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Building a Positive School Climate

Stephen Kostyo

Jessica Cardichon

Linda Darling-Hammond

Oct 03 2018
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A positive school climate supports student learning and success. The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) provides opportunities for states to address it and other non-academic indicators that affect student success. This brief describes how states can use data on school climate and what some states are doing, and suggests policies to improve it. It is part of the report Making ESSA’s Equity Promise Real: State Strategies to Close the Opportunity Gap.

Topics Accountability and Improvement, The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), Equitable Resources and Access
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Reducing Student Suspension Rates

Stephen Kostyo

Jessica Cardichon

Linda Darling-Hammond

Oct 03 2018
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Suspensions from school can disrupt student learning and inhibit students’ success. The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) provides opportunities for states to address suspension rates and other non-academic indicators that affect student success. This brief describes how states can use data on suspensions, what some states are doing, and policies to reduce suspension rates. It is part of the report Making ESSA’s Equity Promise Real: State Strategies to Close the Opportunity Gap.

Topics Accountability and Improvement, The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), Equitable Resources and Access
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Implementing an Extended-Year Graduation Rate

Stephen Kostyo

Jessica Cardichon

Linda Darling-Hammond

Oct 03 2018
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Extended-year graduation rates track students that graduate high school in 5 or 6 years. The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) provides opportunities for states to address this and other non-academic indicators that affect student success. This brief describes how states can use extended-year graduation rates to incentivize schools to continue working with struggling students to help them graduate. It is part of the report Making ESSA’s Equity Promise Real: State Strategies to Close the Opportunity Gap.

Topics Accountability and Improvement, The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), Equitable Resources and Access
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Expanding Access to a College- and Career-Ready Curriculum

Stephen Kostyo

Jessica Cardichon

Linda Darling-Hammond

Oct 03 2018
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College- and career-readiness is an important factor of student success. The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) provides opportunities for states to address it and other non-academic indicators that affect student success. This brief describes how states can use data on college- and career-readiness to measure and expand access to curricula that prepare students for the modern economy. It is part of the report Making ESSA’s Equity Promise Real: State Strategies to Close the Opportunity Gap.

Topics Accountability and Improvement, The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), Equitable Resources and Access
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Eliminating Chronic Absenteeism

Stephen Kostyo

Jessica Cardichon

Linda Darling-Hammond

Oct 03 2018
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Chronic absenteeism disrupts student learning and impedes students’ success. The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) provides opportunities for states to address it and other non-academic indicators that affect student success. This brief describes how states can use data on chronic absenteeism and what some states are doing, and suggests policies to reduce it. It is part of the report Making ESSA’s Equity Promise Real: State Strategies to Close the Opportunity Gap.

Topics Accountability and Improvement, The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), Equitable Resources and Access
Report

Educating the Whole Child: Improving School Climate to Support Student Success

Linda Darling-Hammond

Channa Cook-Harvey

Sep 07 2018
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Each year in the United States, 46 million children are exposed to violence, crime, abuse, homelessness, or food insecurity—experiences that can affect attention, learning, and behavior. This report looks at neuroscience, science of learning, and child development research on whole child approaches to education that improve learning for all students, especially those living with trauma.

Topics Deeper Learning, Deeper Learning: School Organization & Design
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Educating the Whole Child: Improving School Climate to Support Student Success

Linda Darling-Hammond

Channa Cook-Harvey

Sep 07 2018
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Students living with the toxic stress and trauma of poverty and crime can struggle to learn. Research on science of learning & development shows that these struggles can be addressed through whole child and positive school climate approaches that support academic, physical, cognitive, social, and emotional development — systems that put students’ healthy growth and development at the center of the classroom.

Topics Deeper Learning, Deeper Learning: School Organization & Design
Report

Making ESSA’s Equity Promise Real: State Strategies to Close the Opportunity Gap

Stephen Kostyo

Jessica Cardichon

Linda Darling-Hammond

Sep 05 2018
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Under the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), in addition to the required indicators of schools performance, states can select indicators to measure schools’ efforts to support students and provide equitable opportunities or to identify places where additional investments need to be made to improve education and support underserved students. This report documents how states are taking advantage of this opportunity to address disparities, make schools more inclusive, and help all students succeed.

Topics Accountability and Improvement, The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), Equitable Resources and Access
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Taking the Long View: State Efforts to Solve Teacher Shortages by Strengthening the Profession

Danny Espinoza

Ryan Saunders

Tara Kini

Linda Darling-Hammond

Aug 29 2018
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Most states have been struggling to address teacher shortages for several years, often filling the vacuum with underprepared teachers. Governors and legislators in many of these states are now working to turn the tide. A new report from the Learning Policy Institute focuses on six evidence-based policies that states are pursuing to address their teacher shortages that can help states build long-term sustainable systems to attract, develop, and retain a strong and stable teacher workforce.

Topics Educator Quality: Recruitment & Retention, Educator Quality
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How Money Matters for Schools

Bruce D. Baker

Jul 17 2018
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This brief is based on a report reviewing research on the role of money in determining school quality. The research found that schooling resources that cost money are positively associated with student outcomes. In addition to summarizing the report, the brief offers these policy recommendations: Ensure school finance reforms are linked to thoughtful standards and supports for students and teachers, invest more in students who have greater needs, and invest in human resources.

Topic Equitable Resources and Access

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Report

Untangling the Evidence on Preschool Effectiveness: Insights for Policymakers

Jan 31 2019

Research on early learning programs in the 1960s and 1970s revealed longlasting benefits, sparking investment in preschool programs. However, recent evaluations of two large preschool programs found mixed results, creating confusion about whether preschool programs can support student success. This report reviews these two studies and others in depth, and finds that when participants are compared to very similar students who did not attend preschool, the benefits of participation are typically found to be substantial.

Report

Essential Building Blocks for State School Finance Systems and Promising State Practices

Dec 05 2018

The cost for failing to properly invest in a high-quality public education for all children has grave implications for both the students and society at large. A new report shares essential state-level strategies and examples to help policymakers develop equitable and effective school finance systems.

Report

The Tapestry of American Public Education: How Can We Create a System of Schools Worth Choosing for All?

Oct 25 2018

Often forgotten in the policy debates on school choice are fundamental questions of whether and how choice influences access to high-quality schools, and whether, in our diverse democracy that requires common ground, choices promote or undermine integration. This report reviews research on a variety of school choice strategies and examines how public school choices can be managed to ensure all students have excellent schools to choose from and are chosen by excellent schools.

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