Civil Rights Project: Education Initiative

About this grant

This grant will provide partial support to Harvard University for the Harvard Civil Rights Project: Education Initiative. Through the initiative, the Harvard Civil Rights Project provides research and analysis on the civil rights dimension of two major interrelated education policy challenges — the impact of No Child Left Behind and the dropout/graduation crisis. In the most recent phase of this initiative, the Harvard Civil Rights Project has geared its analysis toward helping state- and community-level advocates and legislators promote research-based policy recommendations that result in more equitable outcomes and greater opportunities for poor and minority youth. During the next phase of the initiative, the Harvard Civil Rights Project will develop a model dropout accountability statute for states; extend its work into the southwest (particularly in the state of Texas); monitor the reauthorization of No Child Left Behind; and collaborate with other leading education and policy groups in building supports for greater educational opportunities for poor and minority youth.