Promise Abandoned: How Policy Choices and Institutional Practices Restrict College Opportunities

Promise Abandoned sharply criticizes trends in federal, state, and college practices that discourage low-income and minority students from enrolling and graduating from college. In fact, despite the perception of progress, gaps in college-going and college completion for poor and minority students are actually wider than they were thirty years ago

Teaching Inequality: How Poor and Minority Students Are Shortchanged on Teacher Quality

This report from the Education Trust provides new information on the impact of teacher quality on student achievement and offers specific steps states should take to remedy the persistent practice of denying the best teachers to the children who need them the most. The report also offers some key findings of soon-to-be released research in three states -- Ohio, Illinois and Wisconsin -- and major school systems within them. Funded by The Joyce Foundation and conducted with policymakers and researchers on the ground, the research project reveals that schools in these states and districts with high percentages of low-income and minority students are more likely to have teachers who are inexperienced, have lower basic academic skills or are not highly qualified -- reflecting troublesome national teacher distribution patterns

Engines of Inequality: Diminishing Equity in the Nation's Premier Public Universities

The nation's 50 flagship universities serve disproportionately fewer low-income and minority students than in the past, according to this report by the Education Trust. Students in the entering and graduating classes at these schools look less and less like the state populations those universities were created to serve. The study shows how financial aid choices made by these prestigious public universities result in higher barriers to college enrollment and success among low-income students and students of color

Education Leadership: A Bridge to School Reform

Contains highlights from the foundation's 2007 national conference, including commentary on the foundation's education leadership initiative and extended excerpts from two of the conference's keynote speakers