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Member Insights: Infusing Playful Learning into Everyday Places
Most kids spend just 20% of their waking hours in the classroom. How can communities harness some of the remaining 80% for meaningful and joyful opportunities to learn?
A Farewell from EdFunders' Chief Program Officer
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The 9:30 Call: From Crisis to Enduring Community and Action
For funders and more working in early childhood or on issues needing greater stakeholder alignment, this case study offers lessons about the collective power of community to create momentum towards change. Funded by the W. Clement & Jessie V. Stone Foundation.
Governors’ Top Education Priorities in 2024 State of the State Addresses
Forty-two governors have signaled their policy priorities through their State of the State addresses so far this year. We identified education-related trends in in our report in collaboration with the National Governors Association.
Navigating the Past to Shape the Future of English Learner Education
This report explores the history of English learner education in California for lessons on creating equitable and inclusive public schools.
Connections and Communities: Reframing How We Talk About Opportunity Youth
This resource shares how to activate more productive mindsets about young people using the Connections and Communities narrative.
Justice Is the Foundation
This action brief shows that despite a chorus of funders committing to changing their grantmaking practices amid the racial justice protests of 2020, grant dollars awarded to racial equity and racial justice work have declined compared to the period before it. The brief provides a number of starting points for those interested in making the necessary changes in their grant strategies.
Small Towns, Big Opportunities: Many Workers in Rural Areas Have Good Jobs, but These Areas Need Greater Investment in Education, Training, and Career Counseling
This report counters to some degree the popular narrative that rural America has been “left behind,” with data on the percent of the working popoulation that holds a share of the country's good jobs. It also provides recommendations to mitigate the region’s high labor-force non-participation rate, low bachelor’s degree attainment rate and overall population decline.
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