This report provides our findings on how district and state leaders can improve feedback and support for teachers. Based on interviews with five school districts spanning urban, suburban and rural areas, we identified five essential practices: (1) Promoting a culture...
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As the state of Ohio looks to deregulate its education system in favor of for individualization and customization, our brief looks at the ways Ohio policymakers can use this new flexibility to increase student achievement. Based on research of other...
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This report, written in partnership with the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, provides a close look at how four pioneering districts are striving to put the Common Core into practice in their central offices, schools and classrooms. It focuses on how...
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We collaborated with a group of award-winning Oregon teachers and The Chalkboard Project to identify steps for supporting and strengthening teaching in the state. We found that high-impact strategies include new leadership pathways and compensation plans, better evaluations of teacher...
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States and districts are under increased pressure to turn low-performing schools around. In this paper, we review research on how experienced external partners and experts can help move schools through their reform process and leave them on a path to...
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In 2011, we worked with the W. Clement and Jessie V. Stone Foundation to organize a day-long session to help education grantees probe the specific challenges and possible paths forward that education organizations face as they grow, expand their reach...
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Federal stimulus spending for both economic recovery and education reform has not matched its ambitious intent. In this paper, we explore how the unprecedented flow of funding from the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA) into education impacted the field,...
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In 2009, we organized a day-long session for the W. Clement and Jessie V. Stone Foundation to give their grantees the opportunity to think deeply about the challenges and considerations involved in scaling up their organizations’ work. In this report,...
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