Student perceptions and previous students’ performance are the best predictors of teacher effectiveness, according the initial findings from the Gates Foundation’s Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) Project.  The Gates Foundation launched MET in the fall of 2009 with the goal of answering such questions as: what are common...

Before their involvement in the Vision Network, leaders at Bayard Middle School knew they needed to make improvements.  They wanted to differentiate teaching methods to meet the individual needs of students, and also to streamline the process.  When they started to work with the Vision Network, they received the support and direction to...

Delaware’s School Improvement Grant (SIG)  policies have been cited as best practices from which other states can learn by Mass Insight’s School Turnaround Group in a report released last week: School Improvement Grants: Take Two.  In the report, Mass Insight offers lessons learned for states as they make grants to...

After disappointing news on the US performance on PISA, we have some good news—Mckinsey & Company recently released a report  “How the world’s most improved school systems keep getting better” on how 20 school systems—of diverse performance, geography, culture, governance, and resource-base— have...