Education and Race Resources

Looking for education and race resources? You’ve come to the right place! Currently, our resources are slightly California-centric; that’s our service area after all. If you have region-specific resources please share them with us as we would love to broaden our scope. Any suggestions, additions, or comments? Have a great site or article that you want to share? We would love to hear from you! Please use the “Contact the REP| button on the right.

General Information

Applied Research Institute: Education

  • Site Summary: Wow! This site has information on education, immigration, health, poverty and policy. It also has sections specifically targeted to the needs of journalists, researchers and activists. A one-stop for resources to support your race-based advocacy. The education section provides links to recent documents of interest. Take a look at Facing the Consequences, a research/policy piece worth a read.
  • Suggested Uses: A great general information site for current events and non-region specific education and race information.

Ethnic Majority: Education

  • Site Summary: Ethnic Majority provides listings, links, and summaries of recent articles and studies on education and race.
  • Suggested Uses: A good starting point for research on current education and race issues. Ethnic Majority has a free newsletter to help you stay current.

Poverty & Race Research Action Council: Education

  • Site Summary: This site provides a listing of recent articles, PRRAC advocacy project updates, current PRRAC projects, available grants, and a research guide.

Race and Ethnicity Education Statistics

California Department of Education

  • Site Summary: Comprehensive data and statistics collected from California schools and learning support resources.
  • Suggested Uses: Offering broader data than Ed-Data but with a less user-friendly interface, this site is suggested for complex data needs. The site contains a various reports including statewide testing results in Excel format. Still can’t find what you need? Take a look at the at the Data Resource Guide which allows users to generate custom reports on school, district, county or sate levels for a variety of attributes such as race, free lunch, and LEP status.

Ed-Data

  • Site Summary: Fiscal, demographic, and performance data on California’s K-12 schools.
  • Suggested Uses: If you need California specific education data this is the place to go.

National Center for Education Statistics

  • Site Summary: This is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education.

Print and PDF Materials

Applied Research Institute, Facing the Consequences, 2000

  • Summary: Facing the Consequences examines statistical evidence establishing racial inequalities and discrimination in U.S. public schools. The study finds that on every key indicator, from dropout rates and discipline rates to access to advanced placement courses and entrance into college, students of color are at a serious disadvantage compared to their white counterparts.

Bingham McCutchen LLP, Morrison & Foerster LLP, Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe LLP, Preserving Diversity in Higher Education, 2004

  • Summary: “Preserving Diversity is a tool for admissions officers, general counsels, and others involved in crafting admissions policies.” Equal Justice Society.

Sharing Resources

Please share your education and race resources. Whether these resources are in the form of a research memo, a presentation, or a web site, sharing resources allows us to maximize our collective impact. We can make documents available for general or restricted release according to your preference. If you have a education and race issue that you can’t resolve, let us know. We may have something to help in our restricted-release document cache. Please include your name, organization, position, and a description of the type of information needed and for what purpose it will be used. We will try our best to assist you.