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Download full textBrinson, Dana; Boast, Lyria; Hassel, Bryan C.; Kingsland, Neerav – Public Impact, 2012
New Schools for New Orleans (NSNO) commissioned this guide, in collaboration with the Louisiana Recovery School District and the Tennessee Achievement School District, to meet the Investing in Innovation (i3) requirement that grantees disseminate the lessons of their work. To create this guide, NSNO worked with Public Impact to build on prior…
Descriptors: School Districts, Urban Education, Educational Change, Academic Achievement
Direct linkWhitehurst, Grover J. – Center on Children and Families at Brookings, 2015
The Brookings Institution releases an annual Education Choice and Competition Index (ECCI) that chronicles how school choice is manifested in the nation's 100+ largest school districts. The ECCI scores and ranks districts on the degree to which families within the district's borders have access to: (1) maximum choice; (2) a choice process that…
Descriptors: School Choice, Competition, School Districts, Educational Change
Whitehurst, Grover J. – Brookings Institution, 2014
Exploring the critical role of school choice in the future of education reform, the Education Choice and Competition Index (ECCI) is an interactive web application that scores large school districts based on thirteen categories of policy and practice relevant to choice. The intent of the ECCI is to: create public awareness of the differences among…
Descriptors: School Choice, Competition, School Districts, Educational Change
Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2010
Over the past two decades, charter management organizations (CMOs) have become a significant force in the public K-12 charter school landscape. CMOs, nonprofit entities that directly manage public charter schools, are meant to meld the benefits of school districts--including economies of scale, collaboration among similar schools, and support…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, School Districts, Performance Factors
Whitehurst, Grover J. – Brookings Institution, 2012
Exploring the critical role of school choice in the future of education reform, the Education Choice and Competition Index (ECCI) is an interactive web application that scores large school districts based on thirteen categories of policy and practice relevant to choice. The intent of the ECCI is to: create public awareness of the differences among…
Descriptors: School Choice, Competition, School Districts, Educational Change
Smith, Kim; Petersen, Julie – Bellwether Education Partners, 2011
It is widely acknowledged that innovation will be necessary to dramatically improve public services in America. But innovation in the public sector doesn't happen in a vacuum; innovation happens at the nexus of policy, research, capital, and practice. This project looks at one case study--education--by analyzing some of the key aspects of an…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Educational Innovation, Ecology, Education Work Relationship
Peer reviewedBrown, Pamela M. – Education and Urban Society, 2006
Many cities throughout the United States are experiencing rapid population growth and an increased demand for public services delivered in safe, livable neighborhoods. Some of those cities have recognized the need to offer an improved urban school system for their residents and have begun to embrace the charter school movement through the use of…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Community Services, Population Growth, Public Service
Louis, Karen Seashore – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2006
Each of the articles included in this issue launched the author backward into nostalgia and reconsideration of her own work as they motivated her to ask new questions in current and future studies. The author's goal, therefore, is not to provide a linear road map through the articles but to point to themes and ideas that run through the project…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Foreign Countries, School Districts
Fullan, Michael – 1982
This book is concerned with educational change affecting elementary and secondary schools in the United States and Canada. A wide range of innovative programs are discussed as examples of the practical meaning of change, including projects involving various curriculum areas, microcomputers, career education, open-concept schools, desegregation,…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Adoption (Ideas), Consultants, Educational Attitudes
