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IEL Staff Contributes to New Book on Education Reform

A detail of the book cover featuring the columns of a government building and a red infographic arrow pointing down. Text: "Lessons from the Every Students Succeeds Act (ESSA)

IEL Staff Contributes to New Book on Education Reform

IEL’s Dr. Reuben Jacobson, deputy director of the Coalition for Community Schools, recently wrote a chapter in an important new book, Learning from the Federal Market-Based Reforms: Lessons for the Every Student Succeeds Act. The volume contains chapters by widely respected education researchers that address topics such as accountability, school choice, segregated schools, equity in school reform, and more. Jacobson’s chapter, “School-Community Partnerships: A Typology for Guiding Systemic Education Reform,” draws on the experiences of the Coalition for Community Schools and other partnership efforts to help policymakers and researchers understand the value and different types of partnership approaches. READ MORE…