“Leading indicators” in education — as in economics — can provide early signs of progress toward academic achievement and thus help district leaders and other stakeholders make informed decisions about efforts to improve student learning — before the test results come in. A new study by the Annenberg Institute, Beyond Test Scores: Leading Indicators for Education, looks at four districts — Chattanooga, Montgomery County (MD), Naperville (IN), and Philadelphia — that have developed leading...
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This report presents the results of a meta-review of eleven recent reports, evaluations, and audits of the Providence Public Schools. The report — conducted pro bono by the Annenberg Institute at the request of new Providence Superintendent Tom Brady — synthesizes what these reviews reveal about teaching and learning in Providence’s public schools and identifies important areas that the reviews do not sufficiently clarify. The meta-review is helping to shape an improvement plan developed by...
Putting Kids on the Pathway to College: How Is Your School Doing?
by Carol Ascher, Anne T. Henderson, and Cindy Maguire
COMPLETE TOOL SET
The complete tool set provides all the BTO tools in one publication: a framework and rubric, a student survey, a focus group protocol for students, and a focus group protocol and parent handout for families. Together, these tools enable high schools and their partners to get a multifaceted...
A report on a qualitative study of thirteen NYC high schools that are successfully preparing low-performing ninth-graders for timely high school graduation and enrollment in college. The study identified four key strategies used by these schools and offers recommendations for systemic support to maintain and scale up their success.
The No Child Left Behind Act created an audacious goal for American education: by 2014 – just seven years from now – all children must be "proficient" in reading and mathematics. But what, exactly, is proficiency? What would it take to bring all students to that level, and what role would organizations outside of schools play? This issue of Voices in Urban Education offers five perspectives on what "proficiency" looks like and how students can learn in and out of school to...