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May 23, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Alejandra Vazquez Baur |Zack DiGregorio |Halley Potter |Jayla Hart
“Perhaps no case in modern memory has received so much media coverage and scholarly commentary,” said a Supreme Court justice before announcing the high court’s decision in the most consequential affirmative action case in a generation. The year was 1978. Justice Lewis Powell delivered the Court’s opinion in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke. Indeed, forty five years before the Supreme Court ruled in Students for Fair Admissions v.
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
tcf.org | Jayla Hart |Conor Williams |Jonathan Zabala |Eishika Ahmed
If you walk into Mrs. Garcia’s classroom at Montecito Community School in Phoenix, Arizona, you won’t see her standing in front of a board teaching her class the day’s lesson. Instead, you’ll see students spread out across the classroom, each exploring their own interests. One student works on a puzzle of the United States, trying to fit each state into its proper location, while two students use a magnet to pick up a container full of paper clips.
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Oct 18, 2023 | 
tcf.org | Jonathan Zabala |Conor Williams |Alejandra Vazquez Baur |Jayla Hart
When I was in kindergarten, I took a special admissions test at my school. One question from that test remains vivid in my memory: the administrator presented me with a page featuring four boats and asked me to identify the widest one. Unfamiliar with the term “wide,” I chose a boat randomly. Later, I approached my mother and asked what wide meant.
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Oct 18, 2023 | 
tcf.org | Jayla Hart |Jonathan Zabala |Conor Williams |Alejandra Vazquez Baur
In recent years, national leaders and media figures have made much of a supposed teacher shortage in the United States. However, data suggest that while issues exist in specialized areas, there is no general shortage of teachers right now. However, the country does remain tremendously short of the linguistically and culturally diverse teachers it needs to fully meet the needs of its growing English learner (EL) population.
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Sep 13, 2023 | 
tcf.org | Conor Williams |Jonathan Zabala |Alejandra Vazquez Baur |Jayla Hart
Maryland is one of the most diverse states in the nation, with a pre-K–12 school system that serves nearly a million students and employs over 60,000 teachers. Yet while Maryland’s student population is increasingly diverse, the state’s public schools remain highly segregated—both within and across its twenty-four districts. This racial segregation in education is accompanied by a lack of diversity in Maryland’s teaching workforce.
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Aug 28, 2023 | 
tcf.org | Jonathan Zabala |Alejandra Vazquez Baur |Conor Williams |Jayla Hart
Twenty-five years into this century, it’s clear that much of what was labeled “twenty-first-century learning”—various education technologies, a range of ill-defined academic skills, etc.—didn’t substantively shift how American public education operates.
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Jul 19, 2023 | 
tcf.org | Jonathan Zabala |Conor Williams |Alejandra Vazquez Baur |Jayla Hart
“It was unreal,” says Mukta Sambrani, principal of Lincoln Elementary, a campus in the heart of Oakland, California’s Chinatown. When the country—and its schools—ground to a halt in February 2020, Sambrani had little turnaround time to figure out how to switch her entire school from in-person learning to virtual instruction. Lincoln Elementary wasn’t alone, of course.
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Jun 29, 2023 | 
tcf.org | Jayla Hart |Conor Williams |Jonathan Zabala |Xigrid Soto-Boykin
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Jun 23, 2023 | 
tcf.org | Jayla Hart |Richard D. Kahlenberg |Alejandra Vazquez Baur |Jonathan Zabala
Amid political tension in schools and looming U.S. Supreme Court decisions on the fate of race-conscious affirmative action, diversity in education is once again in the spotlight. Having just passed the sixty-ninth anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, what is the federal government doing to foster educational equity and create diverse, inclusive learning environments?
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Apr 18, 2023 | 
tcf.org | Halley Potter |Stefan Lallinger |Jayla Hart |Jonathan Zabala
Nationwide, low-income families are routinely excluded from schools and neighborhoods that would offer their families stability, enrichment, and a wealth of opportunities. Thankfully, across the country, there are also organizations and districts working together through housing and school partnerships to redress this legacy of disparate outcomes and unequal opportunity for low-income students and students of color. One such organization, Urban Strategies, Inc.
