Leaders of big-city portfolio strategies last longer on average than other school superintendents. But all eventually leave their jobs, whether for career or personal reasons or because local politics has turned against them. What makes...
Leaders of big-city portfolio strategies last longer on average than other school superintendents. But all eventually leave their jobs, whether for career or personal reasons or because local politics has turned against them. What makes...
This essay lays out a theory of integrated “light governance” of local schools, colleges, learning pathways, and special courses.
THINK FORWARDNEW ENGLAND REIMAGINING THE HIGH SCHOOL EXPERIENCE The Think Forward New England project, funded by the Barr Foundation, examines the opportunities and challenges high schools encounter when striving to create or revamp support systems...
This report complements our latest fall 2021 survey research from the American School District Panel with in-depth interviews of leaders on the ground in five school systems.
CRISIS BREEDS INNOVATION: Pandemic Pods and the Future of Education Appendix About This Project In the fall of 2020, the Center on Reinventing Public Education launched a national learning agenda on the small pandemic learning...
Cleveland came into the pandemic with a history of collaboration among civic organizations and schools.
Samantha* had been a veteran educator for fourteen years, first as a classroom teacher and then a principal, when the pandemic shut down schools. Last year, when she learned about the then-growing learning pod movement,...
This report summarizes a two-day seminar which addressed the question, “How Can Communities Do School Choice Right?” convened at the Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., in August 2004.
This study uses data from Seattle Public Schools to explore actual salary changes amidst rapid changes in economic context and the effect of the recession on teacher pay.
This paper argues that district-wide systems changes are necessary to encourage and free up schools to innovate, in order to implement personalized learning at scale and meet the challenges of Common Core.