So we’ve discussed the origins and purpose of Common Core. One of the primary areas of confusion surrounding the Common Core is the difference between curricula and standards. This has…

Now that we’ve discussed the origins of Common Core and the difference between standards and curricula, we want to look at another important aspect of Common Core, “instructional shifts.” These…

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This month the Education Trust came out with the newest report in its Shattering Expectations series. The report, entitled Finding America’s Missing AP and IB Students, focuses on the under-representation…

Our March 28th Best Practices Forum is designed to highlight strategic innovations that close achievement gaps while raising overall student performance, and Dr. Immacula Didier, principal of Ramon E. Betances…

In a packed meeting space in Hartford’s El Centro Family Center, dozens of education advocates, neighborhood parents and their stroller-bound children stood shoulder to shoulder with Lt. Governor Wyman, Commissioner…

In 1993, CBIA aired the following TV spot outlining the need for education reform in Connecticut. Two decades have passed and today, too many of our children are denied the…

Read the Governor’s full proposal for the 2012 legislative session, which was distributed subsequent to his State of the State address on February 8, 2012.

Read our comprehensive plan, released in 2010, for closing Connecticut’s achievement gap while raising academic achievement for all students.

Read their report from January 2012, on ideas for increasing student achievement.

Read their report from November 9, 2011 – on over 150 recommendations to create a system that places the learner at the center of policy decisions.