Publications

The Overview guide explains the essentials of Pilot Schools: autonomy, accountability, small size, and a commitment to equity. It includes data on Pilot Schools, how Pilot Schools fit into the school reform context, and the power of the Pilot Schools Network. 

This case study highlights one low performing Boston public school that decided to become a Pilot School and transformed itself over a period of two years, becoming one of Boston’s more desirable high schools.

This study provides an overview of the success of Boston Pilot schools in the areas of academic performance and engagement. 

This guide provides a framework for thinking about classroom assessment in the middle grades, and challenges the paradigm of standardized tests.

This report examines the efficacy of the Boston Pilot Schools through quantitative indicators of student demographics, student engagement, and student performance.

This report documents how member schools of the Boston Pilot Schools Network use authentic assessments to understand what their students know and can do.

Historically, urban high schools have proven to be the most challenging educational institutions in which to affect lasting reform. Yet policymakers and practitioners in Massachusetts have had insufficient evidence to guide their decision making on the conditions that work to improve student achievement at this level. This report explores this critical issue and generates discussion around possible strategies for leveraging best practices used in Massachusetts urban high schools that are improving.