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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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The state of computer science education
Jessica Poiner 12.2.2021
NationalFlypaper
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Cheers and Jeers: December 2, 2021
The Education Gadfly 12.2.2021
NationalFlypaper
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Education Gadfly Show #797: Why debunked reading practices continue to spread
Michael J. Petrilli, Sandi Jacobs, David Griffith, Amber M. Northern, Ph.D. 11.30.2021
NationalPodcast
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Stop pestering education leaders to “follow the evidence.” Instead, host forecasting tournaments.
Mike Goldstein 11.23.2021
NationalFlypaper
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Teacher mental health days demonstrate districts’ priorities—and it’s not the students
Dale Chu 11.18.2021
NationalFlypaper
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What is virtue and why does it matter?
Jennifer Frey 11.18.2021
NationalFlypaper
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In almost every state, funding gaps between rich and poor schools have been closed
Adam Tyner, Ph.D. 11.18.2021
NationalFlypaper
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Education Gadfly Show #796: What Glenn Youngkin’s election says about education politics today
Michael J. Petrilli, Andrew J. Rotherham, David Griffith, Adam Tyner, Ph.D. 11.16.2021
NationalPodcast
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Communicating the “learning” in social-emotional learning
Sheldon Berman, Linda Darling-Hammond 11.12.2021
NationalFlypaper
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The fall of the yellow-school-bus system requires swift modernization
Matthew Ladner 11.12.2021
NationalFlypaper
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Effectively implementing social-emotional learning means getting the terminology right
William Rost, Jeremy Smith 11.12.2021
NationalFlypaper