Grantee Resources

Topic: Purpose of Education

Research/Report

Y-PLAN Partnership Brief: Oakland African American Male Achievement Initiative

Berkeley Institute of Urban and Regional Development

A research brief describing a partnership between the UC Berkeley Center for Cities + Schools and the Oakland Unified School District's African American Male Achievement (AAMA) initiative, highlighting the Y-PLAN (Youth - Plan, Learn, Act, Now) program's role in improving education, fostering civic agency, and developing real-world skills through project-based civic learning experiences.

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Story / Case Study / Commentary

Why Art? Presentation

California State University San Marcos Foundation

An interactive presentation that showcases artwork from a course exploring how the desire for social change has led artists and art movements to align with political and social causes.

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Policy Brief/Proposal

The Equity 8 – California’s Key Legislative Principles: 2020

Education Trust, Inc.

Ed Trust-West's annual analysis of the California budget and proposed legislation for 2020, identifying 8 key proposals with the potential to advance educational equity and justice for California’s students and educators; special COVID-19 edition focused on addressing the needs of students of colors and students from lower income communities in the wake of the pandemic.

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FosterEd, Antelope Valley Progress Report Year Two

National Center for Youth Law

An analysis of the educational data from the 2019-2020 school year of the Center for Youth Law's work in Los Angeles County in partnership with Palmdale School District to support the individual needs of children in foster care and systems change at a district level.

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Policy Brief/Proposal

Reclaim Social-Emotional Learning

New Venture Fund

A report that highlights examples of SEL from organizing praxis, problematizes current SEL frameworks (especially when SEL is used as another form of policing), and illuminates the connections between holistic safety and SEL.

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Advancing Equity at Scale-Up: Research Priorities for College and Career Pathways

University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Education

A report summarizing a three-year project designed to stimulate collaboration, build capacity, and prioritize research that can support equity in college and career pathways students' success.

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Policy Brief/Proposal

A Vision for California’s Schools this Fall: Equity for Dual Language and English Learners in an Unprecedented Moment

Education Trust, Inc.

A series of concrete, actionable ideas for how local and state education leaders can ensure that California's English learner and dual language learner (DLL) students were considered in return to school in fall 2020 in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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