#888: Building bridges in education reform, with Frances Messano
Sep 20, 2023•27 min•Ep. 888
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Episode description
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Frances Messano, the CEO of NewSchools Venture fund, joins Mike to discuss the Building Bridges Initiative and its call to action, A Generation at Risk. Then, on the Research Minute, Amber discusses new research that finds that attending KIPP middle and high schools dramatically increases students’ rate of college completion.
Recommended content:
- A Generation at Risk: A Call to Action —The Building Bridges Initiative
- “How to meet students’ social-emotional and academic needs when schools reopen” —Frances Messano
- “A bridge back to bipartisan education reform” —Michael Petrilli
- “An expanded definition of student success should guide the pandemic-era learning recovery” —Jason Atwood
- Alicia Demers, Ira Nichols-Barrer, Elisa Steele, Maria Bartlett, and Philip Gleason, “Long-term impacts of KIPP middle and high schools on college enrollment, persistence, and attainment,” Mathematica (September 2023).
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