The Past and the Promise: Today’s Competency Education Movement Download the Full PDFBack to Publications Page September 23, 2014 CECILIA LE, REBECCA E. WOLFE AND ADRIA STEINBERG In competency-based schools, students advance based upon mastery of material, rather than time spent in a classroom in age-based cohorts. In a competency-based model, teachers provide customized…
Personal Opportunity Plans Download the Full PDFBack to Publications Page July 15, 2014 CAROL MILLER LIEBER The well-being of our next generation and the economic and social health of our nation are at risk when students are not equipped with the support necessary to succeed in college and beyond. Personal Opportunity Plans (POPs) –…
Policy Barriers to School Improvement: What’s Real and What’s Imagined? Download the Full PDFBack to Publications Page June 24, 2014 LAWRENCE J. MILLER AND JANE S. LEE States and districts have traditionally controlled the publications that go into schools and regulated the practices that governed them. Today though, school leaders who are empowered to…
Student-Centered Schools Study: Closing the Opportunity Gap Download the Full PDFBack to Publications Page June 12, 2014 STANFORD CENTER FOR OPPORTUNITY POLICY IN EDUCATION (SCOPE) New research from the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE) finds that creating student-centered learning environments is one of the most promising ways to address the opportunity…
Leadership in Action: What Are Personal Learning Plans? Download the Full PDFBack to Publications Page May 05, 2014 NEW ENGLAND SECONDARY SCHOOL CONSORTIUM This issue brief from the New England Secondary School Consortium’s Leadership in Action series outlines what personal learning plans look like, and how schools are using them to help students achieve…
The New Opportunity to Lead Download the Full PDFBack to Publications Page March 24, 2014 MASSACHUSETTS BUSINESS ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION (MBAE) AND BRIGHTLINES Massachusetts’ education system is high-performing when benchmarked against the rest of the country and even the world. However, the current system will not deliver the transformation needed to meet the demands…
Ready for College and Career? Download the Full PDFBack to Publications Page March 20, 2014 KARIN HESS, BRIAN GONG, AND REBECCA STEINITZ Ready for College and Career? Achieving the Common Core Standards and Beyond Through Deeper, Student-Centered Learning examines how to prepare students to succeed in postsecondary life. The report finds that a range of…
Leadership in Action: What is Proficiency-Based Grading? Download the Full PDFBack to Publications Page February 26, 2014 NEW ENGLAND SECONDARY SCHOOL CONSORTIUM This issue brief from the New England Secondary School Consortium outlines what separates proficiency-based grading from traditional grading. Proficiency-based grades separate academic achievement from behaviors.
A K-12 Federal Policy Framework for Competency Education: Building Capacity for Systems Change Download the Full PDFBack to Publications Page February 01, 2014 MARIA WORTHEN AND LILLIAN PACE Providing federal policymakers with a comprehensive vision for supporting state and local efforts to implement student-centered learning, this report describes barriers and opportunities within federal education…
Student-Centered Learning: Dozier-Libbey Medical High School Download the Full PDFBack to Publications Page January 29, 2014 DIANE FRIEDLAENDER In this report, the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE) explores student-centered learning practices at Dozier-Libbey Medical High School (DMHS) in California—a school serving predominately low-income students and students of color. Within just five…