Report

The Education Trust—West releases the findings of a two- year-long study of data from the second largest school district in the nation, revealing profound inequities in access to effective teaching.  In Learning Denied: The Case for Equitable Access to Effective Teaching in California’s Largest School District, The Education Trust—West finds that low-income students and students of color in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) are less likely to be ta

Albert Einstein once defined insanity as "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." If his assertion is true, then the recent history of California’s school-improvement efforts paints a picture of sheer madness.

For more than a decade, California has tossed hundreds of millions of dollars at low-performing schools in a series of unproductive "reform" initiatives. Instead of drilling down to fix the conditions that create a cycle of under-performance, these programs have skimmed the surface of school improvement and produced minimal gains.

Obtener y mantener un buen trabajo en el siglo 21 requiere de una educación del siglo 21. Pero la mayoría de las escuelas secundarias de California no están preparando a los estudiantes adecuadamente para que triunfen en la nueva economía en la que vivimos. En este reporte examinamos cuán bien las escuelas secundarias de California están cumpliendo con esta meta en nombre de todos los estudiantes.