As I explore with @vkoganpolisci and Michael Hartney in the upcoming issue of @EducationNext, it is not clear this is good policy or good politics.
www.educationnext.org/voters-rejec...

Learn more about this research here:
publicaffairs.ucdenver.edu/cepa

School systems facing the same challenges as Denver- declining enrollment, financial trouble, & low performance-can learn from its reforms and take needed courage from evidence of success. Transformative change is not easy, but dramatic improvement is possible. www.the74million.org/article/how-...

Our study finds that Black and Latino students in Denver received the equivalent of at least 18 months of additional schooling in literacy and math compared to their matched peers in surrounding districts. English Learners also gained 18 months in math. publicaffairs.ucdenver.edu/cepa

Research from CU Denver finds that the average Denver student who experienced the reforms received the equivalent of at least six months & as much as 27 months (3 years) of additional schooling compared to their matched peers in surrounding districts. Each year of reform produced larger benefits.

When Denver launched its reforms in 2007, it was in the bottom 5th percentile of all districts in the state. Its four-year graduation rate was 39%. After a decade of reform, the district rose to above the 60th percentile and raised its graduation rate above 70%.

Denver used the portfolio district strategy to fundamentally alter the role and structure of its local school system, shifting away from a rigid, centralized institutional approach toward a more flexible and responsive model based on adaptation, differentiation and continuous improvement. #edpolicy

A couple more examples of thousands....

I'm especially interested to thread the needle on "misleading beliefs that classrooms operate in ways designed to fit the industrial era"

Schooling has changed dramatically but evidence is overwhelming that school districts were designed and still operate today based on industrial era practices.