a future beyond test scores alone
A future beyond test scores alone: Innovative schools need support to measure other learning outcomes.
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Why diversity is essential to school innovation
What works for some doesn’t work for all, and what’s working for those on the margins could be completely unknown.
Stop Ignoring the Innovation That Happens in Traditional Public Schools
Schools across the country are leading change from within. Why don't we know more about them?
Why we need diverse data to know what works in education
By focusing on what works for students on average, education research risks mistaking important anomalies for noise in the data.
Standardizing school innovation data
This report urges school innovation funders, intermediaries, and researchers to help enable interoperability between datasets that are currently siloed.
How to build better collective data on school innovation in 5 simple steps
Missing the diversity of innovative school practices also means missing models that have the potential to transform the learning experience and drive better outcomes for students.
Our picture of school innovation is incomplete. Can it be fixed?
Missing the diversity of innovative school practices also means missing models that have the potential to transform the learning experience and drive better outcomes for students.
School innovation knowledge is trapped in an echo chamber. We can break out of it
The inability to paint a more complete portrait of school innovation nationwide shackles how promising practices evolve and spread.
The walled garden effect: Why sharing doesn’t always create shared progress in education
The walls around our data 'gardens' make it impossible to get the bigger picture for how schools are shifting towards student-centered models.
Why word of mouth on school innovation is holding us back
Word of mouth is a common way to discover schools that are innovating, but there are a few important shortcomings to that strategy.