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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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Supporting literacy within ESEA
Robert Pondiscio 8.26.2015
NationalFlypaper
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Schools of Thought: A Taxonomy of American Education Governance
Dara Zeehandelaar Shaw, Ph.D., David Griffith, Joanna Smith, Michael Thier, Ross Anderson, Christine Pitts, Hovanes Gasparian 8.26.2015
NationalReport
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Alternative Student Growth Measures for Teacher Evaluation
Aaron Churchill 8.24.2015
NationalBlog
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We need to know more about credit recovery
Robert Pondiscio 8.21.2015
NationalBlog
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We need to know more about credit recovery
Robert Pondiscio 8.21.2015
NationalBlog
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Don’t base accountability on marginal differences
Aaron Churchill 8.20.2015
NationalBlog
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What will Ohio’s state tests look like in 2015–16?
Jessica Poiner 8.20.2015
NationalBlog
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Beyond Common Core: New poll offers heartening results for reformers
Chester E. Finn, Jr. 8.18.2015
NationalBlog
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The state of standards and assessments, in two maps
8.17.2015
NationalBlog
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The condition of college and career readiness for students from low-income families
Jessica Poiner 8.12.2015
NationalFlypaper
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The new ESEA will be “loose-loose” because Arne Duncan went overboard with “tight-tight”
Michael J. Petrilli 8.12.2015
NationalFlypaper