Guiding Questions for State School Improvement Efforts

This brief puts forth guiding questions in four key areas for policymakers, and funders, to use as a roadmap for improving outcomes at lower-performing schools. The questions are a guidance to build cross-sector relationships to affect school policy, understand and evaluate current school policies and practices, and create sustainable, appropriate measures to support better outcomes at these schools. This guidance comes from a recent Thinkers Meeting that involved top education policy leaders.