Reports

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  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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  Diversifying the Teaching Profession: How to Recruit and Retain Teachers of Color

  Desiree Carver-Thomas

  Apr 19 2018

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  More and more states and districts are recognizing that recruiting and retaining teachers of color can help meet their students' needs while also helping to curb critical teacher shortages. But prospective teachers of color encounter unique barriers to entering and staying in the profession. High-retention pathways—combining high-quality clinically rich preparation with financial support—can be especially effective at reversing those trends.

  Topics Educator Quality, Educator Quality: Recruitment & Retention​, Equitable Resources​ and Access
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  Building an Early Learning System that Works: Next Steps for California

  Hanna Melnick

  Beth Meloy

  Madelyn Gardner

  Marjorie Wechsler

  Anna Maier

  Jan 23 2018

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  There is overwhelming evidence that children’s early years, from birth through preschool, are a crucial time for their development, and that high-quality early learning opportunities support children’s school readiness, promote later life success, and yield a return of up to $7 for every $1 invested. Providing access to high-quality ECE for all children in California will require a comprehensive approach to turning an uncoordinated set of underfunded programs into a true system of supports for children, families, and providers. A complement to LPI’s earlier report Understanding California’s Early Care and Education System, this report examines the challenges California’s counties face in providing ECE and provides recommendations for improving access to high-quality ECE for all children.

  Topic Early Childhood Learning
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  The Promise of Performance Assessments: Innovations in High School Learning and Higher Education Admissions

  Roneeta Guha

  Tony Wagner

  Linda Darling-Hammond

  Terri Taylor

  Diane Curtis

  Jan 18 2018

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  A new study looks at the use of performance assessments for both K-12 learning and college admission, placement and advising. The study is the first research produced through Reimagining College Access, a national initiative of the Learning Policy Institute and EducationCounsel that for the first time brings together k-12 and higher education policy and practice leaders to recognize and foster high-quality k–12 performance assessment systems.

  Topics Deeper Learning: Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment​, Deeper Learning: College, Career & Civic Participation, Deeper Learning
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  Community Schools as an Effective School Improvement Strategy: A Review of the Evidence

  Anna Maier

  Julia Daniel

  Jeannie Oakes

  Livia Lam

  Dec 14 2017

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  Education policymakers working to address the impacts of growing economic and racial inequality on students often look to community schools as an effective approach for supporting students and their families in communities facing concentrated poverty. This report, which synthesizes findings from 143 rigorous research studies, finds community schools can improve outcomes for all students, and especially those facing lack of access to high-quality schools and out-of-school barriers to learning.

  Topics Equitable Resources​ and Access, Accountability and Improvement, Deeper Learning, Deeper Learning: College, Career & Civic Participation, Deeper Learning: School Organization & Design
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  Expanding High-Quality Educational Options for All Students: How States Can Create a System of Schools Worth Choosing

  Linda Darling-Hammond

  Robert Rothman

  Peter W. Cookson, Jr.

  Dec 14 2017

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  For many years, states and the federal government have been creating a range of schooling options for students, and the focus of the new Administration on expanding choice is likely to accelerate this trend. This report examines the status of current educational options for U.S. students and what state policymakers can do to create high-quality opportunities that offer each family a system of schools worth choosing.

  Topic Equitable Resources​ and Access
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  How Money Matters for Schools

  Bruce D. Baker

  Dec 13 2017

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  For decades, some politicians and pundits have argued that “money does not make a difference” for school outcomes. While it is certainly possible to spend money poorly, this viewpoint is strongly contradicted by a large body of evidence from rigorous empirical research. This document presents a brief explanation of the goal of school finance reforms, followed by summaries of the main bodies of evidence that illustrate how equitable and adequate school funding improves student outcomes.

  Topic Equitable Resources​ and Access
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  Taking Deeper Learning to Scale

  Pedro A. Noguera

  Sep 13 2017

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  This report analyzes the efforts of schools and school districts to improve academic achievement, particularly among students who have been historically underserved. Three case studies provide insights into both the potential of using deeper learning as a reform strategy that can lead to greater equity in academic outcomes and the obstacles that have prevented others from obtaining similar results.

  Topic Deeper Learning
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  Minority Teacher Recruitment, Employment, and Retention: 1987 to 2013

  Richard M. Ingersoll

  Henry May

  Greg Collins

  Aug 28 2017

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  Although the number of minority teachers more than doubled between 1987 and 2012, high turnover rates have undermined efforts to diversify the teacher workforce. Improving school organization, management, and leadership can support improved retention of minority teachers, according to this report, which examines and compares the recruitment, employment, and retention of minority and nonminority teachers over the past quarter century.

  Topics Educator Quality, Educator Quality: Recruitment & Retention​

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