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The Big Test: The Future of Statewide Standardized Assessments
Standardized testing has been a cornerstone of school reform for two decades. But a…
Disrupted: The Path to School Reform in the Nation’s Capital
When the District of Columbia’s city councilors handed 36-year-old Mayor Adrian Fenty control of the…
Master’s of None: The Fallacy of Advanced Ed Degrees
David Firestone, a special ed teacher in New York City, is in his final semester…
School Climate Surveys in State ESSA Plans
School climate and student engagement have emerged as key elements in promoting academic success. Recognizing…
The New Testing Landscape: State Assessments Under ESSA
State testing systems are in transition. Buffeted by anti-testing sentiment on the left…
Teacher Mindsets: How Educators’ Perspectives Shape Student Success
Research increasingly points to the importance of social and emotional learning to student…
Common Lotteries and the Future of Urban Public Education
New common enrollment systems permit families to select traditional public schools and charters using a single…
CORE Lessons: Measuring the Social and Emotional Sides of Student Success
The intensifying interest among education policymakers in the social and emotional dimensions of student success…
Scaling Reform: Tennessee’s Statewide Teacher Transformation
The federal Every Student Succeeds Act has placed authority for improving education squarely in states’…
Why It’s Wrong to Write Off the SIG Program
Twelve state and local evaluations of a federal grant program aimed at turning around struggling…
Writing the Rules for Tackling Chronic Absenteeism
Nearly three quarters of states now include chronic absenteeism in their rubrics for assessing…
A Policymaker’s Playbook for Transforming Teaching
District of Columbia Public Schools has been a source of some sensational headlines over the past…
Who’s In: Chronic Absenteeism Under ESSA
When Congress rewrote the federal education law in 2015, lawmakers sought to scale back the…
Vouchers in D.C.: Choosing Not to Choose
In May, after the Republican-controlled Congress renewed the private school voucher program for Washington, D.C.,…
How D.C. Schools Are Revolutionizing Teaching
When most people think of school reform in the District of Columbia, they probably remember…
Vouchers in Indiana: A Cautionary Tale
UPDATE: The latest research released in August 2018 shows that Indiana students…
Grading the Graders: Teacher Evaluation Reform
Until recently, there was scant attention paid to teacher evaluation in American public education.