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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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Ohio's ever-evolving value-added accountability system
Aaron Churchill 10.18.2013
NationalBlog
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Getting implementation right
10.18.2013
NationalFlypaper
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Shaking things up in the best of ways
The Education Gadfly 10.17.2013
NationalBlog
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Changing the conversation: The promise of the Common Core reading standards
Kathleen Porter-Magee 10.17.2013
NationalBlog
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Rethinking high school
Chester E. Finn, Jr. 10.14.2013
NationalFlypaper
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Showtime's over, the hard work continues
Aaron Churchill , Jeff Murray 10.14.2013
NationalBlog
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Common Core has nationalized our curriculum & these local decisions prove it!
Kathleen Porter-Magee 10.9.2013
NationalBlog
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Change and opportunity for Ohio’s urban districts
Aaron Churchill 10.8.2013
NationalBlog
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Implementing the Common Core: Notes from a rural Ohio school
Theda Sampson 10.8.2013
NationalBlog
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CCSSO gives the feds a way out
10.8.2013
NationalFlypaper
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Into the lion’s den: Defending the Common Core at Cato
10.8.2013
NationalBlog