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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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Implementing the Common Core State Standards: Year Two Progress Report from the Great City Schools
Melissa Reynolds 11.7.2013
NationalBlog
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Alternative charters and alternative accountability systems
11.6.2013
NationalFlypaper
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Good standards aren’t prescriptive, but they’re not agnostic, either
Kathleen Porter-Magee 11.1.2013
NationalBlog
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Standardized Testing and the Common Core Standards: You Get What You Pay For?
Victoria McDougald 10.31.2013
NationalFlypaper
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Michigan scores in Common Core whack-a-mole
10.29.2013
NationalFlypaper
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Education reform: Not complicated, but seriously difficult
10.28.2013
NationalFlypaper
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Common Core: Institution, implementation, and assessment
Aaron Churchill 10.28.2013
NationalBlog
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National Reporting Project on the Common Core
Victoria McDougald 10.24.2013
NationalBlog
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Resistance isn’t futile
The Education Gadfly 10.24.2013
NationalBlog
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Common Core in the schools: A first look at reading assignments
Chester E. Finn, Jr., Kathleen Porter-Magee 10.24.2013
NationalBlog
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Common Core in the Schools: A First Look at Reading Assignments
10.23.2013
NationalFlypaper