Anatomy of School System Improvement: Performance-Driven Practices in Urban School Districts
May 2005 Download the PDF
With the support of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, NewSchools Venture Fund has embarked on a three-year research project tracking the adoption of performance-driven practices in urban school systems.
In this first year, our research partner, the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME), analyzed the state of performance-driven practices within 28 leading school districts. The goal of this first year of study was to define the features of a performance-driven school system and to set a benchmark against which to measure future years of adoption of performance-driven practices.