Tag: National

Policy Brief/Proposal

Do the Harder Work

New Venture Fund

A policy response to the Federal Commission on School Safety.

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Policy Brief/Proposal

Community Schools Playbook

Partnership for the Future of Learning

A practical, comprehensive guide for advancing community schools strategies, including a framework for what makes a community school, messaging, model legislation, and further resources.

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Research/Report

Educating the Whole Child

Learning Policy Institute

A report examining how schools can use effective, research-based practices to create settings in which students’ healthy growth and development are central to the design of classrooms and the school as a whole.

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Policy Brief/Proposal

Educating the Whole Child Brief

Learning Policy Institute

A brief reviewing research demonstrating that student learning and development depend on affirming relationships operating within a positive school climate.

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Education Equity Requires Modern School Facilities

University of California, Berkeley

A policy brief about how and why public school infrastructure remains the most regressive element of public education finance in the United States, published by the [Re]Build America's School Infrastructure Coalition (BASIC).

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Meaningful Local Engagement Under ESSA Issue 2

The Opportunity Institute

A handbook for state and local school leaders on engagement in school improvement efforts, including how to engage on needs assessments and priority-building, school improvement strategies, and resource alignment.

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Why Engagement is Essential for Educational Equity

The Opportunity Institute

An explainer that outlines 5 promising engagement practices that can lead to meaningful engagement and promote equity-focused policy centered around student educational excellence and success.

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Story / Case Study / Commentary

Disappointing But Not Surprising — California’s ESSA Plan Gets Some of The Harshest Feedback Yet From Washington

Children Now

An article describing the criticism from the federal Department of Education regarding California's plan to improve schools under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), and highlighting the concerns of parents and advocates about the lack of details and accountability in the plan.

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Mindset Shifts and Parent Teacher Home Visits

Parent Teacher Home Visits

A summary of findings from a study examining whether and how Parent Teacher Home Visits helps to interrupt implicit biases that educators and families may have about each other.

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Meaningful Local Engagement Under ESSA

The Opportunity Institute

A handbook for state and local education leaders that includes information about why engagement is essential to planning, strategies for making engagement more effective, and tools for building an engagement strategy.

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Clarity On School Funding: Are English Learners Getting Their Due

Children Now

An op-ed criticizing the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) in California for not fulfilling its promises to direct additional resources to help English learners, foster children, and impoverished students.

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What Makes a Good School?

Children Now

An editorial about the need for a new school accountability system in California, exploring alternative measures beyond standardized test scores and highlighting the importance of maintaining clarity and performance-based assessment while considering a more rounded look at school achievement.

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