-income families. The report demonstrates clearly that some high schools are succeeding, even under challenging circumstances.
Gaining Traction, Gaining Ground: How Some High Schools Accelerate Learning for Struggling Students
This report is the result of a careful, on-the-ground study into the practices of public high schools that serve high concentrations of either low-income or minority children and have a strong track record accelerating learning for students who enter high school below grade level. This study compares and contrasts the practices of these high-impact schools with similar high schools that have only an average impact on student performance.
One Step from the Finish Line: Higher College-Graduation Rates are Within Our Reach
This report challenges the conventional wisdom about college-graduation rates by highlighting the strategies of some successful colleges and universities.
Choosing To Improve: Voices from Colleges and Universities with Better Graduation Rates
Offers a detailed examination of the practices of these schools and outlines a growing body of research that tells us that what schools do matters a great deal -- from their efforts to keep new students engaged to their use of data to uncover obstacles to completion.
Guide to Help African-American Parents Improve Their Children's Education
This guide gives African-American parents the necessary tools needed to advocate and improve their child’s education.
The Real Value of Teachers: Using New Information about Teacher Effectiveness to Close the Achievement Gap
This report lays out an ambitious policy agenda, premised on an exhaustive review of the existing research on teacher effectiveness—often referred to as “value-added.”
On Course for Success
The Education Trust along with the ACT collaborated to write On Course for Success which provides examples of model high school courses that prepare students for the rigors of college and ultimately the work force.
A Matter of Degrees
An analysis reveals deep problems in the graduation rates at four-year colleges and universities but finds that some institutions do a much better job graduating some students than others.
Guide to Help Latino Parents Improve Their Children's Education
This guide offers a number of suggestions for how Latino parents can get involved and be a better advocate for the education of Latino children.
A New Core Curriculum For All: Aiming High For Other People's Children
This report highlights findings from several large-scale economic and education studies. It argues that educators and policymakers working to ensure that all students are prepared for success in work and in college must attend, first and foremost, to ensuring that students take the rigorous courses that research makes clear are necessary for such success.
Latino Achievement in America: En Español
This brief two-pager and PowerPoint documents the current status of Latino Achievement in America, High-Performing Schools, and ways communities can help close the achievement gap.
African American Achievement in America
This brief two-pager documents the current status of African American Achievement in America, High-Performing Schools, and ways communities can help close the achievement gap.
Latino Achievement in America
This brief two-pager and PowerPoint documents the current status of Latino Achievement in America, high-performing schools, and ways communities can help close the achievement gap.
Add It Up: Mathematics Education in the U.S. Does Not Compute
This report marshals findings from several large-scale studies of mathematics achievement – both national and international – to argue that improving mathematics achievement in the United States will require a coordinated K-16 approach involving both K-12 and higher education.
New Frontiers for A New Century: A National Overview
What will it take to foster high achievement in low-performing schools? This report explores student performance nationwide, highlighting gaps that remain. It also spotlights “frontier states” which have succeeded in raising achievement, even as other states are lagging, and outlines the ideas that propel their success.
Honor in the Boxcar: Equalizing Teacher Quality
Some of the country’s best minds grapple with a question at the heart of education reform: How do we attract the strongest teachers to the schools that need them most? This powerful set of essays concludes with a comprehensive list of action steps for attaining higher teacher quality where it counts.
Good Teaching Matters: How Well-Qualified Teachers Can Close the Gap
This report marshals findings from several recent large-scale studies of student achievement to argue that policy makers hoping to boost student achievement must attend, first and foremost, to issues of teacher quality - the quality of teacher preparation, recruitment, licensure, hiring, assignment and ongoing professional development.
