Students of color from low-income backgrounds are often told they must leave their communities to find success. This ‘leave to succeed’ mindset poses a significant threat to students’ identities and prompts unsettling questions about whether marginalized communities are inherently inferior. Nancy Gutiérrez’s new book, Stay and Prevail: Students of Color Don’t Need to Leave Their Communities to Succeed explores how schools and districts can support student success while honoring students’ background, culture, and history. Join our research experts and The Hunt Institute for a conversation about why students of color leave their low-income communities to find success and how we can change the narrative on what defines success for low-income students.

As states evaluate the effectiveness of their learning recovery strategies, the analyses are missing the full spectrum of diverse learners. As of 2022, less than a third of pandemic impact analyses disaggregated data to evaluate implications for students with learning differences. Prior to the pandemic, students with disabilities consistently underperformed relative to their neurotypical peers, a trend which has been magnified by lack of access to services to due changes in learning environments as well as long term educator shortages for both general educators and special education service providers. This lack of consistency is correlated with another alarming trend, spiking suspension rates for students with disabilities. Join The Hunt Institute’s K-12 Homeroom with Education Experts Webinar, Beyond Recovery: Neurodivergent Learners and Learning Loss to explore responsive solutions aimed at moving beyond the narrative of learning recovery and into a vision of student success for all learners.