The Broader Bolder Approach to Education is a national campaign that acknowledges the impact of social and economic disadvantage on schools and students and proposes evidence-based policies to improve schools and remedy conditions that limit many children’s readiness to learn.
Read the BBA Mission Statement and Accountability Statement to learn more. Use the BBA short video and infographic to spread the word. Access the new BBA report, Market-Oriented Reforms' Rhetoric Trumps Reality, and executive summary, here.
BBA's Research Base
The BBA Bibliography provides synopses of seminal research works that demonstrate how living in poverty impedes educational attainment and the efficacy of a broader, bolder approach to education.
“ On the one hand, the rewards for buckling down and graduating from college have never been higher. On the other, the resources available to low-income families to pay for their children’s preschool, for access to good public schools or to private education, and for college investments have fallen farther behind those of affluent families.
From Whither Opportunity by Greg J. Duncan, and Richard J Murnane
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News Feature
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April 22, 2013: Huffington Post
Can We Move Past Market-oriented "Reforms" to Policies That Actually Work?
By Elaine Weiss
It has been a decade since reformers promised a swift solution to America's most challenging education problems. Instead of results, we have gotten rhetoric, and our children have fallen further behind. It is time we adopt policy solutions that match the depth and complexity of the problems and address them head on.
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Who We Are
- Our Leadership: Co-Chairs and Advisory Council
- Our Funders
- Signatories
- Partner Organizations
- National Coordinator
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In addition to the high-profile original signatories, many of whom helped to draft BBA's mission statement, hundreds of people from across the country who agree with BBA’s mission continue to sign on. Join them!
