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"Charter Starter" to the Rescue 
- Where will new high-performing charter schools come from?
- Created ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
education innovation- How Can You Tell If A School Is Succeeding Or Failing?
- You'd think the difference would be obvious, but not so...
- Created ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- education innovation
- What's Up With the Performance of Big Charter School Operators?
- With only a few exceptions, they don't reveal much about how their schools are doing.
- Created ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- education innovation
- “Failing Schools” Are a Big Problem Without A Known Solution, So…
- Build a portfolio of innovations—a “laboratory” to figure out what will work at large scale.
- Created 2 weeks ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- education innovation
- "Community Transformation" Means... Uh, Uh... What?
- The words are easy to say, harder to define. Here's one community's attempt.
- Created 4 weeks ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- community innovation, social innovation
- When Schools Won't Change, What Can You Do?
- The federal government has enough money to try to "buy" new behaviors from entrenched school districts, but what about the rest of us?
- Created 5 weeks ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- education innovation
- The Assets Movement Gathers
- Building financial assets of the poor is one of the most important social innovations in the last decades.
- Created 9 weeks ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- social innovation
- Wilma Mankiller and the "Rules" of Community
- The white, European mental model of community is only one way to think about place.
- Created 4 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- community innovation
- Innovation Quickies
- What do these facts mean for social innovation?
- Created 4 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- social innovation
- Tupper Thomas: Innovation in the Park
- It took bold social innovation to save Brooklyn's Prospect Park, one of the world's most important urban parks
- Created 4 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- social innovation
- The Problem of Context in Social Innovation
- How different is "here" from "there"?
- Created 4 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- community innovation, social innovation
- Lessons from the Detroit School Revolution
- To save urban schools, stop trying to save the central school district from itself.
- Created 4 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- education innovation
- Unleashing Social Innovation: The Two Big Approaches
- Stephen Goldsmith's new book, "The Power of Social Innovation," examines government's potential to enable social innovators.
- Created 5 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- business innovation, investing in innovation, social innovation
- Some Domestic Manufacturing is Alive and Well
- Small Firm Shows How a Relentless Pursuit of Innovation and Continuous Improvement Can Lead to Success, Even in Tough Times
- Created 5 months ago by John Cleveland in Social Innovation Blog
- social innovation
- “Community Transformation” – What Are We Talking About?
- Cities and towns are changing all the time, but how do they intentionally become better places?
- Created 5 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- education innovation, place-based innovation, social innovation
- "Early College" Schools Can Be a Game Changer, But...
- Obstacles are still in the way of this education innovation.
- Created 6 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- education innovation
- Building a Supply Line for More Good Urban Schools: Could Detroit Be Showing the Way?
- Big city school districts and charter schools aren't getting the job done well enough or fast enough. Here's an alternative.
- Created 6 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- education innovation
- The Long View of Education Innovation
- About two decades into the gritty work of reform, where are we heading?
- Created 6 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- education innovation
- Partners
- The network behind Network Impact
- Innovation Network for Communities
- Accountability in Education: What's So Hard About Making Schools Perform Well?
- Anger, frustration, and opposition are the norms when it comes to judging schools. Yet another opportunity for innovation?
- Created 6 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- education innovation
- Where Do You Go to See the Future?
- Denmark is today's destination for learning--but are the innovations transferable to your place?
- Created 7 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- innovation ensembles, innovation replication
- nuPOLIS Digest January 2010
- Updates on social innovations we're working on.
- Created 7 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- innovation information, social innovation
- Living the Innovation Dream: A New Year Shout Out for Our Marvelous Partners
- The portfolio of innovations that nuPOLIS/Innovation Network for Communities works on is driven by skilled, committed partners around the country.
- Created 7 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- community innovation, Innovation Network for Communities, social innovation
- nuPOLIS 2009: Most Popular Items
- From our first year on the Web, the blogs and developments that most resonated with our growing audience.
- Created 8 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- community innovation, Innovation Network for Communities, social innovation
- Toward a Social Innovation Commons
- An "information maze" stymies social innovators. Is it a problem with a solution?
- Created 8 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- innovation information, innovation knowledge, social innovation
- Toward A Social Innovation Commons
- Solving the "comparative information" problem that holds back social innovators.
- innovation knowledge, social innovation
- Best Inventions of 2009: What’s In It for Communities?
- TIME’s “Best Inventions" list runs from rockets and light bulbs to tank-bred tuna. What will affect places?
- Created 8 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- social innovation
- Evolution of an Innovation: Charter Schools
- What started as a way to stimulate innovation in education systems is becoming a new model for replacing those systems.
- Created 9 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- education innovation
- December 2009 Update: Innovations We're Working On
- Updates from the nuPOLIS portfolio of social innovation projects
- Created 9 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- Innovation Network for Communities, innovation replication, social innovation
- Innovation Nexus: Communities Explore a New Intersection of Ideas
- What do education reform, early childhood development, cultural competence, and community development have in common?
- Created 9 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- social innovation
- Social Innovation Inquiry: Where Does Insight Come From?
- Three social entrepreneurs radically changed their way of thinking and invented something new.
- Created 9 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- social innovation
- The Art of Replicating Social Innovation: Curb Your Enthusiasm
- When social innovators flock around an innovation like the Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ), calls for replication are in the air.
- Created 9 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- social innovation
- November 2009 Update: Innovations We're Working On
- Updates from the nuPOLIS portfolio of social innovation projects
- Created 10 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- innovation communities, Innovation Network for Communities, social innovation
- So You Want To Be In The Social Innovation Business...
- We started the Innovation Network for Communities in early 2007. Here's what we've learned along the way and where we intend to go.
- Created 10 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- community innovation, Innovation Network for Communities, social innovation
- Letting Nature Do the Work
- How communities are using "green services" to reduce costs and become more sustainable
- Created 10 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- innovation communities
- INC 2.0
- After nearly three years of work at the frontier of community innovation, we shared with our main funder the accomplishments and lessons learned of Innovation Network for Communities.
- Created 10 months ago by Pete Plastrik in nuPOLIS Document Library
- community innovation, Innovation Network for Communities, social innovation
- INC 2.0
- A review of what we at the Innovation Network for Communities has accomplished and learned in its first three years--and what we want to do next.
- Created 10 months ago by Pete Plastrik in nuPOLIS Document Library
- community innovation, Innovation Network for Communities, social innovation
- Stop the Babysitter!! Spotting an Innovation Opportunity
- Can getting rid of the “helping professions" allow us to solve social problems?
- Created 10 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- social innovation
- Innovaton Communities, The Book: Chapter 4
- Read highlights and download Chapter 4: "COMMUNITY INNOVATION: How Social Innovators are Transforming America's Communities"
- Created 10 months ago by Greg Berry in nuPOLIS Document Library
- innovation, social innovation, social innovation book
- Community Innovation Book: Chapter 3 (Location Efficiency)
- Release of Community Innovation, Chapter 3: Location Efficiency: Tapping The Power of Proximity
- Created 10 months ago by Greg Berry in nuPOLIS Document Library
- innovation, social innovation, social innovation book
- New National Urban Sustainability Network Launches
- Urban Sustainability Directors hold their first annual meeting in Chicago.
- Created 10 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- social innovation
- October 2009 Update: Innovations We're Working On
- Updates from the nuPOLIS portfolio of social innovation projects
- Created 11 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- community innovation, social innovation, White House social innovation
- Hunting for Social Innovation #4: Data Mining TIME's 25 "Responsibility Pioneers"
- Lists of "top" social innovations are fun to read, but what would be really useful is a searchable data base with rigorous information about innovations.
- Created 11 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- innovation prizes, social innovation
- Should Relocation, Not Reform, Be the Education Change Strategy of Choice?
- Where you live can determine the quality of education your kids will get--so let's use Race to the Top funds to relocate everyone!
- Created 11 months ago by Pete Plastrik in Social Innovation Blog
- education innovation
- From the Front Lines of Community Innovation: "What Should We Do Next?"
- So many questions...