Commentary
Walton's newest recruit: Marc Sternberg
Marc Sternberg—a senior deputy chancellor in the New York City school system since 2010, a stalwart s
Commentary
The Redesign of Urban School Systems: Case Studies in District Governance
This collection of case studies from the Center for Reform of School Systems’s Donald McAdams and the Broad Foundation’s Dan Katzir, intended for use in school-board-training institutes, explores the strategies used by twelve governance teams to implement major, district-wide reforms in nine of the nation’s largest school districts (four of which won the Broad Prize for Urban
Commentary
The Educational Value of Field Trips
This study reports on the first large-scale, randomized-control trial measuring the educational value of field trips. In 2011, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art opened in Arkansas and, because of the high demand for tours, the authors were able to randomly select student groups to go. They matched participating groups with control groups based on similar grade level and demographics.