Mass Insight Education’s Great Schools Campaign, co-chaired by Paul Grogan (The Boston Foundation) and Gloria Larson (Bentley College) has convened business, community, and school leaders to develop a package of new goals, new funding, and new strategies that address the unfinished agenda of Massachusetts school reform. That agenda for the second great phase of Massachusetts' drive to significantly improve student achievement is summarized in the 2005 report, The Unfinished Agenda.

Massachusetts is at a critical juncture in its commitment to guarantee all students their constitutional right to a quality education. While much has been accomplished since the passage of the Education Reform Act of 1993 – including the creation of higher academic standards, high quality testing, a graduation requirement, and increased state funding – the work is not done by any means.

The Great Schools Campaign is Mass Insight’s effort to bring together business, community, and school leaders to urge the Commonwealth to move beyond the standards, tests, and stakes that shaped the first decade of school reform, and strategically allocate resources in a focused, coordinated approach that will help all students reach for proficiency – the skill level required for success after high school, and by the year 2014 under the federal No Child Left Behind law.

The Campaign and The Unfinished Agenda led directly to the cystallization of two primary high-impact reform levers for Mass Insight: achieving excellence in math and science (in part through the organization's AP Training and Incentive Program), and turnaround of the poorest-performing schools as a gateway to wider reform.