Education & Youth

A Market for Success: How a Robust Service Provider Market Can Help Community Colleges Improve Student Completion

Jeff Kutash, Kate Tallant, Matt Wilka, Kevin Connell

This report draws on the perspectives of community college leaders to explore how external service providers can best help colleges improve student completion.

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The Promise of Citywide Charter Strategies

Jeff Kutash, John Kania, Robert Albright, Julie Obbard

This report examines the potential for citywide charter strategies as a key leverage point for increasing charter school quality.

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Collective Impact

Mark Kramer, John Kania

Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, yet the social sector remains focused on the isolated intervention of individual organizations.

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Dollars for Degrees: Financial Aid and its Impact on Post-Secondary Degree Completion in Texas

Jeffrey Cohen, Lindsay Fox, Jeff Kutash, Mukta Pandit

This report examines how financial aid is structured and packaged and the specific effects of rising college costs, increasing debt, and the impact of financial aid on degree completion.

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Dollars for Degrees: Structuring Post-Secondary Scholarships to Increase Student Success

Jeffrey Cohen, Lindsay Fox, Jeff Kutash, Mukta Pandit

This report explores how funders can structure their scholarship awards and provide access to key non-financial supports to improve post-secondary persistence and completion.

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School Turnaround Field Guide

Jeff Kutash, Eva Nico, Emily Gorin, Samira Rahmatullah, Kate Tallant

This report offers a field assessment of actors, issues, key gaps and early lessons learned in turning around failing schools.

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School Turnaround: A Brief Overview of the Landscape and Key Issues

Jeff Kutash, Eva Nico, Emily Gorin, Kate Tallant, Samira Rahmatullah

This report, prepared for attendees of FSG’s national school turnaround conference in January 2010, highlights effective practices, policies, and conditions for success, and needed capacities for tackling turnaround on a national scale.

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Communicating Education Metrics

Jason Lee, Hallie Preskill, Rebecca Graves

New research highlights eight innovative tools that allow users to communicate social metrics effectively to a wide range of users.

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Building a Movement: Lessons Learned from the California Charter Schools Association

Lindsay Fox, Jeff Kutash, Ellen Martin

This case study focuses on the history and growth of the California Charter Schools Association (CCSA), one of the leading charter support organizations in the country and a veteran institution which is often looked upon as a model for other Charter Support Organizations.

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California Charter Schools Association: Charter Launch

Lindsay Fox, Jeff Kutash, Ellen Martin

This case study examines the development of the California Charter Schools Association's "Charter Launch" program and provides an instructive model for other charter support organizations.

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Best in Class: How Top Corporations Can Help Transform Public Education

Greg Hills, Jason Hirschhorn, John Kania, Allison Lee

This report provides a critical assessment of opportunities for corporations to transform the U.S. public education system through corporate philanthropy.

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Aspiring to a Plan - And Acheiving It

Owen Stearns

This article features an interview with Wendy Ault, the Executive Director of the MELMAC Foundation, and in which she talks about the problem they faced and the process FSG and MELMAC went through together to create a strategic plan.

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