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
Shut bad schools for low performance, but don't draw conclusions from test scores alone
Michael J. Petrilli 5.3.2016
NationalFlypaper
America's Report Card: We're still ignoring low-income high-achievers
Chester E. Finn, Jr., Brandon L. Wright 4.29.2016
NationalFlypaper
Announcing the Fordham Institute's third annual Wonkathon. This year's topic: ESSA and parental choice
Michael J. Petrilli 4.28.2016
NationalWonkathon
The causes and consequences of test score manipulation in New York
Amber M. Northern, Ph.D. 4.27.2016
NationalFlypaper
Is there actually a national teacher shortage?
4.27.2016
NationalBlog
A Policymaker's Guide to Improving School Leadership
Eric Lerum 4.26.2016
NationalNew Media
Getting serious about college and career readiness
4.21.2016
NationalBlog
Implementation of K–12 State Standards for Mathematics and English Language Arts and Literacy
Amber M. Northern, Ph.D. 4.20.2016
NationalBlog
Testing technology gone wrong
Victoria McDougald 4.18.2016
NationalBlog
Relax, Democrats: Hillary Clinton still supports testing
4.14.2016
NationalFlypaper
ESSA oversight hearing: Full transcript
The Education Gadfly 4.13.2016
NationalFlypaper