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High Expectations

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 states can slow the staffing surge

Aaron Garth Smith 9.22.2026
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We’ve been treating college as a career plan, but it’s failing too many students

Patrick O’Donnell 9.18.2026
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What teachers should learn: An alternative graduate school curriculum

Daniel Buck 9.18.2026
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College or career? On false positives and negatives

Matthew Carr 9.17.2026
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Student AI use is about much more than school rules

Alicia Anderson 9.17.2026
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What state standards look like on the NAEP scale

Amber M. Northern, Ph.D. 9.17.2026
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How money and time shape children’s early advantages

Kendall Rogers 9.17.2026
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The strange education legacy of 9/11

Dale Chu 9.11.2026
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An updated agenda for America’s school finance reforms

Aaron Garth Smith 9.11.2026
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Screens, AI, and grade inflation are hollowing out the American high school experience

Amber M. Northern, Ph.D., Michael J. Petrilli 9.10.2026
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What Massachusetts’s portrait of a learner gets right (and New York’s doesn’t)

Meredith Coffey, Ph.D. 9.10.2026
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Is this the post-homework era?

Alicia Anderson 9.10.2026
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