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Dear Colleagues,

When we launched FutureEd as a solution-oriented think tank six years ago, we wanted to contribute to the important work of improving educational opportunities and outcomes, especially for students that the nation’s schools and colleges have served least well. We wanted to be a trusted, pragmatic source of insights and ideas on elementary and secondary education and, on a smaller scale, early learning and higher education. We wanted to help policymakers and practitioners promote educational equity and social mobility.

To help pursue that work, we have rebuilt our website with fresh branding to help visitors navigate what is now a substantial body of work on topics ranging from post-covid recovery to resource inequity, chronic absenteeism and school staffing. Our URL remains the same: www.future-ed.org
New Work
[link removed]’re releasing two new projects on educational equity today.

The first is a collection of essays ([link removed]) by experts with important perspectives on American education that together represent a new, post-pandemic equity agenda for the nation’s schools and colleges. The authors include:
* Josh Anderson, a former Teach For America executive, on why education reform ([link removed]) alone won’t promote social mobility
* Delia Kimbrel, senior director of research and policy at ImpactTulsa, on a new strategy ([link removed]) for bringing down barriers to equal educational opportunity
* Ted Mitchell, the president of the American Council on Education, on a new equity agenda ([link removed]) for higher education
* Anthony Salcito, former vice president of worldwide education at Microsoft, on the best strategy for introducing new instructional technology ([link removed]) in schools post-pandemic
* Jeff Selingo, a leading author on college-admissions and former editor of the Chronicle of Higher Education, on the debate over the benefits of attending college ([link removed])
* Zahava Stadler, director of the Education Funding Equity Initiative at New America, on the next school finance reform agenda ([link removed])

[link removed]’re also publishing a new report ([link removed]) by FutureEd Senior Fellow Lynn Olson outlining the barriers to teacher diversity and the most promising steps that school districts, states, the federal government, and teacher-preparation programs can take to attract and retain more teachers of color. The report includes a scan of teacher-diversity initiatives in every state legislature during the past five years and a national survey of K-12 teachers’ perspectives on teacher diversity conducted for FutureEd by the RAND Corporation.
New Team Members

We’re delighted to announce that Liz Cohen has joined the FutureEd team ([link removed]) as our policy director. Liz’s wide-ranging experience in the education sector includes roles at the District of Columbia Public Schools’ Office of Data and Accountability, the Office of the State Superintendent in the District of Columbia, 50CAN, the Institute for Children, Poverty, and Homelessness, the Urban Institute and, most recently, Whiteboard Advisors.
Gordon Wright, who played a major role in the development of the new FutureEd website, has joined our communications team.

And we have added three distinguished educators to our network of advisors:
* Kaya Henderson, chief executive officer of Reconstruction US and the former chancellor of the District of Columbia Public Schools, is our newest senior fellow.
* Dan Goldhaber, who has written extensively on the teaching profession as director of both CALDER and CEDR, is joining our research advisory board.
* Jason Okonofua, an assistant professor at the University of California-Berkeley who is doing cutting-edge research on school climate and student-teacher relationships, is also becoming a research advisor.

We welcome your feedback on our work and our new website and we value your thoughts on new ways we can contribute to smart education policymaking in the months ahead.

Best wishes,

Tom

Thomas Toch
Director, FutureEd
McCourt School of Public Policy
Georgetown University
[email protected]
@thomas_toch
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