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Leaders and Laggards: Recommendations
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Our analysis of the innovation gap in American education leads us to recommend the following reforms.
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Empower schools and principals.
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Develop student-based funding policies and other more flexible approaches to school funding
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Reinvent education management.
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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.
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Rethink the school day and calendar.
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Better Accountability
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Reform teacher pay and reward teachers whose performance improves student achievement.
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Develop statewide longitudinal data systems and provide better information to schools, teachers, and the public.
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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.
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Support state efforts to create common academic standards linked to rigorous assessments.
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Support state reform organizations.
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Encourage entrepreneurial organizations such as Teach for America and Wireless Generation.
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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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