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Evidence Matters | Making the Grade: Strengthening Schools Through Community
August 10, 2023 Our Making the Grade series has discussed how evaluating a school’s effectiveness and quality comes with a wide array of challenges, particularly when assessing schools that serve larger populations of disadvantaged students....
Continue ReadingEvidence Matters | Making the Grade: The Quest for Quality Measures
August 1, 2023 As we highlighted in our previous Making the Grade posts, the established correlation between socioeconomic status (SES) and academic performance has long created difficulties for those attempting to measure school quality—if a...
Continue ReadingEvidence Matters | Making the Grade: Can an Early Start Lead to a Better Finish?
July 13, 2023 As we highlighted in our last post, when we interpret school report card ratings, it is important that we consider the ways in which various factors—including the overall socioeconomic status (SES) of...
Continue ReadingEvidence Matters | Making the Grade: The Socioeconomic Achievement Gap
July 6, 2023 In our previous post, we highlighted that while school report card rankings can offer insight into a school’s overall performance, they also involve the interaction of a variety of factors—the most significant...
Continue ReadingEvidence Matters | Making the Grade: A Series on the Complexities of School Report Cards
June 15, 2023 With the school year coming to a close, all grades and final report cards have been issued. But one major end-of-year assessment remains outstanding: the South Carolina school report card. Each fall,...
Continue ReadingEvidence Matters | Could the Montessori Method Make Us Happier?
April 26, 2023 According to a January 2023 survey administered by the South Carolina Joint Citizens and Legislative Committee on Children, many school districts in the state continue to report record numbers of vacancies in...
Continue ReadingEvidence Matters | What Montessori Could Mean for Equity
April 12, 2023 Across the country, leaders in public education continue to search for strategies and approaches that address the gap between our highest-performing and lowest-performing students, the latter of whom often come from low-income,...
Continue ReadingEvidence Matters | Making Sense of Montessori
March 29, 2023 As noted in our previous blog post, the Riley Institute’s Evidence Matters series will focus on a wide range of topics relevant to the field of public education. Today’s post will be...
Continue ReadingWhy Evidence Matters: A New Blog Series Highlighting Important Topics in Public Education
March 16, 2023 If you asked 100 people what the word evidence means to them, you might receive 100 different answers. In a society increasingly overloaded with information—and plagued by doubts about what is “real”—...
Continue ReadingA Penny for Your Thoughts: How a One Cent Sales Tax Transformed Education in South Carolina
March 1, 2023 On a recent sunny October afternoon in Columbia, Dick Riley made his way out of the Riley Institute’s WhatWorksSC celebration and headed toward his car. As he passed the concierge’s desk, a...
Continue ReadingFrom the Ground Up: How a Grassroots Movement Became a Blueprint for Getting Things Done
February 15, 2023 In our current political climate, it feels rare that both sides of the aisle come together to address community challenges, but that is what happened during Dick Riley’s second term as South...
Continue ReadingHow Dick Riley, a Man of the People, Made the EIA Happen
January 30, 2023 If you’ve ever been lucky enough to meet Dick Riley, chances are you’ve been greeted in much the same way as the thousands of people who came before you — with a...
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