This paper details the portfolio management approach—a new vision for education reform that fosters innovation, adaptability, and performance.
It moves past the one-size-fits-all approach to education. Portfolio systems place educators directly in charge of their schools, empower parents to choose the right schools for their children, and focus school system leaders – such as in a district central office or school authorizer – on overseeing school success.
This paper details the portfolio management approach—a new vision for education reform that fosters innovation, adaptability, and performance.
This report provides a practical discussion of what is required to develop a school district management guide, along with an actual guide built on evidence-based indicators.
Based on a survey and on interviews with superintendents from the nation’s largest urban districts, this study explores the working life of urban superintendents. This report is second in second in the Center’s leadership series....
This is the research brief for the second report in the Center’s leadership series; an examination of large-district school superintendents.
This report summarizes the functions of school boards, identifies some of the problems with big city school boards, and suggests options for reorienting boards around the trusteeship of the children they serve.
An increasingly pressing issue impacting the quality of educational services in the United States is the country’s growing need for new public schools equipped to meet the unique demands of this generation’s students and policy...
This paper analyzes big-city high schools: how they function and how the education of the low-income minority youth in these high schools can be improved.
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