LEAP Innovations runs an 18-month program training educators in 140 Chicago schools how to implement personalized learning.

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In Chicago, the metric Freshman OnTrack is more predictive of high school graduation than 8th grade test scores, neighborhood, race, or family income.

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Sarah Turner is president of North Bennet Street School (NBSS), a 138-year-old trade school serving 150 students each year in Boston.

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Benjamin Heuston, the CEO of Waterford.org, discusses how the nonprofit has brought online personalized learning to Utah preschoolers.

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After teaching in New Orleans and working for Teach For America, Aimée Eubanks Davis founded her own program to help first-generation college students prepare for careers after graduation.

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My Tech High partners with innovative public school districts to offer tuition-free, home-centered education programs to 5,000 students, primarily in Utah.

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Lynette Guastaferro is the CEO of Teaching Matters, which currently serves 237 urban schools. I recently talked with Lynette about the subsidiary program Early Reading Matters and efforts to improve how we teach reading skills.

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Liz Chu is executive director of Columbia Law School's Center for Public Research and Leadership (CPRL), which trains graduate students from over 26 different professional schools for careers in education reform.

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AltSchool partners with 25 districts and schools to implement technology-enabled personalized learning. It also operates four tuition-funded lab schools in San Francisco and New York City. Recently I talked with Devin about AltSchool and its unique approach to personalized learning.

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Darleen Opfer serves as director of RAND Education and Labor, heading a 200-person staff that conducts research for major government agencies and private foundations. I recently chatted with Darleen about RAND and the state of education research in general.

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