Coalition of Essential Schools
This organization is a diverse network of schools committed to creating and sustaining personalized, equitable, and intellectually challenging schools. Coalition of Essential Schools (CES) provides opportunities for professional development and networking amongst member schools. CES Affiliate Centers provide technical assistance to schools committed to the CES vision. CES also advocates for local, state, and national conditions… Read More ›
The New Opportunity to Lead: A Vision for Education in Massachusetts in the Next 20 Years
This report, commissioned by the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education, is a call to revamp the education system in Massachusetts in order to lead the world in preparing students for the demands of the 21st century. The report calls for an approach that focuses less on compliance to state mandates to one that creates conditions… Read More ›
Four Steps to Transforming a School
This article looks at the four practices that, taken together, create a transformational school environment; an environment where students exhibit agency by achieving academically and taking ownership of their learning. Source Organization: Getting Smart Visit the Resource
Innovations in Developmental Education Redesign
This case study series documents the various approaches that eight Florida colleges have taken in responding to SB 1720. It highlights the decisions and processes colleges consider when implementing developmental education reform at scale, and captures lessons learned throughout the implementation process. The series is based on interviews and site visits Jobs for the Future… Read More ›
Heavy Lifting: The State Capacities Required for Scaled Developmental Education Reform
This brief draws on the experience of four states in Jobs for the Future’s Postsecondary State Policy Network—Connecticut, Florida, North Carolina, and Virginia—that are among a very small number of states engaged in statewide developmental education reform. Developmental education is increasingly a target of reform for state policymakers. Rigorous research has exposed developmental education as a… Read More ›
Success in Real-Time: Using Real-Time Labor Market Information to Build Better Middle-Skill STEM Pathways
This report encourages states to support their colleges as they use high-quality, real-time labor market information to align the creation of middle-skill STEM pathways with robust career opportunities, and provides recommendations and examples for how states can do so. Source Organization: Jobs for the Future Visit the Resource
Policy Meets Pathways: A State Policy Agenda for Transformational Change
This report, released by Jobs for the Future, says that a decade of interventions and improvements have fallen short because states and campuses have not taken large enough steps to address their biggest challenge—helping the 12.8 million students enrolled in community colleges earn postsecondary degrees and credentials to find good jobs. The report argues that campuses and… Read More ›
Keeping Pace with K-12 Digital Learning: An Annual Review of Policy and Practice (2015)
This report documents the state of digital learning across the country each year. The 2015 report follows the shift in the larger landscape towards more school control of online learning with more emphasis on the users and developers of digital learning and more school program examples throughout. First the authors provide a broad report on… Read More ›
Students Help Design Measures of Social-Emotional Skills
This article explores how Washoe County District, a district in Reno, Nevada, put social-emotional learning in the forefront of their education system. A growing body of research connects skills like responsible decision making, empathy, and responding to emotions with both greater engagement in the classroom and improved academic outcomes. Washoe County District, launched a social-emotional learning… Read More ›
Every Student Succeeds Act Primer: High School Dropout Prevention and Reengagement of Out-of-School Youth
This three-page document provides a comprehensive overview of the Every Student Succeeds Act and its provisions that support High School Dropout Prevention and Reengagement of Out-of-School Youth. The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) of 2015 includes provisions that support state and district efforts to prevent students from dropping out of high school, and to reengage out-of-school youth. It… Read More ›
The Fantastic New Ways to Teach Math that Most Schools Aren’t Even Using
This article, written by Corey Drake, Associate Professor and Director of Teacher Preparation at Michigan State University’s College of Education discusses a short list of ideas and teaching practices that will support how students learn math, and why it is important for teachers to implement them. The list explores teaching practices that work to make student learning meaningful… Read More ›
Advancing Deeper Learning Under ESSA: Seven Priorities
This brief recommends seven ways for supporters of deeper learning to take advantage of the changing education policy landscape, as authority shifts from the federal government to states and local districts. The authors outline priorities to help the nation’s high schools move from a largely inequitable system to one that prepares all students for college… Read More ›