Blog posts from 2010

By their early teens many young people today are already living quite adult lives—in the home, on the street—looking not only after themselves but often siblings, neighbors, and their parents. The Cristo Rey model of schools works for inner-city youth, in part, because they treat them as adults and give them real, adult responsibilities.

Guest contributor Paul Hill of the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) describes how big city school districts are pulling together many of the best ideas in education reform—small schools, chartering, more spending at the school level and less in the central office, performance-based accountability, continuous improvement and family choice—into a coherent package called a portfolio strategy.

In June of last year teachers, union and district officials, policy makers and researchers came together at a national meeting to discuss the growth of innovation zones inside school districts.

Education|Evolving’s new strategy paper Innovation-based Systemic Reform urges policy makers, in revising ESEA, to think of strategy as a ‘split screen.’ The only realistic approach is to pursue our differing goals at the same time.