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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?

Grantmakers for Education

Brown at 70: Reflections and the Road Forward

Spencer Foundation and partners

Measurement For Mobility: How States Can Use Data to Incentivize Postsecondary and Workforce Success in Public Education

Education Strategy Group and American Student Assistance

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April 2024

Philanthropy's New Voice: Building Trust With Deeper Stories and Clear Language

This report offers science-backed strategies for foundations to build understanding and trust, starting with the words they use and the stories they tell.

Council on Foundations
April 2024

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.

W. Clement & Jessie V. Stone Foundation
April 2024

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.

Education Commission of the States
March 2024

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.

Sobrato Philanthropies
March 2024

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.

Frameworks Institute
March 2024

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.

Schott Foundation for Public Education

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