Nationally and in Ohio, we work to promote policies and practices that help children born into poverty transcend their disadvantages and enter the middle class as adults, with a particular focus on what role our schools can play. Through publications, events, and commentary, we advocate for proven paths to the middle class, including high-quality career and technical education, a focus on high-achieving disadvantaged students, and the "Success Sequence."
Resources:
- Education for Upward Mobility
- The Education for Upward Mobility Conference
- Career and Technical Education in High School: Does It Improve Student Outcomes?
Our many upward-mobility-related blog posts are listed below.
Fordham’s upward mobility experts:
Let's ensure that all kids have access to gifted programs in Illinois
4.4.2016
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How tracking can raise the test scores of high-ability minority students
David Griffith 3.30.2016
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Challenges to the pursuit of equity in excellence
3.23.2016
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The Education Equality Index: Reasons for frustration and hope
3.22.2016
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High-potential students thrive when school districts develop sustainable gifted services
3.16.2016
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Poor and working-class Americans have gotten hammered. Here's how to help their children do better.
Michael J. Petrilli 3.16.2016
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One size may fit most, but certainly not the gifted and talented
3.10.2016
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Detroit is failing its students, and politicians are failing Detroit
3.8.2016
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Whose America is it? Why I want my students to read Ta-Nehisi Coates but believe Lin-Manuel Miranda
Robert Pondiscio 3.7.2016
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Leaving talent on the table: Fixing gifted education in America
3.2.2016
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Advocating for high-achievers
Brandon L. Wright 2.24.2016
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