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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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Are schools essential or not?
Chester E. Finn, Jr. 11.5.2020
NationalFlypaper
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For better or worse, religiously-affiliated charter schools are on their way
Michael J. Petrilli 11.5.2020
NationalFlypaper
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What we're reading this week: November 5
The Education Gadfly 11.4.2020
NationalFlypaper
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About those 12th grade NAEP scores: The cake was (mostly) baked years ago
Michael J. Petrilli 10.29.2020
NationalFlypaper
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Three gubernatorial contests with important ed implications
Dale Chu 10.29.2020
NationalFlypaper
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Gifted education done right benefits Black and Hispanic children. It’s not inherently racist.
Brandon L. Wright 10.29.2020
NationalFlypaper
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Educating patriots
Robert Pondiscio 10.29.2020
NationalFlypaper
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Teacher improvement during the first ten years
David Griffith 10.29.2020
NationalFlypaper
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What we're reading this week: October 29
The Education Gadfly 10.28.2020
NationalFlypaper
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Don’t place all the blame on our high schools—or Trump—if the 12th-grade test scores disappoint this week
Michael J. Petrilli 10.26.2020
NationalFlypaper
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Restarting the “science of reading” conversation
Robert Pondiscio 10.22.2020
NationalFlypaper