White paper, Improvement Research Carried Out Through Networked Communities: Accelerating Learning about Practices that Support More Productive Student Mindsets, explores improvement science as a way to address problems facing educators.
Why do some college students persist while others don’t? David Levin asked this question about the alumni of the Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP)—a network of urban charter schools. Instead of focusing on students’ test scores or college professors’ instructional styles, he found something different. Students who were successful “were…