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FutureEd
Приєднався 20 лис 2019
FutureEd is an independent, solution-oriented think tank at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy. We are committed to bringing fresh energy to the causes of excellence, equity, and efficiency in K-12 and higher education on behalf of the nation's disadvantaged students. As a nonpartisan, public-facing organization, we work to produce clear, compelling analysis on key education issues for policymakers, practitioners, the media, and other key education change agents and influencers at the federal, state, and local levels-promoting smart policymaking in a complex and fast-changing educational landscape.
Webinar: Rhode Island's Statewide Strategy for Addressing Chronic Absenteeism
Under the leadership of Governor Daniel McKee, the Rhode Island Department of Education has built a statewide coalition of mayors, business leaders, hospitals and other stakeholders beyond the state’s education ecosystem to get students back to school-a strategy that is yielding impressive early results. Eighty-nine percent of the state’s 64 school districts lowered their chronic absenteeism rates in 2023-24 from the previous year, as did 82 percent of Rhode Island schools.
In this FutureEd webinar, moderated by Policy Director Liz Cohen, we explore Rhode Island’s innovative cross-sector, data-driven approach to improve chronic absenteeism. The event features Governor Daniel McKee, Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education Angelica Infante-Green, Newport Mayor Xay Khamsyvoravong, and Partnership Rhode Island Executive Director Tom Giordano.
In this FutureEd webinar, moderated by Policy Director Liz Cohen, we explore Rhode Island’s innovative cross-sector, data-driven approach to improve chronic absenteeism. The event features Governor Daniel McKee, Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education Angelica Infante-Green, Newport Mayor Xay Khamsyvoravong, and Partnership Rhode Island Executive Director Tom Giordano.
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WEBINAR: A Report Card on the College Remedial-Ed Reform Movement
Переглядів 87Місяць тому
In the early 2010s, a broad coalition of stakeholders launched one of the most impressive reform movements in American education: fixing college remedial education. For decades, hundreds of thousands of entering college students-including more than half of community college students-had been relegated to “developmental” courses in reading, writing and basic math that few managed to finish, offe...
Applying Lessons from Advocacy Research to Expand Tutoring in Public Education
Переглядів 703 місяці тому
What led to the rapid spread and adoption of tutoring as a solution? What will it take to bring tutoring to the scale? And what can the science of advocacy teach us about how other policy ideas might follow a similar path? In this AdvocacyLabs webinar, FutureEd Policy Director Liz Cohen moderated a discussion with panelists including Stanford University Professor Susanna Loeb, JerseyCAN Executi...
Rethinking Gifted Education
Переглядів 1264 місяці тому
Few policies in public education have been as contentious as how schools identify and educate their most academically able students. Some seek to dismantle gifted-and-talented programs, exam schools, and other advanced offerings, arguing that they promote racial and economic segregation, while others defend current programs that exclude millions of capable students. But a new model of advanced ...
Scaling and Sustaining High-Quality Tutoring
Переглядів 1697 місяців тому
As many as 80 percent of school districts and charter school organizations have launched tutoring programs to help students rebound from the pandemic. The challenge now is to scale evidence-based tutoring that gets results and sustain it beyond the fast-approaching deadline to spend federal pandemic-relief funds. To learn more about how districts are doing this, FutureEd Policy Director Liz Coh...
Taking the Science of Reading to Scale
Переглядів 15011 місяців тому
Through their legislative advocacy, parents and advocates lit the spark that launched a reading revolution in more than 30 states. But now the new “science of reading” laws must go into practice in the classroom. To that end, states and districts are retraining teachers, revamping curricula, screening students, and embedding these changes for the long-term benefit of students. It’s a massive ta...
State Policy Solutions for Reducing Student Absenteeism
Переглядів 110Рік тому
Many solutions to spiraling chronic absenteeism focus on what educators and schools can do on the ground. Increasingly, though, legislators and advocates are exploring state-level strategies to help local educators tackle the absenteeism problem. Moderated by FutureEd Associate Director Phyllis Jordan, the panel includes: -Hedy Chang, executive director, Attendance Works -Rep. Dan N. Johnson, U...
The Changing Private-school Choice Landscape
Переглядів 154Рік тому
As states’ 2023 legislative sessions come to a close, FutureEd hosted a conversation about the new wave of private-school-choice programs in Arkansas, Arizona, Iowa, and elsewhere. We explored the potential for these programs to impact both individual student outcomes and the public education system in a robust conversation with Arkansas State Senator Breanne Davis, lead sponsor of the Arkansas...
Teachers Like Us: Strategies for Increasing Educator Diversity
Переглядів 216Рік тому
A diverse teaching force, research makes clear, benefits all students-improving attitudes about race and young people’s sense of self-efficacy. Yet while students of color comprise more than 50 percent of public school enrollment nationally, nearly 80 percent of teachers are White. In many states, most students attend schools and districts that do not employ a single teacher of color. Why shoul...
Solving the Teacher Shortage Challenge
Переглядів 215Рік тому
School districts have faced enormous challenges in staffing the nation’s nearly 100,000 public schools since the start of the pandemic, prompting some states and districts to lower standards for entering the teaching profession. FutureEd hosted a conversation with national experts to explore more effective strategies for attracting and retaining teachers in the months and years ahead. Moderated...
Unfinished Agenda: The Future of Standards-Based School Reform
Переглядів 200Рік тому
Sharp declines in reading and math scores during the pandemic have highlighted the continuing need to align high standards with high-quality curriculum and instruction in the nation's classrooms. FutureEd and CenterPoint Education Solutions hosted a conversation on how to help local educators complete the unfinished agenda of standards-based reform. Moderated by FutureEd Director Thomas Toch, t...
FutureEd Congressional Testimony
Переглядів 402 роки тому
FutureEd has spent several months analyzing local school districts' Covid-relief spending plans. Associate director Phyllis Jordan shares this research during the House Committee on Education and Labor back to school hearing.
Local Perspectives on Spending Covid Relief Aid
Переглядів 1182 роки тому
With billions in federal Covid-relief aid flowing to K-12 schools, what do we know about how school districts and charter organizations plan to spend it? What challenges are local educators facing as they decide how to use this unprecedented infusion of federal aid? In a March 15 webinar, FutureEd and Burbio explore what we’ve learned about local spending plans and what’s next for reporting exp...
Closing the Student Attendance Gap
Переглядів 3373 роки тому
A new FutureEd report on attendance trends suggests that student absenteeism during the pandemic has been far greater during than previously reported, especially among younger children and disadvantaged students. Left unchecked, this level of absenteeism threatens to undermine derail efforts to help students make up for lost instructional time post-pandemic. We will soon share the tape of our J...
Innovations in Teaching During the Pandemic
Переглядів 2053 роки тому
The coronavirus pandemic has wreaked havoc on the education sector. But it has also led some schools and school districts to embrace innovative staffing and scheduling strategies that could be valuable post-pandemic. FutureEd, Education Resource Strategies, and EducationCounsel brought together educators for a virtual conversation with educators about how these innovations are playing to teache...
Voices from the Classroom: Teachers on Teaching in a Pandemic
Переглядів 3463 роки тому
Voices from the Classroom: Teachers on Teaching in a Pandemic
D.C.'s Public School Lottery: A Look Back, a Look Forward
Переглядів 1744 роки тому
D.C.'s Public School Lottery: A Look Back, a Look Forward
As growth seems to be a better measurement than proficiency for encouraging the success of all students and seems to me also would be a fairer measurement of education success compared to wealth-driven proficiency, why is growth not the standard measurement encouraged by the federal government?