Type Of Content: Podcast

To mark the 65th anniversary of the Brown versus Board of Education ruling, Ed Trust created a special edition of ExtraOrdinary Districts.

One of the key lessons that emerged in Education Trust’s podcast, “ExtraOrdinary Districts,” is that improvement requires leadership at the school level.

One of the districts that surprised Sean Reardon the most is Chicago – the nation’s third largest district with about 400,000 students.

What are they doing in Steubenville do be so high performing in elementary school? And how are they addressing the fact that their students don’t continue to perform at the top of the country as they move into secondary grades?

In Episode 2 of Extra-Ordinary Districts, we go to Lexington to find out how it became so high-performing.

Across the nation, many school districts are asking themselves, “What can we do to better serve our students of color and those from low-income communities?”

Anyone who wants to identify “extra-ordinary districts” has a problem: The United States has more than 14,000 school districts and they vary widely.

Anyone who wants to identify “extraordinary districts” has a daunting challenge: The United States has more than 14,000 school districts and they vary widely.