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
We’re losing too many high-achieving low-income students
Michael J. Petrilli 12.4.2025
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Assessing students’ academic mobility via test-based and non-test-based outcomes
Jeff Murray 12.4.2025
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Why are students missing school?
Jill Hoppe 12.4.2025
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50 years of special education in the U.S.: Key components for special education 2.0
Miriam Kurtzig Freedman 12.2.2025
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50 years of special education in the U.S.: Why we need a new law built on the science of learning, not the adversarial legal system
Miriam Kurtzig Freedman 11.25.2025
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How transparency in national education statistics can improve learning options
Dan Lips 11.24.2025
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Why teacher salaries are stagnant
Aaron Garth Smith, Jordan Campbell 11.20.2025
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A “zero-based budgeting” approach for course requirements in the age of AI
Michael J. Petrilli 11.20.2025
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Going back to Obama’s education policies would be a mistake
Chad Aldeman 11.20.2025
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50 years of special education in the U.S.: Where we are now—the good, the bad, and the need for a new law
Miriam Kurtzig Freedman 11.18.2025
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If we want the science of reading to work, we have to start before kindergarten
Amanda Rutter 11.14.2025
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