College and Career Connections in Rural Schools
This is the second blog in a four-part series originally published on eduwonk.com. Though rural K-12 education in most places is performing reasonably well on traditional academic instruction, schools need to give young people better linkages, both to further learning and employment close to home, and to higher education and jobs in urban areas. Students […]
Ten Years After: What’s Next for New Orleans?
Last week educators, researchers, and policymakers gathered in New Orleans to take stock of how the public school system there is faring 10 years after Hurricane Katrina. The school system, as most know, was radically restructured in the post-Katrina recovery. To avoid recreating a centralized system that was rife with corruption and patronage, and that […]
