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Social Capital increases school performance

Posted August 19, 2011 9:22 AM by Ted Jackson

So the cover story of the Fall 2011 issue of the Stanford Social Innovation Review is called "The Missing Link in School Reform." At Ascendant, we help a lot of schools to improve performance, so the article caught my eye. In the article, author Carrie Leana introduces the concept of Social Capital. She says that it may be more important than Human Capital in improving schools.

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Joe Siedlecki from the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation continues this discussion at the MSDF website.

http://www.msdf.org/blog/msdf-officer's-blog/2011/09/28/scaling-social-capital-in-schools-real-gains-require-systematization
# Posted By Ted | 9/28/11 4:04 PM
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