Learning to improve: how America's schools can get better at getting better

As a field, education has largely failed to learn from experience. Time after time, promising education reforms fall short of their goals and are abandoned as other promising ideas take their place. In Learning to Improve , the authors argue for a new approach. Rather than oimplementing fast and learning slow,o they believe educators should adopt a more rigorous approach to improvement that allows the field to olearn fast to implement well.o Using ideas borrowed from improvement science, the authors show how a process of disciplined inquiry can be combined with the use of networks to identify, adapt, and successfully scale up promising interventions in education. Organized around six core principles, the book…