April 2013

Are we doing the right things to address, or rather, prevent the issues of disparities in education?

April 30, 2026

I just read a fascinating opinion piece in the New York Times entitled “No Rich Child Left Behind.” I wasn’t surprised by what I was reading. There is a significant gap in education success between high-income families and those of lower socio-economic status. This we know and have known for years. What did surprise me [...]

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Quality Benchmarks for Cradle to Career Collective Impact

April 23, 2026

When the Collective Impact article appeared in the Stanford Social Innovation Review back in early 2011, our phones began ringing off the hook with communities wanting to learn more about the work of building cradle to career civic infrastructure. Thanks to support from Living Cities we had already worked to capture lessons and work with other [...]

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One Lesson from Atlanta

April 9, 2026

There is so much we can learn from the recent indictments of so many administrators in the Atlanta public schools around scrubbing data. I would like to focus on just one: as long as we use data for punitive rather than constructive purposes we can expect to keep seeing these types of situations no matter [...]

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