Achievement Gap

African American Achievement in California

As Black History Month comes to a closeand we prepare to commemorate the 50th Anniversery of Brown v. Board of Education, we examine an educational system in California that remainsvery much seperate and unequal. Opening the schoolhouse doors to all students has not meant equal opportunities or equal outcomes. And it certainly hasn't meant equal or equitable access to high-quality teachers, rigorous classesand resources that would help low-performing students achieve.

Publication date: 
August 15 2004

Latino Achievement in California

Fifty years ago, Brown v. Board of Education made several promises to our nation's young people. One was that schools could not be segregated by race. Another was that our nation's public schools would make education available to all groups of students on equal terms. California's public schools teach more Latino children than any other subgroupof students. But do they live up to the spirit of Brown in teaching those students? Looking at the data, tragically, we see a very unequalsystem for Latino students in California.

Publication date: 
August 15 2004

High Schools in Los Angeles Unified: A Status Report

Improving High Schools is an urgent priority for Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). In this brief summary we look at whether LAUSD students are graduating, whether they are taking the right classes along the way to graduation and whether they are leaving high school with the skills they need to succeed. A more in depth set of data about each of the districts high schools can be found in our raising the roof data tool at www.edtrustwest.org.

Publication date: 
July 15 2004

The High School Diploma: Making it More Than an Empty Promise

What's the point of high school?
When posed in this fashion, without context, this question seems rather light hearted, perhaps a bit rhetorical. But it is not. The question is one of sober seriousness.

Prepared for: Senate Standing Committee on Education, Hearing on Senate Bill 1731
Testimony by: Russlynn Ali, Director, The Education Trust West

Publication date: 
April 2 2002
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