School Improvement
Every Student Succeeds Act
How ESSA Could Complicate Rural Turnarounds
Smaller school districts could face unique challenges in complying with the federal education law’s mandate for evidence-based strategies when it comes to improving their lowest-performing schools.
Education Funding
Opinion
Who Should Improve the School Improvement Industry?
The school improvement industry is an unruly collection of outsiders. New research offers insight for greater cohesion, writes Thomas Hatch.
School & District Management
Principals Dealing With Hostility and Division in the Age of Trump, Survey Shows
Most high school principals are grappling with hostile clashes between students and a swirl of other problems stemming from the political division and heated rhetoric during the Trump presidency, according to a new report.
School & District Management
Leader To Learn From
Taking Struggling Schools to New Heights
Nonprofit foundations usually influence how school leaders work. In the case of Superintendent Wendy Wyman, the reverse turned out to be true as well.
School & District Management
Questions About Credit Recovery Fall Disproportionately on Poor, Minority Students
The schools that rely most heavily on credit recovery to graduate their students are the ones that serve large populations of low-income and minority teenagers.
Education
Many States Lack Focus on Equity in School Improvement, Report Suggests
A study of 17 states finds shortcomings in their school turnaround approaches and says it can be hard to tell how states will sustain their school improvement efforts.
College & Workforce Readiness
A Math Remediation Effort Boosted Students' College Credits. But Did Learning Improve?
Tennessee offers college remediation in 12th grade, and it pays off with boosting students' enrollment rates in credit-bearing classes. The catch? Students didn't appear to be any stronger in math than their peers.
Every Student Succeeds Act
ESSA: How Can States Figure Out If New School Improvement Ideas Work?
Two nonprofits that work with states suggest in a new report that they develop procedures to build evidence and establish outside partnerships, among other strategies to vet school improvement ideas.
School & District Management
Opinion
Bridging Research and Practice Through a Scholarship of Improvement
Reflections from the Carnegie Foundation's inaugural Academic Symposium exploring the improvement movement in education.
School & District Management
Opinion
Learning Improvement Science
Reflections from a first-time attendee to the Carnegie Foundation Summit on Improvement in Education.
School & District Management
Leader To Learn From
'I Can Be a Catalyst': Schools Chief Steers His District Onto Right Path
Superintendent Emmanuel Caulk is executing on a plan to restore confidence in Kentucky’s Fayette County school system where financial troubles and inattention to low-income, nonwhite, and special education students had drawn criticism. He is recognized as a 2018 Leader To Learn From.
College & Workforce Readiness
Gates Seeks to Fund Creation of Networks to Guide Secondary School Improvement
Part of its recently announced $1.7 billion investment in K-12, the foundation is looking for groups to keep tabs on networks trying out different approaches to improve middle and high schools.
School & District Management
High School in Prime Time: A 'Super School' Event Friday Night
High school redesign gets a celebrity twist this week, with a national telecast that's meant to engage people nationwide in the work to create better high schools.
School & District Management
Opinion
School Improvement Hinges on Access to Student Data
The threat of litigation could motivate state officials to work with education researchers, write two law professors.
