You can listen to our episode about how Calexico High School raised their FAFSA completion rates by 13 percentage points in one year here.
Table of Contents
1:40 The three questions that define "Improvement with a capital I"
1:56 How improvement normally happens, and what's missing (with an example from a classroom)
3:44 The CARPE College Access Network's plan to raise FAFSA completion
4:41 The CARPE network's four recommended FAFSA practices
7:31 "We tend to underestimate how much rich work goes into the implementation of an idea"
8:20 Ben's take on whether "handholding" is a problem in the college application process
9:39 How Ben learned to stop worrying and love specific suggestions
10:42 There are SO much stuff to improve in our schools, so if someone has some ideas, that's pretty compelling
11:56 A revolutionary idea: maybe not everyone does everything they plan to do
13:03 How the CARPE team actually collected data about what schools were doing
15:32 School Improvement Networks: a secret tool for influencing education policy