How do you define and measure effective teaching, especially in high-minority, high-poverty schools? How do you end the intractable achievement and opportunity gap between affluent White students and their low-income counterparts of color? Last March, AISR’s executive director, Warren Simmons, participated in the Civil Rights Research Roundtable on Education, convened to address these questions by the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law...
Recent Publications
This brief but frequently ordered booklet has stood the test of time. First published in 1996, A Culture of Quality is a complex meditation on the features of an educational community that has conscientiously developed a collective culture of excellence in an ordinary American public school. Republished in 2011 – with an updated foreword and preface – the educational lessons outlined by author and teacher Ron Berger still resonate today.
In communities around the nation, youth organizing groups are becoming effective and powerful partners in school reform. Youth, as the people who spend each day inside schools and classrooms, have a huge stake in what happens in schools and bring a unique knowledge and perspective to reforms. As the articles in this issue, produced in collaboration with the Alliance for Education Justice, ...
This report is the first of a series of lessons learned from the Transatlantic School Innovation Alliance. The goal of this partnership is to improve teaching, learning, and educational leadership by creating a peer network of principals and practitioners in urban secondary schools in the United States and the United Kingdom. The report examines how policy shapes practice in these collaborative networks, which benefit educators by allowing them to share knowledge and best practices with...
The national Center for Education Organizing brochure describes the work, focus and services provided by the Center.