The Catalyst: A Journal of Ideas from the Bush Institute
We're Still Leaving Kids Behind
With the current national conversation on racial justice and equity, and COVID affecting the school year ahead, an honest conversation about American public education is more relevant than ever.
In this issue of The Catalyst, we engage a wide variety of voices to gain greater perspective on progress and insight into what's happening in the national education system. Most importantly, we address the challenges we have yet to overcome, the harsh reality that we are still leaving too many students behind, and the responsibility we have to ensure all students succeed.
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A Lifetime of Fighting for Education for All <[link removed]>
Thrust onto the front lines of the desegregation battles of the 1960s as a teenager, Virginia Walden Ford took the lessons she learned early in life and carried them to decades of impact in the U.S. education system.
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A Revolution in Expectations <[link removed]>
In his 50 years as an educator, Dr. Michael Lomax, president and CEO of UNCF, has witnessed expectations — and results — increase for Black, Latino, and low-income students. And while No Child Left Behind served as a catalyst for these expectations, we still have work to do.
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Data is Essential to Improve Student Outcomes <[link removed]>
While it's important that we tend to the immediate needs of our students and focus on how to reopen schools safely, we can't lose track of the need to improve our national education performance, writes Bush Institute Executive Director Holly Kuzmich.
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Education, Equity, and Opportunity: Unlocking Everyone's Potential <[link removed]>
Education policy — from school choice to funding to assessments — can help unlock access to opportunity for all, explains Derrell Bradford, Executive Vice President of 50CAN, in a conversation with Anne Wicks, the Ann Kimball Johnson Director of the Education Reform Initiative at the Bush Institute.
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The Power of Working Together to Achieve Systemic Change in Education <[link removed]>
Presidential Leadership Scholar Jamila Thomas turned an initiative to increase academic achievement for Black students to an institutional program adopted statewide in Texas. But that win is only a first step in bringing equity.
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