This year saw disruptions to schools and to students’ lives across the country. With a global pandemic shutting school doors, causing economic instability, and highlighting the impact of systemic racism, policymakers and education leaders are looking to data to help them respond and recover.
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Member Insights: Infusing Playful Learning into Everyday Places
Most kids spend just 20% of their waking hours in the classroom. How can communities harness some of the remaining 80% for meaningful and joyful opportunities to learn?
Brown at 70: Reflections and the Road Forward
Measurement For Mobility: How States Can Use Data to Incentivize Postsecondary and Workforce Success in Public Education
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December 2020
Districts Advancing Racial Equity (DARE) Tool
The Districts Advancing Racial Equity (DARE) tool provides information about evidence-based, high-leverage aspects of schooling that school leaders can use to create systems that build on the strengths of and respond to the needs of students of color. DARE synthesizes what we know about district actions that can support racial equity and provides a guide for district leaders to investigate their systems, set equity-oriented goals, and track progress over time. It includes a framework for district leaders and staff to understand the complex ecosystem of policies and practices they design and enact. The tool also contains a set of qualitative and quantitative indicators to support data-informed decision-making and track progress toward greater racial equity.
December 2020
Systems Change & Parent Power
We will never achieve the scale of change we want in education philanthropy unless we are willing to take on systems change, which requires changing mindsets, relationships and power to, in turn, change policies, practices and resource flows in education. And we’ll never succeed at systems change unless we are willing to wrestle with our biases towards parents and communities, support them in developing and exercising their innate power, and recognize that they need to drive the agenda.
This essay shares our work-in-progress journey on this, as well as the wisdom and guidance parent leaders in education have shared with us on how we work to earn a trusted, credible role with them.
December 2020
Time to Act 2020
December 2020
Teacher Effectiveness and Improvement in Charter and Traditional Public Schools
Study after study has found that new teachers tend to be less effective than educators with more experience. But despite having more junior staff, charter networks (referred to as CMOs) often outperform their district peers. So what’s their secret?
December 2020
National Poll: On the Eve of the 2020 Election, Education Was A Priority for Voters
Lake Research Partners designed and administered this election eve survey, conducted from October 31 through November 3, 2020, as part of an omnibus poll.
December 2020
Kids, Families and COVID-19: Pandemic Pain Points and the Urgent Need to Respond
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused widespread economic damage and isolated families in unprecedented ways.
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