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 ›
Support From The Start: A 50-State Review of Policies on New Educator Induction and Mentoring
This report, published by the New Teacher Center, details state-by-state policy around support for new teachers. It examines state induction and mentoring program requirements for new teachers and principals, and their mentors. It also looks at state policies on teaching and learning conditions, now a recognized measure of school improvement under the Every Student Succeeds… Read More ›
Innovating Pedagogy 2015
This is the fourth in a series of yearly reports explores new forms of teaching, learning, and assessment for an interactive world, to guide teachers and policy makers in productive innovation. This fourth report, produced in collaboration with SRI International, proposes 10 innovations that are already in currency but have not yet had a profound influence on… Read More ›
Future Ready Learning: Reimagining the Role of Technology in Education
This report, the National Education Technology Plan, sets a national vision and plan for learning enabled by technology through building on the work of leading education researchers; district, school, and higher education leaders; classroom teachers; developers; entrepreneurs; and nonprofit organizations. Our schools, community colleges, and universities should be incubators of exploration and invention. Educators should be… Read More ›
Online Learning in Public Schools: Data from States and Districts
This blog post looks at the data on public schools from several states and districts. Source Organization: Keeping Pace with K-12 Digital Learning Visit the Resource
Real-World Projects: How do I Design Relevant and Engaging Learning Experiences?
In this book, project-based learning expert Suzie Boss explains how real-world projects engage and motivate students while teaching relevant, rigorous content and skills that align with standards and put learners on the path to active citizenship. Source Organization: ASCD Visit the Resource
Individual Learning Plans For College And Career Readiness: State Policies And School-Based Practices
This report, developed by NACAC & Hobsons, highlights promising state- and school-level practices using individual learning plans (ILPs) to prepare students for success beyond high school. It builds on previous research conducted by Hobsons with a national survey of high school counseling offices to better understand how schools are currently implementing ILPs. The study also… Read More ›
The Connected Classroom: Understanding the Landscape of Technology for Student-Centered Learning
This report, published by the Nellie Mae Foundation and Parthenon-EY, assesses the education technology landscape and pinpoints the needs of education practitioners pursuing student-centered learning practices. Across the country, educators and leaders have adopted, adapted, created and implemented a broad range of technology supports to help deepen student-centered learning opportunities. Source Organization: Nellie Mae Education… Read More ›
Deeper Teaching
In this paper, Magdalene Lampert provides a close, detailed description of “deeper teaching,” referring to the kinds of instructional strategies and moment-by-moment teaching decisions that enable students to learn deeply. She concludes by describing the kinds of early-career guidance and support that teachers will need in order to understand what deeper teaching entails and put… Read More ›
Partnership for Student Success: Providing Youth with Quality Programs Through the FY2013 Quality Enhancements in After School and Out of School Grant
This report documents the After School and Out of School Time (ASOST) Quality Enhancement Grant (line item 7061-9611) that provides high-quality expanded learning opportunities (ELOs) before school, after school, and during the summer months to students across the state of Massachusetts. Through this grant, public school districts, non-public schools, or community based organizations (CBOs) with… Read More ›