Innovation & Technology Archives

Public Education Missed the Data Revolution. It’s Time to Catch Up

debraabritt2023-02-25T18:16:16+00:00

Data-free schooling means the system can’t learn as it goes and improve on what it does. It means students aren’t getting the full value from the nation’s investment in public schooling, write Marguerite Roza and Chad Aldeman. What can be done to chip away at this data desert?

Public Education Missed the Data Revolution. It’s Time to Catch Updebraabritt2023-02-25T18:16:16+00:00

Articles & Publications Opinion

From Paying Parents to Transport Their Kids to School to Calling Out the National Guard — Innovating in the Face of a Bus Driver Shortage

debraabritt2023-02-25T18:19:08+00:00

How districts react to unusual labor challenges like the bus driver shortage may tell us whether they can adapt to meet the moment and which, if any, will consider adopting innovations common in industries outside of education.

From Paying Parents to Transport Their Kids to School to Calling Out the National Guard — Innovating in the Face of a Bus Driver Shortagedebraabritt2023-02-25T18:19:08+00:00

Articles & Publications Opinion

The Big Bet on Adding Staff to Improve Schools Is Breaking the Bank

debraabritt2023-02-25T18:21:03+00:00

By going all-in on staffing, we’ve crowded out other potential investments that can positively impact student learning. In this paper, Marguerite Roza writes that competing strategies should be viewed through the lens of which can do the most for students with the limited dollars at hand.

The Big Bet on Adding Staff to Improve Schools Is Breaking the Bankdebraabritt2023-02-25T18:21:03+00:00

Articles & Publications

School-level spending: Financial transparency coming to every community in 2018

debraabritt2023-02-25T18:13:22+00:00

At the Education Writers Association National Seminar on June 2nd, hosted at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., Marguerite Roza presented on new school spending reports emerging under the federal ESSA financial transparency requirement.

School-level spending: Financial transparency coming to every community in 2018debraabritt2023-02-25T18:13:22+00:00

Presentations & Meetings

Building SEA Productivity

Laura Anderson2023-02-25T18:11:31+00:00

In this presentation state education chiefs heard about a basic framework for leading the productivity challenge that includes building a productivity data infrastructure, prioritizing flexibility, aligning funds with students, incentivizing innovation, and leading the change.

Building SEA ProductivityLaura Anderson2023-02-25T18:11:31+00:00

Presentations & Meetings

Innovating Toward Sustainability: How Computer Labs Can Enable New Staffing Structures, and New Savings

Laura Anderson2023-02-25T18:08:16+00:00

Using wage and staffing data from states, authors project the financial and staffing implications of one innovative school model (the Rocketship lab rotation) to highlight potential impacts on the schooling workforce and total per-student spending.

Innovating Toward Sustainability: How Computer Labs Can Enable New Staffing Structures, and New SavingsLaura Anderson2023-02-25T18:08:16+00:00

Articles & Publications

Curing Baumol’s Disease: In Search of Productivity Gains in Public Education

Laura Anderson2023-02-25T17:46:37+00:00

The authors discuss several areas in which labor-intensive businesses have improved productivity, but are absent in education. They conclude with a five-step agenda for finding the cure for Baumol’s disease in public education.

Curing Baumol’s Disease: In Search of Productivity Gains in Public EducationLaura Anderson2023-02-25T17:46:37+00:00

Articles & Publications

K-12 Financial Landscape

Student-Based Allocation

School-by-School Spending