#888: Building bridges in education reform, with Frances Messano

<p>On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Frances Messano, the CEO of NewSchools Venture fund, joins Mike to discuss the Building Bridges Initiative and its call to action, <em>A Generation at Risk</em>. Then, on the Research Minute, Amber discusses new research that finds that attending KIPP middle and high schools dramatically increases students’ rate of college completion.</p><p><b>Recommended content:</b></p><ul><li><em>A Generation at Risk: A Call to Action</em> —<a href='https://buildingbridgesineducation.org/'>The Building Bridges Initiative</a></li><li>“How to meet students’ social-emotional and academic needs when schools reopen” —<a href='https://www.newschools.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/EDSS_Insights_3_FINAL.pdf'>Frances Messano</a></li><li>“A bridge back to bipartisan education reform” —<a href='—'>Michael Petrilli</a></li><li>“An expanded definition of student success should guide the pandemic-era learning recovery” —<a href='https://www.newschools.org/blog/an-expanded-definition-of-student-success-should-guide-the-pandemic-era-learning-recovery/'>Jason Atwood</a></li><li>Alicia Demers, Ira Nichols-Barrer, Elisa Steele, Maria Bartlett, and Philip Gleason, “<a href='https://www.mathematica.org/publications/long-term-impacts-of-kipp-middle-and-high-schools-on-college-enrollment-persistence-and-attainment'>Long-term impacts of KIPP middle and high schools on college enrollment, persistence, and attainment</a>,” Mathematica (September 2023).</li></ul><p><b>Feedback Welcome:</b> Have ideas for improving our podcast? Send them to Daniel Buck at <a href='mailto:dbuck@fordhaminstitute.org'>dbuck@fordhaminstitute.org</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>