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Education Resource Strategies, January 13, 2011
With escalating education costs in a time of declining school budgets, ERS articulates for state leaders opportunities to shift scarce funds toward the most critical areas. ERS Executive Director Karen Hawley Miles gave this presentation in Chicago at the conference Moving Forward with a Transformative Education Agenda hosted by the…
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by Karen Hawley Miles & Karen Baroody
Education Week, January 19, 2011
See our EdWeek commentary on the importance of multiple measures when evaluating teaching.
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by Karen Baroody
Center for American Progress, January 2011
Released with the Center for American Progress, this paper will help district leaders systematically implement a district-level turnaround strategy.
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At times, students with similar backgrounds can achieve markedly different results. One student may graduate and go on to college. Another may drop out. Learn how seemingly insignificant differences in instruction and district investment can make a huge difference in a student’s ultimate performance.
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The Annenberg Institute for School Reform’s Voices in Urban Education publication, produced in partnership with ERS, grew from the ERS-convened Fair Student Funding Summit in March 2010. The summit brought together more than sixty urban education leaders from fourteen school districts that use student-based budgeting. The issues explores student based…
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Read the nine detailed case studies that helped inform the report: Strategic Designs: Lessons from Leading Edge Small Urban High Schools.
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ERS, July 2010
Take an online self-assessment to learn how your district’s resource use measures up to best practice.
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On March 25-26, 2010, urban education leaders gathered in Baltimore, MD for the Fair Student Funding Summit, a conference that brought together districts that use weighted student funding (WSF) as an approach for allocating dollars to schools. Convened by Education Resource Strategies (ERS) and hosted by Baltimore City Public Schools,…
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by Regis Anne Shields and Karen Hawley Miles
ERS, 2008
This report illustrates how nine high performing, small urban high schools across the U.S. are thinking about and organizing their resources strategically to best meet their students’ most pressing needs.
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In March, 2010, ERS brought together a group of urban education leaders for a two-day summit to explore innovative approaches for allocating student funds based on student need. These summaries came from posters used for an opening gallery walk to the summit. You will find information about each districts size,…
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