Nothing beats watching @dcpublicschools' scholars shatter barriers 🚧
Thanks to the support of our educational village—@EdEquityLab, @Google, & @HowardU—our @CHECDC Griffins will learn data science, receive college credits, and earn certificates this fall 💙
#HULOVE
Here we go! I am elated that the @ObamaFoundation will break ground on the Obama Presidential Center in 2021—right next to the neighborhood where I grew up.
We're looking for graduate-level Policy & Research Assistants to assist our policy team in conducting and contributing research to serve as a companion to the 2018 paper on race and economic opportunity in the US. To learn more: https://t.co/zfFqstOvmX
A new study shows investing in low-income children often lifted their earnings over time and decreased their dependence on public aid https://t.co/uLb79s08N0
Had a great time presenting @OppInsights research at @theOunce Annual Policy Exchange in Chicago yesterday. Check out the ways these policy leaders are planning to use the info in their work!
“Access is not inclusion.” Enough said @tony_jack. Please check out his book The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students @EdTrust#SocialMobility
Great keynote at the #SocialMobility conference @EdTrust. “I’m lucky that there were adults who saw me as more than the sum of my mistakes,” @JohnBKing
Powerful student panel during @EdTrust@TIAAInstitute Social Mobility, Race, and Higher Education conference this morning. Themes: fear of debt, imposter syndrome, need for (culturally) competent counseling, students are more than stats, empower student voice
In our new blog, Laura Moore says that to improve upward mobility broadly in America, we must have a concerted focus around improving black opportunity generally and for black men specifically: https://t.co/JUphrJcrMO
My colleague at @OppInsights, Laura Moore, introducing the stark outcomes of our race-based research, whilst moderating the ‘Intersections of Race and Poverty In Education’ panel at #CPI2019
I've loved writing about Metro government, K-12 education and Tennessee politics for my hometown newspaper. I’m proud of what I was able to produce, and I will forever treasure all the people and sources I met along the way. Thank you, friends, for reading. 3/3
Opportunity Insights Policy Associate Laura Moore joined our team last summer after working as senior education advisor at the City of #Nashville (1/5)
High-quality #PreKforAll prepares young people for success in school and in life. Learn more about our Pre-K Roadmap https://t.co/9mDEwObNAv https://t.co/bWFgCEl5Zu