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But Is It Operationally Feasible? Lessons Learned from Pursuing Public Value
(2022-10-28)
In May 2019, Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot was elected as Chicago’s 56th Mayor. From the very beginning of her tenure, Mayor Lightfoot’s administration prioritized building a more equitable city by expanding opportunity and ...
Language considerations in refugee education: languages for opportunity, connection, and roots
(Informa UK Limited, 2021-10-05)
Currently 26 million people live as refugees, 40% of whom are school-aged. As global policy shifts to include refugee children and young people in education systems in settings of exile, language-in-education emerges as ...
The Purposes of Refugee Education: Policy and Practice of Including Refugees in National Education Systems
(SAGE Publications, 2019-07-16)
<jats:p> This article explores the understood purposes of refugee education at global, national, and school levels. To do so, we focus on a radical shift in global policy to integrate refugees into national education systems ...
Disrupting the Racialized Power Imbalance Between Home and School: Working Toward a New Mental Model for Family Engagement
(2021-10-15)
The COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally rearranged the boundaries between home and school. Chelsea Public Schools (CPS), which was fully remote for most of the 20-21 school year, sought to make use of this historic opening to ...
Disrupted Data: Using Longitudinal Assessment Systems to Monitor Test Score Quality
(Wiley, 2022-02-03)
Technical documentation for educational tests focuses primarily on properties of individual scores at single points in time. Reliability, standard errors of measurement, item parameter estimates, fit statistics, and linking ...
The Complexity of Solving for Racial Inequalities in Advanced Courses: How Collective Processes Can Support the Quest for Equity
(2021-10-15)
College credit bearing coursework, such as Advanced Placement and dual enrollment in college classes, provides a variety of benefits to students who take and complete these courses. Students in advanced classes have access ...
Work that Matters: Activating Student Voice to Codesign Antiracist Schools
(2021-10-15)
The story of High Tech High (HTH) is an extraordinary startup story. After opening a single high school in September 2000, HTH has evolved into an integrated network of 16 charter schools, serving approximately 6,350 ...
Developing Novel Approaches to Analyzing Vocabulary, Syntax, and Discourse Structure in Fifth-to-Eighth Grade Argumentative Writing
(2021-05-14)
This dissertation consists of three studies on adolescents’ argumentative writing. Standards, assessments, and most research in the field of adolescent writing development rely primarily on holistic rubrics to analyze ...
It Takes a Team: An Intentional Approach to Increasing Black and Latino Innovators in the NewSchools Portfolio
(2021-10-15)
Philanthropy plays a significant role in our society, wherein large foundations or individuals with significant wealth identify societal needs and use their financial power to address matters they deem important. Philanthropists ...