Winners and finalists for the annual Broad Prize for Urban Education have consistently outperformed peer districts serving similar student populations. What makes the difference? These districts consistently demonstrate a learning loop that influences the district's ability to learn, which ultimately influences student opportunities to learn.…

Finalists for the Broad Prize for Urban Education demonstrate that identifying strategies that fit the local context is essential in creating success for students. Long Beach Unified School District in California and Broward County Public Schools in Florida demonstrate how districts can use different strategies to achieve the same goals.

Attacks the concept of neighborhood schools as being unsuitable to educate in the twenty-first century. Argues that temporary busing is the quickest way to achieve genuine integrated education. (JF)

The three approaches to bring about organizational change and meet the Los Angeles school district crisis are: administrative reorganization, curriculum and instructional improvements, and staff development. (JF)

Describes a process and a structure that reduced absenteeism in an inner-city school. (DW)

Argues that the urban educational system best serves its varied clientele and performs its diverse functions if there is substantial power, wisely administered, at both the local school level and at a central place in the school system. (JF)