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8.31.2016
Accountability & Testing

The high achievers edition

On this week’s podcast, Mike Petrilli, Alyssa Schwenk, and Robert Pondiscio discuss states’ neglect of high achievers and how ESSA might prompt them to do better. During the research minute, Amber Northern reports on the good news about narrowing socioeconomic gaps in kindergarten readiness.

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8.31.2016
Accountability & Testing, ESSA, Advanced Education

High Stakes for High Achievers: State Accountability in the Age of ESSA (Part I)

Michael J. Petrilli, David Griffith, Brandon L. Wright, Audrey Kim

No Child Left Behind meant well, but it had a pernicious flaw: It created strong incentives for schools to focus all their energy on helping low-performing students get over a modest “proficiency” bar. Meanwhile, it ignored the educational needs of high achievers, who were likely to pass state reading and math tests regardless of what happened in the classroom.