March 13, 2023
While the COVID-19 pandemic spotlighted and uncovered new issues pertaining to student health, policymakers and educators have struggled with identifying, funding, and implementing strategies to support the physical and mental health of students...
December 12, 2022
Over the past few decades, public and private Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) experienced steep declines in federal funding. While most institutions of higher education have received lower state and local appropriations since...
December 7, 2022
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) are vital to higher education. Yet, many land-grant HBCUs have received lower levels of funding since their inception. Over the past few decades, in fact, inequity in land-grant university funding...
December 5, 2022
For years, local education agencies (LEAs) have struggled to recruit and retain teachers. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated these issues, as increased stress and pressures led to more teachers exiting the profession. In Missouri, the state’s...
November 16, 2022
In North Carolina, student populations are becoming more and more racially and ethnically diverse, while educator diversity lags behind. When research has clearly shown that a diverse teacher workforce positively impacts achievement of all students,...
November 1, 2022
Last year, as states and districts across the country grappled with academic and social and emotional learning loss, states and districts were still in a state of triage, learning about the full impacts of school closures while supporting students...
October 24, 2022
A diverse teacher workforce has the potential to improve outcomes for all students, and especially for students of color. While North Carolina clearly recognizes the importance of increasing diversity in the workforce - and despite national and...
August 16, 2022
Dr. Robert C. Carr is a research scientist at the Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy. In a research brief titled “Measuring Educational Opportunity in North Carolina Public School Districts,” Dr....
June 22, 2022
In the nearly 70 years since the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark anti-segregation ruling in Brown vs. Board of Education, America’s K-12 and higher education settings have become more richly diverse. But the same is not always true of American...
June 1, 2022
The Hunt Institute has released the third and final brief of the three-part Attainment for All: Equity in Postsecondary Pathways series. This brief brings the discussion on equity full circle by examining the use of disaggregated data to narrow...
