Margot Ngo

Oct 31, 2024 | tcf.org | Tiara Moultrie |Denise Smith |Margot Ngo |Peter Granville

Wealth is important. A person’s wealth—measured by summing their total assets, such as a home, retirement savings, and emergency savings or rainy day funds, and subtracting debts such as student loans and medical debt—is a major indicator of that person’s economic security, helps them and their family weather economic downturns, and supports their overall well-being. But wealth is not distributed equally; in fact, there are staggering gaps in wealth when measured by gender and race.

Oct 10, 2024 | tcf.org | Peter Granville |Margot Ngo |Denise Smith |Qyana M. Stewart

Much of the current conversation in the higher education community is focused on value and the return on investment (ROI) that students obtain as a result of pursuing higher education. But while the nation seems to be reconsidering whether a college education is worth the cost, not enough attention is being paid to how individual institutions manage to provide a high ROI to students.

Oct 9, 2024 | tcf.org | Maggie Marcus |Margot Ngo |Alejandra Vazquez Baur |Chantal Hinds

In education circles, it’s relatively common to hear English learners (ELs) touted as one of the fastest-growing student groups in public schools. And that’s true—there are at least 1.5 million more ELs in the United States now than there were in 2000. Over speak one of more than 400 non-English languages at home. This growth means that these high-potential students are in essentially every community now, being served by schools in a wide range of ways.

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.

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.