Chapter
Innovating toward Relationships
Chapter 1: The Social Side of Opportunity: Why Relationships Matter to Meritocracy
Meritocracy's Mythical Origins
Opportunity by the Numbers: A Tale of Two Childhoods
Relationship Gaps: Hidden Disparity
How Schools Can Address Relationship Gaps
A Glimpse at the Consequences of Relationship Gaps
Investing in Students' Social Capital
Chapter 2: Getting by with a Little Help from Our Friends: What Schools Need to Know
about Social Capital
Strong Ties Make Us Stronger
The Surprising Strength of Weak Ties
The Spectrum of Our Connections
Homophily's Stronghold on Networks
Institutional Designs Can Make-or Break-Our Networks
Integrating Social Capital into the Architecture of School
Why Schools' Modular Architecture Costs Students
Chapter 3: There's No App for That: The Power of Integrating Access
to Strong Ties and Care
Transcending Challenges with Care
City Connects: Constructing an Individualized Network of Care
Relationships at the Core
Covering the Costs of Care
Integrating Forward to Address Opportunity Gaps
Tools Expanding Access to Opportunity
Chapter 4: Edtech That Connects: How New Technologies Can Disrupt
Students’ Networks
Reaching beyond Your Inherited Network
Networks as a Gateway to Opportunity
Is Technology Disrupting Our Social Networks?
New Technologies Disrupting the Limits of Inherited Networks
On-Demand Advice: Multiplying Access to Relatable Guidance
Brief Encounters: Scaling Access to Industry Professionals
More Supports: Increasing Academic Help and Spurring Motivation
Charting a Disruptive Path Forward
Improving Quality, Monitoring Safety
Diversifying on the Basis of Similarity
Designing Tools with Homophily in Mind
Chapter 5: Making Space for Relationships: Redesigning School as a Caring
and Networking Hub
The Current Architecture Closing Off School
Innovations Reshaping School Architecture
Transitioning away from Batch-Processing Students
Going Online to Get Offline
Awarding Credit for Real-World Experiences
Opening Up to Out-of-School Learning
Can Innovations in Learning and Connecting Work Together?
Strengthening Teacher-Student Ties
Other Ties in Students' Lives
The Next Phase of Schools: Walled Gardens for Learning and Connecting
Tools to Curate Walled Gardens
Building a Networking and Opportunity Hub
Chapter 6: If You Build It, Will They Connect?: Engaging Outsiders inside Schools
Getting at the Job to Be Done
A Milkshake Is More Than a Milkshake
Mentors' Various Jobs to Be Done
Jobs Transcend Demographic Categories
``Unbundling´´ across Jobs
What Are Students Hiring For?
Why Teachers Hire Schools and Tools
Using Jobs to Reach Your Goals
Defining the Metrics of Success
Chapter 7: What Gets Measured Gets Done: School Metrics and Policies Reconsidered
Pulling Back the Curtain on Network Gaps
The Power of Transparency to Drive Change
Taking Stock: Relationships as Outcomes
Relationships Can Keep on Giving
Preparing for the Unknown
How Schools Can Measure Webs of Relationships over Time
Measurement Approaches for System Leaders and Policymakers
Enabling Conditions-Policies That Will Open Up Schools and Ensure Safety
Extended Learning Opportunities
Competency-Based Learning Policies
Privacy and Infrastructure Policies to Secure Students' Networks
A Relationship-Rich Future
Conclusion: Designing for a Networked Society,
Labor Market, and Life
Schools' Role in a Networked Future
Shifting Social Capital to Match Our Needs
End User License Agreement
Who You Know
：Unlocking Innovations That Expand Students' Networks
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