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Where is the Accountability in Education?
By: Andrew R. Coulson. Why we need credible evaluations, content and programs to show ability for renewed competition to improve the tools we give our teachers.
What if Students Made a School?
By: Tom Carroll. As new education models grow are we ready to ask students to help us customize the staff, space, curriculum, tools, and time they NEED for deeper learning?
Just Where Did We Lose Those Educational Keys?
By: Ace Parsi. As part of a comprehensive assessment system, performance assessments can better inform both policy makers’ and educators' and have the potential to deepen that learning.
Why We Need to Teach Students to be Self-Advocates
By: Heather Benedict. How teachers and parents can teach self-advocay and why it's so important to the learning experience of students.
Getting To An Equation That Works
By: David Dockterman. With 60% of college freshmen unprepared for college math, and the rapidly growing number of STEM careers, an estimated 2.8 million of them by 2018. Our current equation for math education isn’t working. Here's an alternative.
Mississippi Mother: “I was not going to let my sons become yet another tragic statistic.”
By: Debra Dye. The honest story from a mother in Mississippi about the education of her sons and the realities of students with disabilities.
The Procurement Tightrope Shouldn’t Tie Districts in Knots
By: Robin Lake & Steven Hodas - Done right, procurement reform is a way for school districts to reimagine the role of stakeholder engagement, school-level decision making, strategic purchasing, research and development, and risk management.
School District Transformation through the Future Ready Initiative (#FutureReady)
By: Tom Murray. New initiative led by the Alliance for Excellent Education is working to support school district superintendents and their leadership teams on district-wide transformation.
Bringing Data to the School Enrollment Game
By: Steven Hodas. How data should be used in the decision process of schools to better support families and the solutions such as an API to help students and parents make important decisions.
Betting on a Better Counseling Approach for College and Careers
By: Scott Emerick & Clare Bertand. Closing the opportunity divide requires innovative solutions that empowers young adults to be informed consumers making choices that connect education, training, and meaningful career pathways.