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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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Fewer students, more dollars, and harder choices

Mike McShane 9.10.2026
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I parented the opposite of “Young Sheldon.” Here’s how that worked out.

Alina Adams 9.9.2026
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Don’t just defend or destroy the National Center for Education Statistics. Rebuild it.

Bruno V. Manno 9.3.2026
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Education got there first? The breakdown of traditional left-right delineations.

Andrew J. Rotherham 9.3.2026
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Examining outcomes-based contracting in eight pilot districts

Jeff Murray 9.3.2026
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The three prongs of education reform success: Policy, programs, and political perseverance

Patricia Levesque 8.28.2026
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New York’s portrait of a graduate is a disaster in the making. Here’s how to minimize the damage.

Meredith Coffey, Ph.D. 8.27.2026
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The loophole quietly undoing America's third-grade reading laws

Harry Anthony Patrinos 8.27.2026
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Students should only use AI for things they already know how to do well

Daniel Willingham 8.27.2026
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Head Start needs reforming, not dismantling | Episode 1032 of The Education Gadfly Show

Chester E. Finn, Jr., Michael J. Petrilli, David Griffith, Ph.D., Amber M. Northern, Ph.D. 8.26.2026
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Education’s ambulance-at-the-bottom problem

Dale Chu 8.20.2026
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Ohio’s implementation of the science of reading

Aaron Churchill 8.20.2026
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