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