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Lessons Learned: Urban Middle Schools Turnaround
June 6, 2013In April 2013, Partners in School Innovation presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Partners undertook a study that was intended to provide insight into the turnaround...
Partners receives Excellence Award
June 5, 2013Partners in School Innovation, in partnership with Applied Materials, has been announced as the recipient of $25,000 through the Director’s Award in the CECP Excellence Awards. This award is among the...
Continuous Improvement in Education
May 29, 2013A new white paper entitled, Continuous Improvement in Education by...
Vouchers: A Band-Aid for the Equity Gap?
April 26, 2013Louisiana's Supreme Court recently ruled that the state's new private school voucher system can continue, despite a fervent outcry to halt the program from many public agencies and private organizations....
Teacher collaboration in practice
March 22, 2013At Partners, we often describe our approach as working shoulder to shoulder with teachers and leaders. Fostering collaboration is at the heart of our work, and while individual teachers can and often do...
How Does the US Compare?
February 27, 2013On January 28th, The Economic Policy Institute released a report in which researchers Martin Carnoy and Richard...
A Note on California Student Funding
January 29, 2013You may know that California ranks 49th overall in student investment by state in this country, at $8,482 per child, and that this is 28 percent below the national average of $11,824. But did you know...
Partner Highlight: Everett Middle School
November 29, 2012With the recent release of Academic Performance Index (API) and California Standards Test (CST) data, there has been a wave of press releases and news articles talking about student achievement results....
An “Irresistible Investment Opportunity”
October 2, 2012In 2011, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said, “High-quality Early Childhood Education programs are arguably the best investment our country can make.” One of the plenary sessions at last week’s...
In a Time of Political Divide, a National Consensus Emerges
September 18, 2012In August 2012, Phi Delta Kappan and Gallup released findings from their 44th annual survey, The Public’s Attitudes...










