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Redesigning Schools for Financially Sustainable Excellence: Infographic!
Everybody loves a good infographic and we hope this one will change how you view education reform efforts.
New Models for Extending the Reach of Excellent Teachers: Seeking Implementers
We can all debate the relative importance of various education reforms, but one is little disputed: Excellent teachers produce more learning progress than other teachers, and they move kids on to higher-order learning.
Like Peanut Butter and Chocolate, Digital Learning and Excellent Teachers Go Well Together
Rather than seeing a painful (and politically volatile) trade-off between technology and teachers, we propose that digital education needs excellent teachers and that a first-rate teaching profession needs digital education.
City-Based Strategies For Excellent Charter Schools
A number of forward looking cities have set aside contentious debates about charter schools, and have instead chosen to embrace high-quality charter schools in their reform strategies. This is a welcome development for students stuck in underperforming schools. But these city-based movements are not without challenges.
Reformers: We Must Be Much Bolder to Reach Every Child with Excellent Teachers
Here’s the problem: even if our nation fully implemented most of the recommended legislation in the next decade, we still would be far behind other nations that made bolder changes years ago. In contrast, of course, many conservatives want to leave education up to state legislators, on whose watch K-12 education has plateaued and declined.
How Digital Learning Can (and Must) Help Excellent Teachers Reach More Children
In the digital future, teacher effectiveness may matter even more than it does today.
Khan Academy: Not Overhyped, Just Missing a Key Ingredient – Excellent Live Teachers
Rick Hess was right to question the simplistic hyping of Khan Academy’s online video lectures. But we think he’s only got it half-right: it’s less a matter of OVER-hyping than MIS-hyping the true potential of what Khan is doing
Building Parent and Community Demand for Turnarounds and Charters
My colleagues recently released a report about building parent and community demand for school turnarounds. Here I share their thoughts on what they found.
School Turnarounds: Time to Try, Try Again?
With unprecedented federal investment in failing schools through the multi-billion-dollar School Improvement Grant program, it’s been a big year for school turnaround efforts.
Class Size Just One Way to Extend Reach of Best Teachers
For those of you who missed it, David Brooks’ February 28 column touted the money-saving potential of extending the best teachers’ reach, by increasing their class sizes – in exchange for more pay. We’re encouraged to see more talk about this concept. But adding more kids to a great teacher’s class, or broadcasting that teacher’s lessons over the Internet, are just the most immediately available and straightforward forms of reach extension.
Current Strategies Won’t Solve Our Teacher Quality Challenges
In our new report, Opportunity at the Top: How America’s Best Teachers Could Close the Gaps, Raise the Bar, and Keep Our Nation Great, Emily Ayscue Hassel and I asked a simple question: “Will our nation’s bold efforts to recruit more top teachers and remove the least effective teachers put a great teacher in every classroom?” We ran the numbers and discovered a disappointing answer: No. Even if these reforms were wildly successful, most classrooms still would not have great teachers.
Fixing School Funding
School finance reform continues to light up debates whenever it arises. The Holy Grail here is a system that gets incentives right, allocating funding in ways that encourage schools and districts to do what’s best for kids, AND addresses the immense equity challenge posed by the various yawning achievement gaps.
3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education’s Best
Instead of just trying to recruit more great teachers, what if schools chose to reach more children with the great teachers they already have?
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