Moving from a Portfolio of Schools to a Portfolio of Student Opportunities
This essay offers meaningful yet manageable steps that communities can take now to move toward more agile, student-centered learning systems.
Funding a Nimble System
This essay explores what it would take to ensure that personalized and weighted funding follows students across multiple learning experiences.
Local Governance for an Innovating System
This essay lays out a theory of integrated “light governance” of local schools, colleges, learning pathways, and special courses.
Educational Equality in the Future: Risks and Opportunity
With an eye to equity, this essay examines the implications of a more customized, agile system for disadvantaged students.
Beyond the Bell: Leveraging Community Assets for an Expanded Learning System
This essay explores ways to deliver more agile and responsive wraparound services and out-of-school learning opportunities for students.
Rethinking the Traditional High School-College-Career Continuum
This essay explores the systemic changes needed to ensure student access to meaningful pathways to college prep and career training.
To Serve Every Student Well, Design for the Tails, Not the Mean
This essay explores how an education system built to meet the needs of “square pegs” could benefit all students.
Learning in the Age of Agility: How U.S. Education Can Prepare Students to Solve the Problems of the Future
This essay introduces a set of ideas about how education can adapt to a rapidly changing world.
Thinking Forward: New Ideas for a New Era of Public Education
These essays rethink foundational aspects of the current education system and offer new ideas to shift the lens from schools to students.
