#888: Building bridges in education reform, with Frances Messano

On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Frances Messano, the CEO of NewSchools Venture fund, joins Mike to discuss the Building Bridges Initiative and its call to action, A Generation at Risk. Then, on the Research Minute, Amber discusses new research that finds that attending KIPP middle and high schools dramatically increases students’ rate of college completion.

Recommended content:

• A Generation at Risk: A Call to Action —The Building Bridges Initiative
• “How to meet students’ social-emotional and academic needs when schools reopen” —Frances Messano
• “A bridge back to bipartisan education reform” —Michael Petrilli
• “An expanded definition of student success should guide the pandemic-era learning recovery” —Jason Atwood
• Alicia Demers, Ira Nichols-Barrer, Elisa Steele, Maria Bartlett, and Philip Gleason, “Long-term impacts of KIPP middle and high schools on college enrollment, persistence, and attainment,” Mathematica (September 2023).

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