by briana@edudream.org | Dec 5, 2025 | News
Reflections from 2025: Commitment and Impact Through Core Values There’s a popular meme from the last few years that captures a universal feeling for many of us in equity-focused work: “The horrors persist, but so do I.” We’ve been balancing that duality all year....
by Smitten Admin | Apr 1, 2024 | Research
Contextual Analysis of Motivation, Engagement, & Persistence Recently, the COVID-19 pandemic has ushered in new far-reaching implications for student motivation, engagement, and persistence (MEP). Among the most impacted are Black, Latine, and students from...
by Smitten Admin | Jan 30, 2023 | Opinion
On Racial Healing: Using Data and Dialogue to Foster Learning As the nation observed Martin Luther King Day earlier this month, the United States is in an evolving space when it comes to acknowledging historical and present-day racism, and providing opportunities to...
by Smitten Admin | Jan 27, 2022 | Research, The Hub
A Standards-Based Reform 3-Part Series Through a three-part series, EduDream explores the extent to which Standards-Based Reform (SBR) addressed structural inequities in education and the unintended consequences and equity challenges that emerged. The series includes...
by Smitten Admin | Jun 25, 2021 | Research
Chicago Latine Needs Assessment: 3-Part Series For Chicago to remain an economic powerhouse, the Latine community must prosper through quality educational experiences, community programming, postsecondary and career training, and employment opportunities that provide...