Employment Opportunities—Join the growing Public Impact team!
We are hiring entry- and mid-level consultants, entry-level research analysts, a media and communications assistant, and a writer. Smart, driven candidates committed to excellence please apply! Deadline October 22, 2018.
Closing Achievement Gaps
Closing Achievement Gaps—In Diverse and Low-Poverty Schools
Report commissioned by Oak Foundation proposes a fresh, complete package of approaches to closing achievement gaps in diverse schools.
Closing Achievement Gaps in Diverse Schools
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U.S. education leaders have spent decades highlighting and attempting to close achievement gaps, focused especially on the gaps between African-American and Latino students compared to their white and Asian peers, as well as the gaps between low-income students and others.
But that focus can overlook the struggles in much wealthier areas: 55 percent of African-American students and 54 percent of Latino students attend schools with low or moderate poverty rates. In these more economically and racially diverse schools, students of color and low-income students fare better than in high-poverty schools—but they still face large achievement gaps.
In this report by Public Impact, commissioned by Oak Foundation, we propose a fresh, complete package of approaches to closing achievement gaps in diverse schools. [Read more…]
Design for Impact New
Design for Impact—Teacher Residencies that Last
Report provides actionable guidance for designing financially sustainable teacher residency programs.
Design for Impact: Designing a Residency Program for Long-Term Financial Sustainability
Even the best teacher residency programs must find a way to fund their work. In Design for Impact, Public Impact and the National Center for Teacher Residencies define financial sustainability and show how to implement four strategies to help teacher residencies get in and stay in the black.
Innovative Staffing to Personalize Learning
Innovative Staffing to Personalize Learning—New Teaching Roles + Blended Learning
New report analyzes eight schools and school networks that are not only personalizing learning, but also getting learning results with disadvantaged students.
Opportunity Culture
What if all teachers could achieve excellent student learning results—with the right leadership and support? Opportunity Culture makes this possible. Multi-classroom leaders who produced high-growth student learning as teachers help whole teams of teachers achieve student learning growth matching or approaching that of excellent teachers. Find out more about this national initiative of Public Impact on our sister website, OpportunityCulture.org.
