Coming Together to Give Schools a Boost - NYTimes.com - 1 views
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Above all, they say, partners must come together and agree not just on common goals, but shared ways to measure success towards those goals. They must communicate on a regular basis. And there must be a “backbone” organization that is focused full-time on managing the partnership.
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war rooms” in each school. Teachers have meetings every two weeks, where they closely monitor students’ progress
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“The key to making a partnership work is setting a common vision and finding a common language. You can’t let people get focused on ideological or political issues,” says Edmondson. “You need a common language to bring people together and that language is the data.”