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    In Focus:

    On the Anniversary of A Nation at Risk, EdTrust Teams up with Civil Rights Organizations to Sound the Call for a Renewed Focus on Equity. Read the Statement and Add Your Voice! 

    2007 NAEP Writing Results Released: Despite gains for the nation and most student groups at grades 8 and 12, gaps persist. Learn more...

     Their Fair Share: How Texas-sized Gaps in Teacher Quality Shortchange Poor and Minority Students
    Watch the Their Fair Share video clip, find out how your school does

    and TELL A TEXAN.

     

    Mark your calendars, tell your colleagues and join us for the 19th Education Trust National Conference, It's Up to Us: Going the Distance to Close Gaps and Raise Achievement for All, November 13-15, 2008

    Join EdTrust’s National Center for Transforming School Counseling June 5-7 in St. Louis for the Ninth Annual Summer Academy, Taking on the Challenge of College and Career Readiness for All Students.  Register today.

    Click here to learn about the NASH/EdTrust Access to Success initiative to expand college access and increase success.

    Featured Reports & Presentations


    Data Tools & Web Resources


    The Funding Gap Learn about continued injustice in state education funding patterns, and how school districts serving high percentages of low-income students, students of color and English language learners are shortchanged.

    2006 Education Watch State Summaries: Get a snapshot of student achievement and the condition of public education in the 50 states, the District of Columbia and the nation.

    Engines of Inequality: Diminishing Equity in the Nation’s Premier Public Universities Find out how financial aid choices made by the nation’s flagship universities create barriers to college enrollment and success for low-income students and students of color.

    Highlight on High Schools: Find resources to help you understand the problems with -- and the enormous potential of -- American high schools.

     

    Gaining Traction, Gaining Ground: How Some High Schools Accelerate Learning for Struggling Students
    Take an in-depth look 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

    College Results Online:  Examine graduation rates at virtually any four-year college and university in the nation, by students’ race, ethnicity and gender.

    Tools for Parents:  Analyze data and download free guides for African-American and Latino parents. Latino parent guide and state reports also are available in Spanish.

    No Child Left Behind: Get the real facts on the law and how it can help close the achievement gap. 

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    Click HERE for more data tools and web resources

    Education News:

    Highlights from Ed Trust’s Equity Express


    Note: Registration may be required to view some of the articles from the links below. 


    Student Tests – and Teacher Grades Wall Street Journal
    May 9—Suppose a swimming instructor told his 10-year-old students to swim the length of the pool to demonstrate what he'd taught them, and half of them nearly drowned? Would it be reasonable to make a judgment about his teaching ability?

     

    New tools for schools  Boston Globe

    May11—Federal education secretary Margaret Spellings is trying to pump life into the controversial No Child Left Behind law. Passed in 2002, the law needs to be reauthorized. But Congress is stalling on whether and how to retool the law until after the election. So to make some progress, Spellings is promoting new regulations.


    FUSD Plan to Help Minorities Approved Fresno Bee

    May 8--State education officials gave the Fresno and Long Beach unified school districts the go-ahead Thursday to begin innovative programs designed to improve test scores and boost achievement among minority students.

    Schools promote students despite widespread failure Arizona Daily Star

    May 11—Thousands of Tucson-area middle and high school students who fail key subjects continue to progress through Pima County's largest school districts every year toward graduation, a 10-month investigation by the Arizona Daily Star has found.



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