Third in a CRPE Blog Series on Education Governance as a Civic Enterprise I’m often asked how CRPE’s portfolio model differs from the vision put forth in my friend Andy Smarick’s book, The Urban School...
This paper explores ways districts can reduce the costs (in terms of lost school productivity and lost training investments) of teacher turnover.
For the second year in a row, many school districts are not ready to switch kids to remote learning if in-person school is interrupted. While most large districts offer full-time remote learning, parents had to...
Student enrollment is falling at public schools across the country, impacting funding streams and threatening financial solvency, as schools continue to be on the hook for considerable fixed costs like loans or debts. Having to...
Introduction More Early Adopters are piloting systemwide AI strategies Early Adopters focus more on students, mostly with new tools Reimaginers keep pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with AI Districts must advance more coherent AI...
School opening, like mask wearing, has become a wedge issue in national politics. First, Senator Rand Paul attacked Dr. Anthony Fauci for excess caution on the topic. Now President Trump is demanding that all schools...
With school buildings across the country shut down for an unknown period of time, educating students necessarily means massive changes in how educators deliver instruction and how school and system leaders support these efforts. It...
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...