Accountability Systems Must Offer More Than School Grades
School accountability systems encompass more than what is reflected in school grading systems, which can skew how school quality is seen.
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The Pandemic has Changed the Accountability Landscape
We explore what a national survey tells us about the pandemic impact on accountability systems and how states can prepare for the future.
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Mobility Matters When Designing More Equitable School Accountability Systems
Hear from a Center intern on his work studying performance mobility in contemporary school accountability systems.
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What’s in a Name? Sometimes, Quite a Bit
Considering the Effects of COVID-19 Disruptions on Identifying Schools for Supports Under ESSA Following a two-year hiatus, states must restart their school accountability systems required under ESSA …
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Supporting A Principled Approach to Restarting School Accountability in Spring 2022
Operational Best Practices for Accountability Recently, my colleague Chris Domaleski reminded us of the complexity associated with restarting school accountability in Spring 2022.
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A Principled Approach to Accountability in 2022
Four Principles to Guide State Decisions about ESSA Accountability Systems A large part of the work my colleagues and I do at the Center is focused on helping our clients solve hard problems.
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Oh, What a Year…Again
Responding to Assessment and Accountability Challenges During an Ongoing Pandemic I titled my 2020 year-end CenterLine post, “Oh, What a Year!” with hopes that we were turning the pandemic corner.
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User-Friendly Documentation and Validation Processes
Part 2: Documentation Makes for a Good System. What Makes for a Good System of Documentation? A Vision with Documented Strategy and Tactics Validity is the ultimate goal of any system.
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User-Friendly Documentation and Validation Processes
Part 1: Supporting A Vision with Documented Strategy and Tactics Professionally and personally, we often have projects or tasks where we define desired goals or outcomes, and sometimes even identify t…
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Addressing the Accountability Challenge of Missing Data With A Performance Profile
Consider a Different Way to Put The Pieces Together In a previous post I discussed the challenges of rebuilding accountability systems developed for the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) in …
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Rebuilding School Accountability One Step at a Time
The Process of Restarting Accountability Systems Will be Incremental, Not Immediate As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to subside in the United States, it may be reasonable to expect some education ac…
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Letting Go of Labels in School Accountability Systems
How the next ESEA Reauthorization Can Improve Federal Accountability Requirements The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which is the current reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary …
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The Best Things Come in Threes
Evaluating the Utility of Educational Accountability Systems: Focusing on the Link Between Accountability Identification and Improvement Using a Three-Step Approach Depending on your slant, you probab…
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What’s Next in State Accountability?
The Lack of Consistency in Accountability Results Across the Country Provokes This Fundamental Question States will soon publish (or have already published) the first results of their federally-mandat…
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Rethinking Accountability for Alternative High Schools
The Problems with Applying Traditional Performance Ratings to Alternative Schools Alternative high schools serve a vital role in improving outcomes for students, particularly for those students who ar…
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The Need for Program Evaluation to Support Accountability Implementation
How Summer Grilling Illustrates the Differences Between Formative and Summative Evaluation When I last discussed the need for program evaluation to support accountability implementation, I used the …
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Designing a Coherent System of Accountability Across ESSA and Perkins V
How Considering ESSA and Perkins V as Complementary Parts of a Larger Accountability System Can Help States be Better Aligned with Both For the last several years, I have been working with several sta…
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Improving Accountability: Where Do We Go From Here?
How Can We Focus on Improving Accountability Systems to Improve Student Outcomes? In recent years, assessment and accountability have become charged terms to many.
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