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
Staying the Course: Transition to the Common Core
1.23.2014
NationalBlog
Policymakers: Stop being agnostic about curriculum
1.23.2014
NationalBlog
Knowledge at the Core: Don Hirsch, Core Knowledge, and the Future of the Common Core
1.22.2014
NationalReport
Staying the Course
1.22.2014
NationalBlog
Catholic Schools deserve an authentically Catholic debate about Common Core
Kathleen Porter-Magee 1.17.2014
NationalBlog
The principled opposition to Common Core
1.16.2014
NationalFlypaper
Weekend reading
1.10.2014
NationalFlypaper
What rhymes with 'self-serving'?
The Education Gadfly 1.9.2014
NationalBlog
SIG in Colorado
12.23.2013
NationalFlypaper
ESEA waivers and charter school authorizing
12.19.2013
NationalBlog
Greater than gaffes: Arne Duncan’s impediments to Common Core implementation (Transitioning to the Common Core, part 4)
Victoria McDougald 12.19.2013
NationalBlog