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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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What’s in a Grade, Anyway? Letter grades are a popular way to describe performance. I’m referring to those same letter grades you received in school – A to F.
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Even the Best Designs Still Have a Burden of Proof Accountability systems are supposed to incentivize behavior that promotes equity in educational opportunity and leads to positive student outcomes.
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A Comprehensive Picture of School Quality and Success Over the past year and a half I have had the pleasure of working with the Massachusetts Association of 766 Approved Private Schools (maaps).
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