Last month, we brought together an amazing group of individuals, the leaders of our Closing the Achievement Gaps Initiative sites. At our annual convening, teams of local union leaders, educators, and superintendents spent several days studying successful reform models co-constructed by districts and unions, identifying practical applications to improve student performance, ... Read more »

Every year, foundations provide billions in grants for education. Yet, our education system is in crisis: American schoolchildren — especially those from vulnerable communities — remain trapped in a continuous cycle of inequities in educational access and opportunities. How can philanthropy be more effective at deploying its limited resources to help reform and improve our ... Read more »

From Washington to statehouses across the nation, conversations about education are focused on innovation like never before. Innovation funding from the U.S. Department of Education has fostered a climate in which seeking new ways of doing things is hailed and rewarded at the highest levels of state and federal government. But when it comes to applying this to the work of ... Read more »