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ESSA’s Success Requires Stakeholder Engagement

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With the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) returning significant authority over K-12 education to the states, it’s more important than ever for stakeholders at all levels—from educators to superintendents, state-level administrators to parents and the public—to be engaged and feel ownership over ESSA implementation. In an Education Week commentary, IEL president and Coalition for Community […]

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Rising Together: Learning Across School, Family & Community

Connecting Families, Schools, & Communities /

This year’s Community Schools National Forum in Albuquerque, N.M., was the largest community schools convening yet. Co-hosted with the Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Community School Partnership, the Forum attracted over 1,700 participants from 44 states and 9 countries. With the theme of “Rising Together: Learning across Family, School, and Community,” learning remained a focus throughout the entire

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Breathe Joy & Justice into School & Community Leadership

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IEL and East Carolina University are hosting a Summer Leadership Learning Exchange July 17-21, 2016. Breathing Joy and Justice into School and Community Leadership is an interactive, four-day institute utilizing the latest research on achieving collective impact for equitable and excellent schools. School- and community-based teams—including school leaders, teachers, middle and high school students, counselors,

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Record Number Of Fellows Attend Washington Policy Seminar

Preparing Leaders /

In April, the Education Policy Fellowship Program (EPFP) hosted its 52nd Washington Policy Seminar (WPS). The four-day annual capstone event that convenes EPFP Fellows from across the country welcomed 300 Fellows from 17 sites—our highest WPS attendance ever. The theme, Presidential Politics and Education Policy, explored the evolution of the role of the president and

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From the Archives: Making School a Place Where Everyone Succeeds

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Over 60 years after Brown v. Board, the education system is still struggling with segregation, the opportunity and achievement gaps, school funding discrepancies, and improving outcomes for all young people. In 2007, Dr. Claude Steele, then at Stanford University, delivered the seventh annual Jacqueline P. Danzberger Memorial Lecture on stereotype threat and why understanding it

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Halperin Lecture, Award Focus on Youth as Centers of their Education

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Today, IEL and the American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) hosted the second annual Samuel Halperin Lecture and Youth Public Service Award. The lecture and youth award serve as an ongoing tribute to Sam Halperin, a former IEL president and AYPF founder who dedicated his career to advancing education, workforce, and youth policy. This year, the

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AERA annual meeting 2016 plenary session panel.

IEL Has Strong Presence at AERA’s Centennial Meeting

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This year marked a new level of engagement for IEL at the centennial meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). AERA’s theme was “Public Scholarship to Educate Diverse Democracies.” IEL hosted a pre-conference workshop about what it means to be community scholars and use activist scholarship and an AERA presidential site visit that gave

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