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This paper examines one essential tactic for making school turnaround more effective: community engagement. To explore community engagement in action, the Reform Support Network (RSN) conducted reviews between April and August of 2013 of 11 States and districts, urban and rural, engaged in the communities surrounding low-performing schools. The enquiry yielded five primary lessons or takeaways about successful community engagement: make engagement a priority and establish an infrastructure, communicate proactively in the community, listen to the community and respond to its feedback, offer meaningful opportunities to participate, and turn community supporters into leaders and advocates.

"Welcome to the Department of Education's school law decisions page. Here you will be able to access recent legal decisions of the Commissioner of Education, the State Board of Education, the School Ethics Commission and the State Board of Examiners, Also included are the cases decided by the panel of permanent arbitrators responsible for deciding streamline tenure charges in charter schools. The decisions are in Adobe PDF (version 3.0) format. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader version 3.0 or higher to view them. Be sure to read the instructions that come with the reader carefully for information on viewing and printing documents"

The National Schools Foundation Association is the recognized leader of the PreK-12 education foundation movement in the United States, providing training and support for their development and quest to increase student achievement through philanthropic investment and involvement. Our Mission The mission of the National School Foundation Association is to provide support, training, and resources to education foundations and their leaders to maximize their success.

The National Schools Foundation Association is the recognized leader of the PreK-12 education foundation movement in the United States, providing training and support for their development and quest to increase student achievement through philanthropic investment and involvement. Our Mission The mission of the National School Foundation Association is to provide support, training, and resources to education foundations and their leaders to maximize their success.

The Montclair Fund for Educational Excellence (MFEE) is a non-profit local education fund founded in 1991 to generate private funding and community support for Montclair Public Schools and to enhance the educational experience of all of Montclair's public school students

local educaiton fund for Montclair PublicSchools

local educaiton fund for Montclair PublicSchools

Conceptual and Methodological Problems in Research on College Undermatch "Access to the nation's most selective colleges remains starkly unequal, with students in the lowest income quartile constituting less than 4% of enrollment," say Michael Bastedo and Allyson Flaster (University of Michigan/Ann Arbor) in this article in Educational Researcher. "Students in the top SES quartile comprise 69% of enrollment at institutions that admit fewer than a third of their applicants…" One increasingly popular explanation for this enrollment gap is undermatching - academically able low-income students not applying to selective colleges for which they are qualified, settling instead for lower-tier institutions. Bastedo and Flaster are skeptical about this theory for three reasons First, they don't believe there is good evidence about the life benefits of attending different tiers of college, and most measures of college "quality" are quite unscientific. Life advantages might accrue at the extremes - going to a highly selective college versus a low-quality community college - but the evidence about the whole middle range is "quite muddy," say Bastedo and Flaster. Among the factors that need to be looked at more carefully are a college's graduation rate, students' debt burden, placement in graduate or professional schools, and post-graduate earnings. Second, the authors question whether it's possible for researchers to predict which low-income students will get into selective colleges to which they haven't yet applied. Competition for seats in these colleges has become much more intense in recent years, and extra-curricular activities, alumni parents, athletic prowess, and other intangibles play an increasingly important part. In many of these areas, higher-SES students have great advantages. Third, even if we look only at SAT scores and GPAs, high-achieving disadvantaged students are still not as competitive as the undermatching advocate

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5 Essential Tips To Help Integrate iPads Into Your School. As we integrate the iPad into schools it is worth reflecting how the initial setup and training can have a real impact on the success or failure of a 1:1 programme.

"Thoughts on Self-Directed Learning in Medical Schools: Making Students More Responsible"

20 collaborative Google Apps activities for schools

This is a great resource. Thanks. I like the "other apps" section

Google Apps is beginning to revolutionize education. With its highly collaborative, online/offline format - and its attractive price tag (free!) - many schools, businesses and other organizations are ditching their expensive, clunky software for this powerful suite of tools

ASCD and CDC Announce Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child Model

A trauma-informed, school-wide approach to supporting healthy learning environments for students and teachers

Rethinking Independent Schools in the 21st Century

"Are science, social studies, the arts, and physical education really disappearing from elementary schools? Are critical thinking and deep reading of literature fading from the high school curriculum?"

FREE educational resources for middle school, high school, and college.

NJ schools use technology to revolutionize classroom lessons

And this concept should be translated to all US schools......

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The National Schools Foundation Association is the recognized leader of the PreK-12 education foundation movement in the United States, providing training and support for their development and quest to increase student achievement through philanthropic investment and involvement. Our Mission The mission of the National School Foundation Association is to provide support, training, and resources to education foundations and their leaders to maximize their success

New Leaders for New Schools Data-Driven Instruction

The more explicit tags you used on this bookmark are more helpful than your initial tags that were very general "Learning" I hope the tags will be helpful for you to search for bookmarks in the future for you and your faculty. Great start. Looking forward to learning from you and your shared resources next week.