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After a decade of work with states, districts, city governments and community organizations around the country to expand learning and enrichment opportunities both in and out of school, The Wallace Foundation has accumulated a body of knowledge and field-based lessons that are highly relevant for developing comprehensive approaches to achieving the Race to the Top reform objectives and other federal strategies to improve public education. As recently described in the Federal Register, those submitting plans and grant applications to address those objectives will be asked to demonstrate a high degree of policy and strategy coordination at all levels of public education. This brief report highlights a number of research findings and action steps drawn from policies and practices that have been shown to be critical to the success of educational reforms at the local, district and state levels. The report focuses on the following topics (click on the links to see HTML versions for these sections):
Published: September 2009, 11 pages
Publishing Organization: The Wallace Foundation
Document Type: Report
Document Format: PDF
Leadership for Learning: Making the Connections Among State, District and School Policies and Practices
A Place to Grow and Learn: A Citywide Approach to Building and Sustaining Out-of-School Time Learning Opportunities
Revitalizing Arts Education through Community-Wide Coordination
Assessing the Effectiveness of School Leaders: New Directions and New Processes
Preparing School Leaders for a Changing World: Lessons from Exemplary Leadership Development Programs
Increasing Arts Demand through Better Arts Learning