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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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Common Core's first breakout hit?
Robert Pondiscio 5.29.2015
NationalBlog
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Education Longitudinal Study of 2002
5.27.2015
NationalFlypaper
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Closing the Expectations Gap 2014
Chester E. Finn, Jr. 5.27.2015
NationalFlypaper
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Truth and consequences
Chester E. Finn, Jr. 5.26.2015
NationalBlog
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EngageNY's ELA curriculum is uncommonly engaging
Kathleen Porter-Magee, Victoria McDougald 5.20.2015
NationalBlog
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NEW from Fordham: Is EngageNY uncommonly engaging?
The Education Gadfly 5.20.2015
NationalBlog
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Uncommonly Engaging? A Review of the EngageNY English Language Arts Common Core Curriculum
Elizabeth Haydel, Sheila Byrd Carmichael 5.19.2015
NationalReport
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Knowledge is literacy
Robert Pondiscio 5.18.2015
NationalBlog
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Thanks to Common Core, most states will finally close the “honesty gap”
Michael J. Petrilli 5.14.2015
NationalBlog
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Are parents and taxpayers being misled? The proficiency illusion strikes again
Jessica Poiner 5.14.2015
NationalBlog
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Four lessons from the opt-out debate
Robert Pondiscio 5.8.2015
NationalBlog