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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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The federal government is underinvesting in education research

Daniel Correa 4.2.2023
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Rewrite attendance laws to promote learning, not seat time

Chester E. Finn, Jr. 3.30.2023
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The agonizing individualism of progressive education

Daniel Buck 3.30.2023
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Secretary Cardona asked states to “raise the bar.” New York responded by lowering it.

Dale Chu 3.30.2023
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High schoolers don’t graduate with the learning habits to succeed in college

Nathaniel Grossman 3.30.2023
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How the “math wars” are different from the “reading wars”

Natalie Wexler 3.24.2023
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Conservatives’ blunder: Making enemies of public school teachers

Robert Pondiscio 3.23.2023
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Yes, high school English can be a bore. No, it’s not Common Core’s fault.

Meredith Coffey, Ph.D. 3.23.2023
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New evidence of weak benefits to student-teacher matching on race

Jeff Murray 3.23.2023
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States can improve equity and outcomes in gifted education, but too many aren’t trying

Brandon L. Wright 3.22.2023
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Keep the tests, but reform the test prep

Emily Freitag 3.17.2023
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We know student effort matters, so let’s start acting like it

Eva Moskowitz 3.16.2023
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