The Institute for Educational Leadership has always been ahead of the curve. In 1985, Harold Hodgkinson, a renowned demographer who ran IEL’s Center for Demographic Policy, published a seminal report, All One System: Demographics of Education, Kindergarten through Graduate School. The report was significant in laying out trends we see today – a growing number of young people of color in the education system and the opportunity this trend offers for the vitality of the nation.
The report was a demographic study outlining major demographic shifts in our population, focusing in particular, on the changes from early childhood education through college and career systems. READ MORE…