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
Beware the calls for post-Covid innovation
Dale Chu 3.18.2021
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What will draw more teachers to low-performing schools?
Melissa Gutwein 3.18.2021
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What we're reading this week: March 18, 2021
The Education Gadfly 3.18.2021
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What “building back better” might mean for education and job training in the United States
Marc Tucker 3.12.2021
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Addressing learning loss in one easy lesson
Robert Pondiscio 3.11.2021
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The principal effect: How school leaders affect students and schools
Victoria McDougald 3.11.2021
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What we're reading this week: March 11, 2021
The Education Gadfly 3.11.2021
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The narrow path to do it right: Lessons from vaccine making for high-dosage tutoring
Mike Goldstein, Bowen Paulle 3.10.2021
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Cautious hope for a new history-and-civics roadmap
Chester E. Finn, Jr. 3.4.2021
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Lessons for standardized testing from the cancellation of the NFL scouting combine
Dale Chu 3.4.2021
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Jay Mathews’s admirable optimism about American education
Chester E. Finn, Jr. 3.4.2021
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