Our Mission

All students — regardless of their skin color, families’ income, language spoken at home, or who they love — should have access to high-quality learning opportunities that allow them to achieve educational excellence. This is educational justice. And each day, we work to find solutions to reach it, preschool through college.

Through our research, policy analysis, and advocacy, we support efforts that:

• Promote rich, engaging high-quality learning opportunities
• Increase college access and completion
• Engage diverse communities to advocate for education equity
• Increase political and public will to act on equity issues

Our approach to this work is steeped in the larger social justice movement. It is informed by our theory of change, which includes four main components — all building on each other, with the aim of advancing positive outcomes that improve the lives of those who are historically underserved, including Black students, Latino students, and students from low-income families.

In these reports, we showcase the work we, along with our partners, are doing. With your continued support and partnership, we are building a movement toward educational justice.

All students need access to a high-quality, rigorous P-12 education to prepare for the opportunities and demands of the world outside of school doors. But too many young people — disproportionately African American, Latino, and Native students and students from low-income families — are getting an education that falls far short.

To help change these inequitable patterns and raise achievement for all students, we work alongside educators, advocates, and policymakers to identify causes of the achievement gap and to promote the practices and policies that will help close it.