Leaders and Laggards: Recommendations

• Leaders and Laggards: Recommendations

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  • Our analysis of the innovation gap in American education leads us to recommend the following reforms.
  • Empower schools and principals.
  • Develop student-based funding policies and other more flexible approaches to school funding
  • Reinvent education management.
  • Reinvention calls for nothing less than a seismic shift on the part of states, from micromanaging districts through bureaucratic and irrelevant funding schemes, program initiatives, and policies to creating a flexible, performance-focused management system that is loose on inputs and strict on school outcomes.
  • Rethink the school day and calendar.
  • Better Accountability
  • Reform teacher pay and reward teachers whose performance improves student achievement.
  • Develop statewide longitudinal data systems and provide better information to schools, teachers, and the public.
  • Provide teachers with focused professional development on key topics such as use of data and technology. High-tech tools are of little use unless teachers in the trenches can take advantage of them.
  • Support state efforts to create common academic standards linked to rigorous assessments.
  • Support state reform organizations.
  • Encourage entrepreneurial organizations such as Teach for America and Wireless Generation.
  • the status quo needs to be disrupted for purposeful innovation to thrive. Only then will our nation's students receive the kind of education that they deserve.

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