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Transforming Urban Education: Implications for State Policymakers Brief

By Laura Lefkowits, McREL's vice president for Policy and Planning Services and Barbara Diamond, senior advisor at KnowledgeWorks

McREL, in conjunction with KnowledgeWorks Foundation, has published a brief that describes the process of scenario building and how it can help school districts in urban centers prepare for the future of education. The brief, written by McREL’s Laura Lefkowits, vice president of policy and planning services, and Barbara Diamond, a senior advisor at KnowledgeWorks, is based on work undertaken in 2008 by the two organizations with the Ohio 8 Coalition.

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The Trend Tracker Catalog monitors ongoing trends in education and the drivers of change that may affect education in the future. It provides analysis of news articles, blog discussions, published reports, and other resources to determine the degree to which each of McREL's four scenarios is unfolding in the real world.