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Nov 18, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Casey Stockstill |Halley Potter |Jonathan Zabala |Conor Williams
This report is part of a research project in partnership with the Trust for Learning highlighting how early childhood programs can blend and braid funding to serve diverse groups of children.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Halley Potter |Casey Stockstill |Conor Williams |Jonathan Zabala
This profile is part of a research project in partnership with the Trust for Learning highlighting how early childhood programs can blend and braid funding to serve diverse groups of children.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Chantal Hinds |Halley Potter |Jonathan Zabala |Alejandra Vazquez Baur
Earlier this year, the Heritage Foundation released Project 2025, a roadmap for a presidential administration to enact far-right policies. If they were to become reality, these proposed policies would have far-reaching effects for Americans, from restricting health care access to exploiting child labor to decreasing environmental protections. In early learning and K–12 education, the changes would also be dramatic, and would include shuttering the U. S.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Jonathan Zabala |Alejandra Vazquez Baur |Conor Williams |Chantal Hinds
Imagine stepping into a new school where everything feels unfamiliar—new language, new faces, new rules. For many newcomer students—immigrants or refugees in their first few years of U.S. schools—this is their daily reality. This transition can be overwhelming and isolating, often leading to feelings of anxiety, loneliness, and academic struggles. But it doesn’t have to be that way. With the right support and resources, newcomer students can thrive in their new environment.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Chantal Hinds |Jonathan Zabala |Margot Ngo |Maggie Marcus
The needs of the 368,530 young people in our nation’s child welfare systemare many. A recent report from the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance highlighted the many ways that residential treatment facilities—which provide inpatient services to young people experiencing mental and behavioral health crises—are harming young people, including through abuse, unsafe conditions, and inferior education.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Stefan Lallinger |Jonathan Zabala |Conor Williams |Alejandra Vazquez Baur
This spring marked the seventieth anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education. For all of its shortcomings and still unfulfilled promises, Brown set off a wave of school desegregation and civil rights legislation and continues to serve as a cornerstone for educational equity.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Robert Shireman |Alejandra Vazquez Baur |Jasmine Brann |Jonathan Zabala
From Ohio’s College Credit Plus to Hawaii’s Running Start, dual enrollment (sometimes called dual credit) programs are spreading all over the nation. In these programs, eligible high school students can take certain college courses as part of their high school education. As Hawaii’s program name implies, dual enrollment is intended to give high school students a running start on gaining a college education. Dual-enrolled students are now a significant portion of college enrollment.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Margot Ngo |Alejandra Vazquez Baur |Jonathan Zabala |Maggie Marcus
Just three miles southwest of the famous New Orleans French Quarter, several dozen newly arrived students are learning math in Spanish. Survivor’s hit song “Eye of the Tiger” plays loudly from speakers in a third-floor corner classroom of Walter L. Cohen High School while Mr. Zavala’s students race to write everything they know about slope, y-intercepts, and the formula of a line on a worksheet.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Jonathan Zabala |Conor Williams |Maggie Marcus |Stefan Lallinger
In 2022, I taught a graduate class on dual-language immersion and English as a second language (ESL) for educators in a local school district. All of my students were in leadership positions at the school or at the district level. But when class started that fall, several of these students were abruptly sent back to classrooms to fill in teacher vacancies.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
tcf.org | Stefan Lallinger |Margot Ngo |Conor Williams |Jonathan Zabala
A recent study conducted to coincide with the seventieth anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education found that school segregation has increased over the past three decades, especially in urban areas. The researchers cited the proliferation of charter schools as one of two main reasons why segregation has exacerbated during this period, demonstrating an association between places with charter school growth and increases in segregation over the time period in question.
