Publication, Reports and Presentations, The Education Trust

We have a wide range of resources — much of which you can download for free:

-Thinking K-16
-Special Reports
-Data Presentations
-Recent Presentations
-Achievement Gap Theater

Special Reports

*Special reports can be downloaded for free. Users must have Acrobat Reader to view or download.

One Step from the Finish Line: Higher College-Graduation Rates are Within Our Reach:

Explains College Results Online, guides readers on how to use it and highlights the strategies of some successful colleges and universities.

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Choosing to Improve: Voices from Colleges and Universities with Better Graduation Rates:

Offers a more detailed examination of the practices of these schools and outlines a growing body of research that tells us that what schools do matters a great deal -- from their efforts to keep new students engaged to their use of data to uncover obstacles to completion.

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Stalled in Secondary: Three years after the enactment of the No Child Left Behind Act, student achievement in secondary schools is lagging, and too few states are narrowing achievement gaps.

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Measured Progress: This report documents that student achievement in reading and math is rising in the elementary grades in most states, and achievement gaps are narrowing, but in many places, the pace of these gains must accelerate dramatically if all students are to meet state standards by 2014.

The Funding Gap 2004: This updated report documents how most states continue to shortchange poor and minority students by failing to fairly fund the schools they attend.

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Improving Your Child’s Education: A Guide for Latino Parents: In this guide, we offer a number of suggestions for how you as a Latino parent can get involved and how you can better advocate for the education of your children. We also offer information that can be turned into powerful tools for you to exercise your rights as an involved Latino parent.

The ABCs of "AYP": Raising Achievement for All Students *Updated Summer 2004* A brief report detailing the basic principles and core requirements of Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) - the accountability mechanism in No Child Left Behind (NCLB). This report is one in a series on implementing NCLB.

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A Matter of Degrees: Improving Graduation Rates in Four-Year Colleges and Universities:

A new analysis reveals deep problems in the graduation rates at 4-year colleges and universities, but finds that some institutions do a much better job graduating some students than others.

Education Watch State Summaries 5/12/04: The state summaries are detailed reports highlighting data for each individual state in such crucial areas as educational performance by race, ethnicity and family income, and provides snapshots of in-state and cross-state achievement and opportunity gaps

Education Watch Achievement Gap Summary Tables 5/12/04: Part of the Education Watch series, this report uses National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) data to show which states are making the largest gains with minority students, which states are making progress moving students to higher levels of proficiency, and provides easy-to-read charts showing the progress each state needs to make to close the achievement gap.

Telling the Whole Truth (or Not) About Highly Qualified Teachers: This report reveals that while some states made good faith efforts to report honest data, others fell far short. A considerable number of states reported no teacher quality data at all, some states reported data that appears inconsistent, and many others failed to apply their own definitions of teacher quality before submitting their baseline data.

Telling the Whole Truth (or Not) About High School Graduation Rates: This report highlights the need for states to better report their high school graduation data. Ultimately, this data should result in greater awareness of how many students, particularly low-income and minority students make it through high school.

The Funding Gap Report (2003): This report documents large funding gaps between high- and low-poverty and minority districts in many states. The study reveals that, in most states, school districts that educate the greatest number of low-income and minority students receive substantially less state and local money per student than districts with the fewest low-income and minority students.

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Latino Achievement in America (2 pager): This brief two-pager documents the current status of Latino Achievement in America, High-Performing Schools, and ways communities can help close the achievement gap.

Latino Achievement in America (English) Logros Educativos de los Latinos en América (En Español)

African American Achievement in America -- This brief two-pager and PowerPoint documents the current status of African American Achievement in America, High-Performing Schools, and ways communities can help close the achievement gap.

African American Achievement in America PDF

African American Achievement in America PPT

What New “AYP” Information Tells Us About Schools, States, and Public Education:

This report documents how AYP provides important new information about academic achievement in America’s public schools. This year’s first-ever application of the AYP formula is providing the foundation for school improvement efforts in all 50 states by uncovering large achievement gaps, identifying schools that have made significant progress, and recognizing schools with high percentages of low-income and minority children meeting state proficiency benchmarks.

In Need of Improvement: Ten Ways the U.S. Department of Education Has Failed to Live Up to Its Teacher Quality Commitments

9/03/03 A brief report criticizing the U.S. Department of Education for failing to make adequate progress implementing the crucial teacher quality provisions in the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB).

All Talk, No Action: Putting an End to Out-of-Field Teaching

8/21/02 This report offers the first available state-by-state analysis of the newest federal data on the percentage of core academic secondary school classes taught by a teacher without a major or minor in the subject.

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ESEA: Myths versus Realities:

Answers to common questions about

the new No Child Left Behind Act.

The Funding Gap: Low-Income and Minority Students Receive Fewer Dollars

08/08/02 Education Trust releases a report documenting large funding gaps between high- and low-poverty and -minority districts in many states.

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Interpret With Caution: The First State Title II Reports on the Quality of Teacher Preparation

6/10/02 Education Trust releases its analysis of the first state Title II Reports on the quality of teacher preparation.

Real Results, Remaining Challenges: The Story of Texas Education Reform:

Spring 2001. By Craig Jerald for the Business Roundtable, Washington DC.

Education reform in Texas has attracted both fans and critics. In this report for the Business Roundtable, The Education Trust’s Craig Jerald looks at the data to help readers separate fact from fiction about the effect of Texas’s policies on raising student achievement and closing gaps between groups of students.

Creating an Appetite for Change: Leaders' Perspectives on Promoting K-16 Reform Through Community Collaboration

Policy Studies Associates, Inc., Washington D.C., 2000. 28 pages.

The Other Gap: Poor Students Receive Fewer Dollars

March 6 2001. An Education Trust analysis of state and local education dollars reveals substantial funding inequities in most states. Education Trust Data Bulletin. 3 pages.

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California's Hidden Teacher Spending Gap: How State and District Budgeting Practices Shortchange Poor and Minority Students and Their Schools. This report examines how spending on teacher salaries vary widely from school to school within districts.

Visit http://www.hiddengap.org/ to download report.

In Their Own Words: This report describes how too few California high school students are graduating ready for college and the workforce. The report features the voices of over a hundred parents, youth, advocates and educators from around the state who, in June 2004, testified before the Select Committee on College and University Admissions on how to implement a rigorous high school curriculum.
Revised February 2005.

“Growth Model” Hides Achievement Gaps: This report compares California’s Academic Performance Index (API) with the federal Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) model under the “No Child Left Behind” Act of 2001.

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Achievement in California: How is our Progress? This report examines the latest California school achievement data.

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