The Promise of Extended Learning Opportunities: New, Powerful, and Personalized Options for High School Students
In this article, Nellie Mae Education Foundation president Nicholas Donohue describes the potential that expanded learning opportunities can have in systematically changing a learning ecosystem. Expanded learning opportunities can serve as a “sweet spot” for school-community partnerships and collaboration. Source Organization: The Nellie Mae Education Foundation VISIT THE RESOURCE
Necessary for Success: Building Mastery of World-Class Skills
This issue brief describes competency-based systems and reforms in districts and schools from Maine to Florida, and makes suggestions for education leaders around changing policy, fostering progressive public discourse, and supporting teachers. Source Organization: CompetencyWorks VISIT THE RESOURCE
Expanding Equity Through More and Better Learning Time
This article from VUE (Voices in Urban Education) discusses the More and Better Learning Time initiative which moves toward education equity by recognizing that though we all value extended and improved learning time, not all students have the resources to make it possible. College readiness calls for tapping the resources of the whole community — higher education,… Read More ›
How Media Portray Learning Space and Time
This report from the FrameWorks Institute’s Core Story on Education Project analyzes and identifies media frames regarding learning space and time. Key features of the media’s coverage of learning space and time include: Innovation in learning space and time is a private sector enterprise Global competition is the reason to reform learning space and time… Read More ›
“More than a Test Score” Campaign
The Providence Student Union challenged local community leaders to take an abbreviated version of the NECAP test (a graduation requirement). The adult test-takers’ results mirrored the results in Providence high schools; almost 60% received “substantially below proficient” and would be at risk of not receiving a diploma. Source Organization: Providence Student Union Visit the Resource
Expanded Learning Opportunities
This video was filmed, edited, and produced by high school youth employed at The Hub in Providence. It is an introduction to Providence’s Expanded Learning Opportunities. Source Organization: The Providence After School Alliance
Flipped Learning Letter to Parents
Revere High School offers resources for flipped learning which includes a letter that can introduce parents to the flipped classroom approach. Revere High School implemented flipped learning during the 2013-2014 school year. Through flipped learning, teachers and students work together so that students will obtain skills needed to be prepared for college and careers of the 21st… Read More ›
Mapping the Gaps on Assessment
This report from the Frameworks Institute’s Core Story of Education Project outlines comparative results from a series of parallel interviews with experts and members of the public. The results show major gaps between how these two populations understand and think about student assessment. Source Organization: FrameWorks Institute VISIT THE RESOURCE
Mapping the Gap on Skills and Learning
This report from the FrameWorks Institute’s Core Story of Education Project outlines comparative results from a series of parallel interviews with experts and members of the public. The results show major gaps between how these two populations understand and think about students’ skills and learning. Source Organization: FrameWorks Institute VISIT THE RESOURCE
It Takes a Whole Society: Opening Up the Learning Landscape in the High School Years
This report calls for a creating a richer fabric of learning opportunities for youth. A much broader segment of society needs to collaborate to find the means to engage young people in meaningful learning. Nearly one-third of the four million youth who enter high school each year will drop out. The over-reliance on one institution… Read More ›
Talking About Skills and Learning: A Frameworks Message Memo for the Core Story of Education Project
The first in a series of interpretive reports to emerge from the FrameWorks Institute’s Core Story of Education Project, this report outlines obstacles that prevent education reformers from engaging in meaningful public discussions about improving students’ skills development. Source Organization: FrameWorks Institute VISIT THE RESOURCE
Tackling the Challenges of Rural Community Partners
This webinar began with a brief presentation about rural community organizing from Dr. Mara Tieken, assistant professor of education at Bates College. Then, the leaders of three rural community organizations – Richard Witt, executive director of Rural and Migrant Ministries in upstate New York; Helen Johnson, founder of Citizens for a Quality Education of Holmes… Read More ›