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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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How bad are the Common Core lessons on the Gettysburg Address?
Tim Shanahan 12.3.2013
NationalBlog
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Why and how parents choose schools
11.27.2013
NationalFlypaper
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Financing the Education of High-Need Students
Matt Richmond, Daniela Fairchild 11.24.2013
NationalReport
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Meanwhile, in ACTUAL federal-overreach news...
11.22.2013
NationalFlypaper
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Stay the course on the Common Core
Michael J. Petrilli 11.20.2013
NationalBlog
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Making Americans: Civic education and the Common Core
11.19.2013
NationalBlog
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Right-sizing the Classroom: Making the Most of Great Teachers
Michael Hansen 11.18.2013
NationalReport
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Common Core Meets Education Reform: What It All Means for Politics, Policy, and the Future of Schooling
Victoria McDougald 11.14.2013
NationalBlog
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Over- and underachievers
The Education Gadfly 11.14.2013
NationalBlog
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Back to basics: Do standards matter?
Kathleen Porter-Magee 11.14.2013
NationalBlog
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Hell yes we want instructional change. Don’t you?
Michael J. Petrilli 11.13.2013
NationalFlypaper