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Every child deserves high-quality public schools in his or her neighborhood. These schools promote a culture in which teachers and principals are supported and motivated to help at-risk students achieve, and in which parents and other community members are active, informed participants in school improvement work.

 
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tactics for giving to support high-quality public schools
  • Support community engagement, advocacy, and parent-leadership focused on school improvement, particularly in low-income communities 
  • Support innovative teacher training programs that effectively address the needs of struggling students and low-performing schools 
  • Support research that drives the adoption of best practices in teaching and school leadership
The Seattle Foundation evaluated organization
Only 73.5% of Washington students - and slightly over 60% of black and Latino students - graduate from high school with their peers.
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Investment Initiatives Support Academic Success of Seattle Public Schools' Children
The Alliance for Education seeks to help children in Seattle Public Schools achieve academic success. The organization does this through investment initiatives related to college readiness, community engagement, school board and staff development, and data assessment.
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Principles for Effective Education Grantmaking: Roadmap for Results in Education Philanthropy
Principles for Effective Education Grantmaking serves as a roadmap to foster excellence in these practices by education funders.
Pathways to Prosperity
The Pathways to Prosperity Project examines the reasons for our failure to prepare so many young adults, and advances an exciting vision for how the United States might regain the leadership in educational attainment it held for over a century.
One Region's Cradle-to-College Approach
The year-old Community Center for Education Results has galvanized hundreds of key civic players to build a road map toward improving education, cradle to college, in South King County.
The Strengths and Challenges of Community Organizing as an Education Reform Strategy
This new study finds that "by leveraging the collective power of parents, youth, residents, and institutions, community organizing can alter longstanding power imbalances and patterns of inequality that result in failing schools."
Smells Like School Spirit
Diane Ravitch is the nation’s most vocal educational historian. She once was one of the leading intellects behind the education reform movement — emphasizing charter schools, testing and accountability. Over the past few years, she has become that movement’s most vehement critic.

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