Urban Learning Systems Scan

A  large market is emerging for innovations that transform the performance of urban learning systems--public schools, including charter schools, and districts serving low-income, minority, and immigrant students.

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Margaret Trimer-Hartley and Peter Plastrik provide a scan of the market and potential innovations, including:

• Development of a national, networked capacity for research-and-development to generate innovations in urban learning systems that, among other things, increase urban learners. academic achievement and college completion.

• Prototyping of models of locally based .school incubators. that grow the supply of innovative schools in a community by attracting and supporting school entrepreneurs and importing proven innovations.

• Development of a shared operating system for successful urban learning systems based on common design principles and operating practices such as use of student assessment data; development of school leaders and teachers for urban learning systems; placement of students into colleges; and engagement of parents in using data-based tools for assessing student and school performance.