The Education Trust is a national non-profit advocacy organization that promotes high academic achievement for all students at all levels, particularly for students of color and low-income students. It was founded for one reason and one reason alone: to push, prod, and cajole their country toward educational justice.

From its beginnings in the early 1990s, the unrelenting advocacy continues to be supported by solid data analysis, equity-focused legislative proposals, strong partnerships with leading organizations, and proven strategies to improve the educational outcomes of their nation’s youth.

With these tools it aims to expose — and eliminate — the gaps in opportunity by race and income that have led to enormous gaps in educational achievement, pre-K through college. These gaps can severely limit economic and social mobility.

Mission

The Education Trust promotes high academic achievement for all students at all levels — pre-kindergarten through college. The goal is to close the gaps in opportunity and achievement that consign far too many young people — especially those from low-income families or who are black, Latino, or American Indian — to lives on the margins of the American mainstream. 

Their Core Beliefs

• It believes in the power of education to close the gaps that separate low-income students and students of color from other young Americans.
• It believes schools and colleges, appropriately organized, can help virtually all students master the knowledge they need to succeed.
• It believes long-standing gaps in opportunity, achievement, and attainment have roots inside and outside of schools. And though they know these gaps are stubborn, they also know they are not inevitable.
• It believes a strong education improves the lives of young people, is vital to sustaining their democracy, and strengthens America.