Giving Compass' Take:

•  Jessica Campisi, writing for Education Dive, provides an overview of the panelist discussion from the 2019 Reagan Institute Summit on Education on what the modern schoolhouse should look like today.

• What are the most pressing problems in K-12 education right now? What about higher education? 

• Read about the importance of student contribution. 

When it comes to education, the basic framework has remained the same for decades. But as new pieces fade in and out of the classroom experience, some experts and scholars are wondering if it's time to take a look at the overarching model itself, rather than just its parts.

At the 2019 Reagan Institute Summit on Education in Washington, a five-expert panel, with each member representing different areas of education — early-childhood, charter schools, testing, blended learning and wraparound services — gathered to tackle the question of what the modern schoolhouse should look like in today's educational climate.

Each panelist used their knowledge bases to describe their thoughts on modern education and what it needs. Below are some of their remarks.

DIANA RAUNER: We know that children are born learning, and we know that the critical foundations of everything we're trying to build — in terms of school success, workforce development, citizenship — really begins with those foundational skills that are built at the very first years of life. Social-emotional skills like self-regulation, collaboration, grit, executive function — all of those things that allow students to become successful students require a level of self-control and development that begins at the very earliest years of life.

NINA REES: The goal of many of those who started the [charter] movement was about giving teachers more agency in what a school would look like. And to this day, most of our charter school leaders are former teachers and principals in the traditional system who came to the chartering space to do something different.  When you look at our highest-performing charter schools … all of these schools have a number of things in common, which is that not only are they innovating and serving their students well, but they’re now also doing something that we never thought was possible, which was to get these students to college and through college.

Read the full article about education visions by Jessica Campisi at Education Dive.