The Achievement Network (ANet)
The Achievement Network’s mission is to work alongside school leadership teams to strengthen their school-wide practice and culture of using learning standards and achievement data to get breakthrough results for students in underserved communities. ANet partners with teachers and school leaders to boost student learning with great teaching that is grounded in standards, informed by data, and built on successful practices of educators across the country. ANet also works closely with school district and charter management organization leaders to turn best practices into systemic improvements in teaching and learning. ANet works with over 500 schools and 170,000 students in ten geographic networks. Achievement Network Website Back to All SGP...
The Boston Compact
The Boston Compact brings district, charter and Catholic school educators together in order to provide equitable access to high-performing schools and excellent instruction to all students. The Compact seeks to address three barriers to student achievement: opportunity and achievement gaps, shortage of school quality, and lack of family-friendly, equitable systems. A particular focus of the compact over the next three years is to develop family-friendly, equitable systems to access high quality schools close-to-home, such as a unified enrollment system, across the charter and district sectors. The Boston Compact Website Back to All SGP...
The Education Innovation Laboratory (EdLabs)
EDLab’s mission is to provide reliable scientific evidence to support impactful decisions in education in the United States, particularly the education of minority students and students living in poverty. In 2008, Dr. Roland Fryer, a celebrated young economist at Harvard, founded The Education Innovation Laboratory at Harvard (EdLabs). What sets EdLabs apart is the determination to drill down and discover what really works and then determine whether and how these answers can be applied in large urban district settings where most low-income children are educated. As an innovation lab, EdLabs performs rigorous research to understand the underlying causes of the achievement gap (in order to inform potential solutions), evaluates others’ work in order to identify high impact interventions, and designs and implements experiments to test new approaches. Putting academic research into practice to create a learning feedback loop makes Dr. Fryer’s work very different from a traditional approach to educational evaluation. The Education Innovation Laboratory Website Website Back to All SGP...