Last month’s Salesforce.org Education Summit brought together more than 10,000 education trailblazers from over 100 countries for a day of community-driven innovation aimed at driving student success in a whole new way.
One of the themes throughout the Summit was driving equity in education and supporting learners from all backgrounds. I had the privilege of hosting a panel session on Driving Equity in Education, featuring members of our current Impact Labs cohort: Derick Hutchinson, senior manager of college readiness at Houston Independent School District; Dr. Beatriz Joseph, vice chancellor of student success at Dallas College; Dominique Raymond, strategy director for partnerships at Lumina Foundation; and Dr. Jennifer Engle, director of U.S. program data at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Research shows tremendous disparities in the U.S. education system for Black and Latinx learners, disparities only made worse by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. That is one reason why
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