Standards

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Commentary
8.28.2019
Accountability & Testing, Governance, Standards

The proficiency bar is inching upward, yes, but…

Chester E. Finn, Jr.

A dozen long years ago, when people were just beginning to take serious stock of what good and not-so-good was emerging from 2002’s enactment of No Child Left Behind (NCLB), we at Fordham, in league with the Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA), issued a 200-plus page analysis of the “proficiency” standards that states had by then been required to set and test for.

Commentary
8.28.2019
Accountability & Testing, Curriculum & Instruction, Advanced Education, Standards

Influences affecting the educational trajectory of students

Jeff Murray

A new study from Georgetown University reaffirmed an uncomfortable but familiar finding: Socioeconomic status has a significant effect on students’ long-term outcomes, regardless of their academic performance in kindergarten or the quality of the schools they attend in K–12.

Commentary
8.27.2019
Accountability & Testing, Curriculum & Instruction, Standards

NEW REPORT: End-of-Course Exams and Student Outcomes

Adam Tyner, Ph.D., Matthew Larsen

This report provides a rich longitudinal look at state policies related to end-of-course exams over the past twenty years and the effects of administering EOCs in different subjects on high school graduation rates and college entrance exam scores.

Commentary
8.21.2019
Accountability & Testing, Curriculum & Instruction, Governance, Standards

The kids who had been “left behind” are doing much better today than 25 years ago. But what about everyone else?

Michael J. Petrilli

The past quarter-century has included dramatic progress of America’s lowest-performing students, many of whom are also low-income and children of color. But how’s the vast middle class doing? It’s a mixed bag: They still don’t read very well, but their math skills have improved a bit and they are graduating from college in higher and higher numbers.

Report
11.29.2018
Accountability & Testing, ESSA, Curriculum & Instruction, Standards

Gotta Give 'Em Credit: State and District Variation in Credit Recovery Participation Rates

Adam Tyner, Ph.D., Nicholas Munyan-Penney

Credit recovery, or the practice of enabling high school students to retrieve credits from courses that they either failed or failed to complete, is at the crossroads of two big trends in education: the desire to move toward “competency based” education and a push to dramatically boost graduation rates.

Report
8.22.2018
Standards

The State of State Standards Post-Common Core

David Griffith, Ph.D., Victoria McDougald

Eight years ago, we compared states’ English language arts (ELA) and mathematics standards to what were then the newly-minted Common Core State Standards. That report found that the Common Core was clearer and more rigorous than the ELA standards in thirty-seven states and stronger than the math standards in thirty-nine states.

Report
7.17.2018
Curriculum & Instruction, Standards

Reading and Writing Instruction in America's Schools

David Griffith, Ph.D.

Since 2010, when most states adopted the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), the Thomas B. Fordham Institute has been committed to monitoring their implementation.

Commentary
8.7.2017
Standards

Illiteracy in Ohio: Where does the buck stop?

Madison Yoder

Last month, several urban Ohio school districts began sounding alarms over Ohio’s third-grade reading guarantee—a policy put in place several years ago that requires students who don’t reach reading proficiency by the end of grade three to be held back—fearful that a much larger number of their third graders won’t meet the requirements for promotion.

Report
3.14.2017
Curriculum & Instruction, Standards

The Right Tool for the Job: Improving Reading and Writing in the Classroom

Melody Arabo, Jonathan S. Budd, Shannon Garrison, Tabitha Pacheco

Although it’s been almost seven years since many states took the important step of elevating their academic standards by adopting the Common Core, teachers and administrators across the country still bemoan the lack of reliable information about which instructional materials are high-quality and best aligned to the new standards.  

Report
6.23.2016
Curriculum & Instruction, Standards, Teachers & School Leaders

Common Core Math in the K-8 Classroom: Results from a National Teacher Survey

Jennifer M. Bay-Williams, Ann Duffett, David Griffith, Ph.D.

In Common Core Math in the K-8 Classroom: Results from a National Teacher Survey, Jennifer Bay Williams, Ann Duffett, and David Griffith take a close look at how educators are implementing the Common Core math standards in classrooms across the nation.

Undefined
2.17.2016
Standards

The Grammy edition

In this week's podcast, Robert Pondiscio and Brandon Wright laud the progress of education policies since NCLB, weigh gentrification’s role in D.C.’s achievement gains, and discuss the controversy surrounding a Success Academies video. In the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines educators’ perspectives on Common Core implementation.

Report
2.11.2016
Accountability & Testing, Standards

Evaluating the Content and Quality of Next Generation Assessments

Evaluating the Content and Quality of Next Generation Assessments examines previously unreleased items from three multi-state tests (ACT Aspire, PARCC, and Smarter Balanced) and one best-in-class state assessment, Massachusetts’ state exam (MCAS). The product of two years of work by the Thomas B.

Commentary
3.11.2015
Standards, Curriculum & Instruction

EdReports.org

Victoria McDougald

A great resource fact-checks textbooks’ “Common Core-aligned” claims. Victoria Sears

Commentary
3.11.2015
Standards

GreatKids Milestones

Robert Pondiscio

A new video series shows what it looks like when your kid meets Common Core benchmarks. Robert Pondiscio

Commentary
3.9.2015
Standards, Curriculum & Instruction

Moral facts and the Common Core

Kathleen Porter-Magee

Just when you thought we’d run out of things to blame on the standards. Kathleen Porter-Magee

Commentary
3.3.2015
Standards, Curriculum & Instruction

CPAC's Common Core vaudeville show

Robert Pondiscio

I’d like to see Bobby Jindal use a teleprompter the next time he attacks Common Core. I’d like to be reassured he knows how to read.