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Landscape Scan of Postsecondary Funder Collaboratives
This landscape scan from Grantmakers for Education's Postsecondary Access and Attainment Impact Group profiles funder collaboratives in the postsecondary education field, incorporating survey findings and interviews to shed light on opportunities, challenges and trends.
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50-State Comparison: State Postsecondary Governance Structures
This resource provides a comprehensive summary of the various entities that make up postsecondary governance ecosystems in each state and the District of Columbia.
Partnering for Postsecondary Success in Rural Texas
Although students living in rural areas perform academically on par with their peers, they are less likely to complete a postsecondary credential due to geographic, economic, and other barriers. Greater Texas Foundation, a private grantmaker focused on postsecondary student success in Texas, fosters rural collaborations as part of its philanthropic strategy.
This article reflects on lessons learned by foundation staff from this strand of work. It describes innovative models for postsecondary support developed by the foundation’s rural partners, discusses the need to balance direct program support and capacity building, and emphasizes the importance of visiting rural communities in person.
To conclude, the article suggests several ways funders can deepen their engagement with the rural communities they serve.
50-State Comparison: Early Care and Education Governance
This 50-State Comparison provides data on states’ early care and education governance systems, with a focus on the agencies that oversee these programs, the level of alignment of these programs and the advisory entities for early care and education in the state. Education Commission of the States has researched the policies and regulations that guide these key components in all 50 states to provide this comprehensive resource.
The Elements: Transforming Teaching through Curriculum-Based Professional Learning
State of Summer Learning: 2020 State Policy Snapshot
COVID-19 has illuminated the nation’s inequities in our school systems and communities like never before, shining a spotlight on the significant digital divide, food insecurities, childcare issues, and learning losses millions of underserved students and their families actually face every summer and into the school year.
Lessons Learned for Remote Learning and Hybrid Learning in COVID-19 and Beyond
This guide builds off of Dignity in School's Model Code on Education and Dignity to examine how to apply these principles to learning in the 2020-21 academic year during the COVID-19 pandemic, with some of the specific adaptations that will be required under these circumstances to fully protect the human right to education for all students.
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