50CAN: The 50-State Campaign for Achievement Now

Today in The 74 Million: A Learning Heroes Analysis of our State of Educational Opportunity in America: A Survey of 20,000 Parents finds that grades are losing ground as a meaningful tool to understand student progress. https://lnkd.in/ejHPD9Ya

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50CAN President Derrell Bradford has some thoughts for the Democrats at AEI's "What Will the 2024 Elections Mean for Education?" panel: "And here I will shiv my party. You can't be the party of college-educated people and not have a K-12 strategy to make more college-educated people."

Will President-Elect Trump abolish the Department of Education? At AEI's "What Will the 2024 Elections Mean for Education?" panel, 50CAN President Derrell Bradford suggests USDOE is not going away, despite campaign rhetoric.

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Earlier this month the advocacy organization 50CAN: The 50-State Campaign for Achievement Now published a nationwide survey of 20,000 parents, including over 300 in DC. We’re proud to see that DC parents reported the highest state participation in tutoring (see page 28). However, there remains a large gap between middle/high-income DC parents and low-income DC parents, which we will continue to address by offering and promoting high-impact tutoring throughout our city. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/ggNZCt6T #HighImpactTutoring #WashingtonDC #CommunityImpact #Education #TransformingEducation

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One of our clients at Penn Lincoln Strategies's clients 50CAN: The 50-State Campaign for Achievement Now, just released an extensive survey of over 20K parents (400 in CT). It had many significant takeaways but the one I was most taken with was this: "We found that students doing well inside the classroom are much more likely to have the opportunity to participate in a wide range of activities outside the classroom. For instance, two-thirds (66%) of those whose parents report they get all A’s participate in organized sports, compared to just four-in-10 (40%) who get mostly C’s and D’s, and only a quarter (24%) who get D’s and F’s." Another reason to keep your kids active. It's a great crossover to the work ACTIVE CITY INC is doing (where I serve as the President of the board) and why we continue to strive to remove the barriers for kids to access sports and other activities. Check us out and also the work that Steve Boyle is doing at 2-4-1 Sports to connect kids with sports.

Let’s hear it for hearing from parents! 🙌🏻 Well done, 50CAN: The 50-State Campaign for Achievement Now 🎉