Every year, high-achieving students—especially students of color and those from low-income families—lose ground in school, in spite of their potential and talent. What if there was a simple way to disrupt this decline? We designed an experiment to test one possible strategy.
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Every year, high-achieving students—especially students of color and those from low-income families—lose ground in school, in spite of their potential and talent. What if there was a simple way to disrupt this decline? We designed an experiment to test one possible strategy.
For parents to be fully engaged in their children's schools, they need the facts—good and bad.
Our newest employer partner is a family-run company that's grown from two brothers to one of the largest mechanical contractors in the Gulf South.
Act 547 requires schools to make key pieces of information more accessible to parents. We put ourselves in a parent's shoes to find out how well the new law is working.
A child whose parents cannot afford food already has way more reminders about that on a daily basis than any kid needs.
Taking a few basic steps now can help schools meet the new law's requirements and ensure families are getting the information they need.
You probably didn’t notice, but Louisiana just made it a lot easier for families to be engaged with their children’s education.
Not every school that has been earning an A under Louisiana's current rating system is actually a top-performing school, and some very worthy schools are being overlooked.
Student growth isn’t everything. Just because a school has high growth doesn’t mean it’s always going to be a great school, or a great school for every family. It’s one piece of data. But I’m not sure how we could give good counsel to families about their school choices without it.