Since 2003, The Wallace Foundation has supported a range of initiatives in five cities to develop and test new, coordinated approaches to making high-quality out-of-school time learning opportunities available to more children. While much remains to be learned, we believe a coordinated approach holds considerable promise for building and…

Throughout their history, most black institutions of higher education have struggled against debilitating circumstances: antagonistic communities and legislatures, poverty, poorly prepared students, competition from white colleges, and program duplication with white institutions. In the period of serious desegregation at the elementary and…

This paper reports a 2-year study of education policy that sought to identify, describe, and analyze the essential building blocks of state-level education policy and to discover the factors responsible for creating differences among states in their use of these elements to construct an overall framework for school regulation and support. Sample…