Our Work
All of Public Impact’s work is designed to contribute to dramatic improvements in the quality of K-12 education in the United States. We focus our energy on high points of leverage in our educational system. We have selected our areas of focus, listed in the box to the left, because they hold great promise as levers for change. By clicking each area of focus, you can learn more about the work we do. Across all of these areas, Public Impact employs several strategies to achieve our mission, including:
Devising and advancing visionary but practical ideas about how to improve K-12 education
Scanning both education and cross-industry research to bring the most effective policy and management practices to education leaders
Creating user-friendly tools that help educators, policymakers, and parents do the work that needs doing
Working with leading nonprofit and public agencies committed to implementing cutting-edge ideas
Effective Professional Development
  What we know and how to apply it.

Disconnected Youth Data
  Estimating the youth population ages 14-24 at risk of long-term disconnection.

Connecting Youth through Multiple Pathways
 

Explores the development of pathways to graduation and efforts to reconnect vulnerable youth to school, work and community.
Supporting Education Entrepreneurship
  New report offers nonpartisan solutions to open the door to increased innovation in education.
Investing in Charter Schools
  Guidebook from the Philanthropy Roundtable provides guidance for donors
School Turnarounds: Doing What Works
  Video interviews about the importance of strong leadership and motivating and redeploying staff in turnaround schools.
The Big U-Turn
  Education Next article explains how turnarounds work across sectors
Competencies for Turnaround Success
  Series of resources to help select leaders and teachers likely to be successful in school turnarounds.

 
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