Take Action
Focus greater attention on key levers to improve student outcomes, including through:
-
Sustained and Committed Leadership: Ensuring Strategic Investments Create Long-term Change
-
Quality Early Childhood: Creating Alignment Between the Early Childhood and K-12 Sectors
- Strategic Capacity-Building and Systemic Support: Improving Effective Instruction by Educators
- High Academic Standards and Honest Data: Setting High Expectations
- High-Quality, Content-Rich and Aligned Curriculum and Instructional Resources: Creating a Pathway for Students to Meet Rigorous Expectations
- Additional Instructional Time: Strategic and Guided Time to Ensure Results for Students
- Additional Supports for Overcoming Literacy Barriers: Creating Positive Learning Opportunities for Students with Dyslexia
- Strong School and District Accountability Systems: Holding Leaders Responsible for Results
Read more about these recommendations in the full Top Ten for Education: Not By Chance report.