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Equality of Educational Opportunity Must Recognize Success of Student Outcomes – Testimony to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Denial of opportunity has as much to do with what can be achieved — the outcome — as it does with not providing the simple offer of an opportunity. Indeed, it is nonsensical to argue equality of opportunity if there is no reasonable possibility of a positive outcome. It is not possible to mandate or universally expect an equality of outcome, but it is possible to address the conditions necessary to the exercise of opportunity to achieve a positive outcome and therefore fulfill the promise of equality of opportunity.
Improving Educational Opportunities and Outcomes for Military-Connected Students The Hampton Roads region is home to Virginia’s largest concentration of active-duty military members, with nearly 70,000 dependents of active-duty parents. If all these students attended one district, it would be one of the five largest in the entire Commonwealth. The reality, though, is that these students are scattered across many districts that often struggle to meet the academic and social-emotional needs of these military-connected students.
Charter Schools Would Benefit Virginia’s Military Families (From the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot) Virginia's Senate Democrats and a small number of Republicans earlier this spring defeated legislation making it easier to build more quality charter schools. This may prove most costly for Virginia’s military families, who will have to wait longer for ...
Announcing the Third Cohort of Lexington Education Leadership Award (LELA) Fellows Congratulations to our exciting new class of Lexington Education Leadership Award (LELA) Fellows, announced this morning.  Each of these pioneering education leaders has demonstrated through the application and interview process their desire to do even ...
Improve Educational Outcomes by Adopting Performance-Based Funding From the “only-in-government-could-this-be” files, school districts know that they can count on keeping their funding if they comply with the bureaucratic rules about how to spend it. But whether they produce any measurable results with their record-setting funding doesn’t seem to make any difference at all. Nowhere is this more true than in New York, a state that spends more per pupil than any other state, but consistently ranks near the middle in academic performance nationally (as measured by indicators like the National Assessment of Educational Progress and graduation rates).
Innovating to Accelerate Gains at Truesdell Education Campus in Washington, DC Truesdell Education Campus in the District of Columbia Public Schools, is quickly becoming one of the most innovative elementary schools in the region, with the student academic gains and outcomes to prove it. Central to this innovation is an instructional model that personalizes learning for all students, in a partnership with Summit Public Schools, a leading charter network with ten schools across California and Washington State. The partnership, called Summit Basecamp, supports partner schools around the country to explore or expand personalized learning.
From Good to Great Through Personalized Learning in Loudoun County, Virginia This fall, Northern Virginia’s Loudoun County Public Schools will introduce a new personalized learning approach in 15 elementary and secondary schools, adding a powerful strategy to the district’s overall vision of preparing students for an increasingly competitive, but collaborative world. Moving deliberatively - and quickly - to bring personalized learning to the large district may prove to be a key strategy in moving Loudoun to deeper, more relevant learning.
Announcing the Lexington Education Leadership Award (LELA) Fellowships Third Cohort We are pleased to announce that applications are now open for the third class of Lexington Education Leadership Award (LELA) Fellows.  Applications are online here and will remain open through April 10th. The LELA fellowship remains the only national i ...
Personalizing Learning to Narrow Achievement Gaps in Middletown, NY (Presentation Slides) When Superintendent Ken Eastwood and his leadership team in the Enlarged City School District of Middletown, New York launched their blended learning initiative, they committed to doing whatever it would take to support each student. They recognized that they needed to address the wide spread of student needs in a scalable and systematic way. This presentation, to a conference of educators with the International Association of K-12 Online Learning, discussed Middletown's personalized learning strategy, including major components, strategic timelines, and significant outcomes to date.
How Performance-Based Funding Can Improve Education (from Brookings) Is the annual expenditure on U.S. public elementary and secondary education appropriate and sustainable?  Reasonable people can disagree whether the current $600+ billion—5.4 percent of the nation’s GDP—is too much or not enough, especially when consid ...
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