Mass Insight Education & Research Institute

Transformational Change. World-Class Achievement.

Our mission: the transformation of public schools into high-performance organizations that bring all students to college readiness.

Our guiding principle: that enduring, fundamental change at scale depends on the practical integration of research, policy, and practice.

Our primary strategies:

Attaining excellence in math, science & English through the use of Advanced Placement® to change school culture

Creating systemic curricular and instructional coherence around Advanced Placement® and College Readiness Standards

Transforming urban education through the dramatic, comprehensive turnaround of America's worst-performing schools

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New Initiatives Aim to Transform Urban School Districts through Turnaround of Their Most Struggling Schools

Mass Insight Education & Research Institute announces the formation of the Partnership Zone Initiative - a set of intensive partnerships in three states to turn clusters of chronically under-performing schools into exemplars of district redesign. Mass Insight was recently awarded a two-year, $1.5 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to launch the project, which is further supported by a partial match from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Mass Insight is also assisting the National Governor's Association with a multi-year initiative in four states (CO, MA, MD & MS) to develop policies and practices to turnaround their lowest performing schools. For more information on both initiatives, visit our Services page.

Featured strategies and publications from Mass Insight's knowledge base:

The Turnaround Challenge: download for free or purchase a four-color copy from our Resources page.

Building Blocks : over 100 strategies from six years of effective-practice research

The Unfinished Agenda: [PDF] charting the course for Massachusetts' second decade of education reform

World Class: [PDF] a statewide plan for excellence in math and science

Keep the Promise: lessons from district efforts to help at-risk high school students

Opportunities for interaction and partnership:

Comprehensive turnaround of under-performing schools: how does your state rate?

Massachusetts districts: Join in the Massachusetts Math & Science Initiative, our new program to enhance college readiness by increasing the number of students taking AP® courses and improving pass rates on AP® exams.