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Moving Education From Accountability to Shared Responsibility
Shifting from an accountability mindset to reciprocal responsibility could transform the way schools, districts and states work toward improvement.
Read MoreShifting from an accountability mindset to reciprocal responsibility could transform the way schools, districts and states work toward improvement.
Read MoreAn important new book from the National Academy of Education can support state and district leaders in building balanced assessment systems.
Read MoreThrough-year and other novel test designs face challenges in peer review. Three changes by the U.S. Department of Education could improve the process.
Read MoreWe can reduce testing in schools without sacrificing meaningful annual reports on students’ learning.
Read MoreState testing has long been criticized for many reasons. We undertook a study to examine what tradeoffs might be necessary to reduce the footprint of state testing. Here’s a preview of our early findings.
Read MoreIn a bid to jump-start the program, USED expands the IADA. Nearly $22 million is potentially available to support work on new state assessments.
Read MoreIt’s time to create school accountability systems that recognize the unique roles and responsibilities of states, districts and schools.
Read MoreAfter Georgia pulled out of a federal assessment pilot, the state’s testing chief reflects on the policy changes necessary to support real test improvement.
Read MoreWe don’t refute calls for more sweeping reform, but we must take swift action to make school accountability work better right now.
Read MoreStates must reconsider their content standards, assessments, and testing practices to keep up with two important trends in college- and career-readiness.
Read MoreFederal regulations limit states’ innovations in assessment. More substantial innovation can happen only with more flexibility in accountability.
Read MoreAdvancing educational assessment, like through-year assessment programs, can be supported by changes to the RFP process.
Read MoreLet’s start talking about student learning recovery and stop focusing on the impact of remote instruction during the pandemic.
Read MoreMeasuring post-COVID student learning recovery with large-scale assessment draws focus on how we make sense of test scores.
Read MoreOne small change in Federal testing law could lead to significant improvements in state tests and the perception of state testing.
Read MoreConsidering Options Between Curriculum-Specific and Curriculum-Agnostic State Assessment State summative assessments are intentionally designed to be curriculum-agnostic. The design of these state assessments ignores the various instructional materials and other […]
Read MoreIssues and Considerations Regarding Time Spent on Testing It’s rare to find an issue that nearly everyone agrees with, but I think that the desire to reduce testing time is […]
Read MoreMaking the Case for a New Approach to Federal School Accountability The U.S. Department of Education followed an all too familiar pattern of publishing important guidance just before the Christmas […]
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