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A vital resource for educational leaders, Entry Planning for Equity-Focused Leaders introduces an equity-minded process for intentional entry planning that sets the stage for sustainable change within organizations. In this practitioner-focused and action-oriented work, Jennifer Perry Cheatham, Rodney Thomas, and Adam Parrott-Sheffer consolidate their extensive experience centering equity in leadership.

Recent Posts > Growing and Sustaining Science Classroom Communities We think about three important features of our classroom communities to highlight as a foundational for equitable classroom communities. First, how teachers and administrators open up or constrain opportunities for students to talk and shape science practices in the classroom set the tone for the remainder of the school year.

A comprehensive analysis of the astonishing changes that elevated the Chicago public school system from one of the worst in the nation to one of the most improved. How a City Learned to Improve Its Schools tells the story of the extraordinary thirty-year school reform effort that changed the landscape of public education in Chicago. Acclaimed educational researcher Anthony S.

On December 7, 2022, President Biden announced a new initiative “to provide all students with the opportunities they need to access and excel in science, technology, engineering, math, and medical (STEMM) fields” (EdWeek, 2022). This initiative joins similar ones previously proposed by both Democratic and Republican administrations at the beginning of their terms. Yet, little seems to change. There continues to be too few qualified and interested young people to fill the demand for STEM workers.

A toolkit of strategies for postsecondary instructors to use to cultivate safe, inclusive learning spaces and improve teaching. Based on work conducted through the Instructional Moves project at Harvard University, outlines the many ways in which good college and graduate school teaching is rooted in deliberate pedagogical choices that support active learning. Jeremy T.

Recent Posts > Can a Better Understanding of How Teacher Evaluation Works Help Improve Its Design? How can we support all teachers so that they continue to learn and improve throughout their careers? How can we ensure that all students receive high-quality instruction every day in every classroom? These were some of the motivating questions that prompted forty-four US states to implement reforms to their teacher evaluation practices in the early 2010s.

Marketing Schools, Marketing Cities Who Wins and Who Loses 
When Schools Become Urban Amenities by Maia Bloomfield Cucchiara Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. 275 pp. $30.00 (paper). Ever since the landmark 1966 Coleman Report, educational researchers have queried the impact of school and classroom composition on student achievement. The results, in general, have been consistent: students from low-income families demonstrate greater academic success, on average, in low-poverty schools.

Recent Posts > White Ignorance in Global Education Until recently, there has been little attention paid to racism and White supremacy in global education circles, despite clear associations between the International Aid System and its colonial and racist foundations.

Race at the Top Asian Americans and Whites in Pursuit of the American Dream in Suburban Schools Natasha Warikoo Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. 240 pp. $24 (cloth). What does it mean to be a good parent? Natasha Warikoo’s Race at the Top: Asian Americans and Whites in Pursuit of the American Dream in Suburban Schools invites readers—parents and those without children—to grapple with the anxieties and judgments that this question inspires.

An invigorating examination of the potential for meaningful change in education, from one of the nation's most astute observers of schooling and school improvement. In The Great School Rethink, education policy sentinel Frederick M. Hess offers a pithy and perceptive appraisal of American schooling and finds, in the uncertain period following pandemic disruption, an ideal moment to reimagine US education.