coreeducation, Author at Core Education, LLC

Next Generation Accountability: Creating Performance Frameworks for Student Success

A new issue brief from Aurora Institute explores how policymakers can approach rethinking, redesigning, and rearchitecting next generation accountability systems. Next generation accountability systems can empower states, districts, communities, and schools with timely, relevant information and provide the capacity to analyze and continuously improve instruction and learning. Continuously improving education Read more

By coreeducation, 7 monthsApril 15, 2026 ago

Teacher Preparation

Why Teacher Residencies Need to Be the Standard

As states across the country grapple with growing teacher shortages and seek to build a teacher workforce that is well equipped to meet the diverse learning needs of our nation’s students, more and more school systems are turning to teacher residencies — yearlong clinical experiences that pair teacher candidates with Read more

By coreeducation, 8 monthsMarch 6, 2026 ago

School Reform & Leadership

Future Ready Learner Design Process

All4Ed’s Future Ready Schools® and the Readiness Institute at Penn State have partnered to create and launch the new Future Ready Learner Design Process. This free tool, available now, utilizes a human-centered design (HCD) model, which is a people-oriented approach to solving relevant problems and developing action-oriented solutions. The Future Read more

By coreeducation, 8 monthsFebruary 23, 2026 ago

Diversity & Equity

Recruitment and Retention: Pilot Solutions Designed by Teachers of Color

A large body of research, including a detailed report commissioned by Digital Promise in 2020, points to the importance of diversifying the teacher workforce across the U.S. Too often, though, state- or district-level teacher workforce diversity initiatives are applied in broad strokes and do not center the experiences of teachers Read more

By coreeducation, 4 yearsApril 20, 2023 ago

Diversity & Equity

States can improve equity and outcomes in gifted education, but too many aren’t trying

Writing for Fordham, Brandon Wright recently reviewed evidence that many states are not making effort to improve the equitable implementation of gifted education. Excerpts of the piece appear below: Last month, the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) released the 2020–21 edition of its “State of the States in Gifted Read more

By coreeducation, 4 yearsApril 18, 2023 ago

Teacher Effectiveness & Retention

Ways to Reform Teacher Compensation, beyond a $60,000 Minimum Salary

Writing for Brown Center Chalkboard, Michael Hansen recently reviewed ways to reform teacher compensation without imposing a minimum annual salary across the board. Excerpts of the piece appear below: Teacher compensation reform has reemerged as an urgent policy topic, with bills introduced in both chambers of Congress to incentivize states Read more

By coreeducation, 4 yearsApril 13, 2023 ago

Professional Learning

Curriculum Based Professional Learning: The State of the Field

In recent years, promising open-source, high-quality instructional materials (HQIM) have presented exciting opportunities to enhance students’ engagement and agency in their learning, expand access to grade-level content, and narrow the boundaries between home and school —all without increasing the cost that schools and districts incur for curricula. However, research suggests Read more

By coreeducation, 4 yearsApril 4, 2023 ago

School Reform & Leadership

K–12 value networks: The hidden forces that help or hinder learner-centered education

The conventional model of schooling is outdated and overdue for replacement. As learners make their way through high school, survey results show that close to 66% end up disengaged. Those who successfully navigate the system gain a narrow set of academic skills that may or may not align with their Read more

By coreeducation, 4 yearsMarch 30, 2023 ago

Politics & Policy Teacher Effectiveness & Retention

Educator Turnover Has Markedly Increased, but Districts Have Taken Actions to Boost Teacher Ranks

At least until spring 2022, the dismal teaching conditions induced by the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic had not led to notably higher educator turnover. However, surveys of educators continue to show that many teachers and principals plan to push up their anticipated retirement date because of the pandemic, and morale Read more

By coreeducation, 4 yearsMarch 28, 2023 ago

Politics & Policy

The State of American Higher Education Outcomes in 2023

Is the US higher education system providing a baseline level of quality for college students? To answer that question, Third Way has been regularly examining institutional outcomes in three key areas: completion, post-enrollment earnings, and student loan repayment. These metrics are informative in their own right, and they are also Read more

By coreeducation, 4 yearsMarch 21, 2023 ago

School Reform & Leadership Teacher Effectiveness & Retention

Creativity From Necessity: A Practical Toolkit for Leaders to Address Teacher Shortages

Many schools have encountered new struggles recruiting and retaining enough teachers over the last few years — and many face chronic staffing challenges that long predate the pandemic. To help address these challenges, Bellwether scanned the country for ideas and resources to create Creativity From Necessity: A Practical Toolkit for Read more

By coreeducation, 4 yearsMarch 16, 2023 ago

Learning Pathways Politics & Policy

The Future of Education

Around the world, accelerating technological innovation and pressing global issues such as climate change are affecting our lives, including what we learn and how we learn. Google for Education launched an effort to speak with educational experts to understand evolving trends in the future of education. Google for Education collaborated Read more

By coreeducation, 4 yearsMarch 14, 2023 ago

Politics & Policy

An Assembly of Talent: Empowering and Expanding Human Capital in Education

The education system in the United States must evolve from a one-size-fits-all approach to one in which students’ individualized needs are served by an ecosystem of more flexible learning opportunities. This approach, Assembly, is growing and serving more families than ever. Many families already engage in different flavors of Assembly Read more

By coreeducation, 4 yearsMarch 2, 2023 ago

School Reform & Leadership

Trends Shaping Education

Did you ever wonder what the impact of climate change will be on our educational institutions in the next decade? What does it mean for schools that our societies are becoming more individualistic and diverse? Trends Shaping Education is a triennial report examining major economic, political, social and technological trends Read more

By coreeducation, 4 yearsMarch 1, 2023 ago

School Reform & Leadership

Developing Effective Principals: What Kind of Learning Matters?

The Learning Policy Institute (LPI) report Developing Effective Principals: What Kind of Learning Matters? adds to an extensive body of research indicating that high-quality principal preparation and professional development programs lead to positive school, principal, teacher, and student outcomes. Based on a review of peer-reviewed research and survey data, the Read more

By coreeducation, 4 yearsFebruary 28, 2023 ago

Kim Fleming has experience working at the school, district, state, and university levels. She earned her PhD in Teacher Education and Professional Development from the University of Maryland and her Masters in Teacher Leadership from Johns Hopkins University. She has worked with 24 school districts and 28 institutions of higher education as professional development schools facilitator and alternative teacher preparation program specialist. In addition, she has worked with four state education agencies, several school districts, and many nonprofit and for profit organizations as a consultant. Fleming is an accomplished grant writer and presenter. She has published numerous publications and book chapters.