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The Every Student Succeeds Act significantly improves upon No Child Left Behind by, among other things, giving more power back to states and local schools. We’re working to help policymakers and educators take advantage of the law’s new flexibility, especially when it comes to creating smarter school accountability systems, prioritizing the needs of high-achieving low-income students, and encouraging the adoption of content-rich curricula.
Resources:
- Rating the Ratings: An Analysis of the 51 ESSA Accountability Plans
- Leveraging ESSA to Support Quality-School Growth
- Great ideas from our ESSA Accountability Design Competition
- What ESSA means for high-achieving students
- ESSA and a content-rich education
- ESSA and parental choice
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Is there actually a national teacher shortage?
4.27.2016
NationalBlog
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A Policymaker's Guide to Improving School Leadership
Eric Lerum 4.26.2016
NationalNew Media
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Getting serious about college and career readiness
4.21.2016
NationalBlog
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Implementation of K–12 State Standards for Mathematics and English Language Arts and Literacy
Amber M. Northern, Ph.D. 4.20.2016
NationalBlog
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Testing technology gone wrong
Victoria McDougald 4.18.2016
NationalBlog
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Relax, Democrats: Hillary Clinton still supports testing
4.14.2016
NationalFlypaper
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ESSA oversight hearing: Full transcript
The Education Gadfly 4.13.2016
NationalFlypaper
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Draft ESSA regulations: A mixed bag for educational excellence
Jonathan Plucker, Brandon L. Wright 4.11.2016
NationalFlypaper
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Common Core and PARCC
Victoria McDougald 4.4.2016
NationalBlog
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The 2016 Brown Center report on education: How well are American students learning?
Robert Pondiscio 3.30.2016
NationalFlypaper
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Army brats for Common Core
3.30.2016
NationalBlog