Topics: Education Policy

This companion document to our “assessment flexibility guidance” is meant to support states requesting assessment flexibility from the U.S.

In partnership with CCSSO, this document is designed to support state leaders seeking flexibility in their state assessment programs for 2021.

In Understanding Pandemic Learning Loss and Learning Recovery: The Role of Student Growth & Statewide Testing we show how states, with spring 2021 assessment data together with student growth resu…

This CCSSO sponsored paper discusses assessment considerations for fall 2020, focusing on specific use-cases associated with key education stakeholders and offers 10 recommendations, which should be a…

Senior Associate, William Lorié, analyzes the policy challenges and provides recommendations associated with having college admissions tests meet federal assessment requirements under ESSA.

Executive Director Scott Marion, Associate Director Chris Domaleski, and Center Associate Chris Brandt offer a set of assessment and accountability recommendations for the reauthorization of the Eleme…

Juan D’Brot and Scott Marion led an Assessment Task Force for the New Mexico Public Education Department to help create this framework for New Mexico’s next statewide assessment system and to lay …

This brief provides recommendations to support state education agencies establish coherent state plans for ESSA and Perkins.

The Center has developed a series of briefs to support Alabama’s Assessment Task Force as they make decisions for their new assessment system.

This paper provides guidance to help state education leaders develop an implementation plan to address the provisions of the Every Student Succeeds Act related to locally-selected, nationally-recogniz…

This brief addresses key questions related to the requirements and implications of the Every Student Succeeds Act provision related locally-selected, nationally-recognized high school assessments.

Susan Lyons, Juan D’Brot, and Erika Landl developed the following resource to provide state accountability leaders an overview of the federal law and key design considerations as they develop id…

This paper examines the conceptual and practical challenges in developing a system of interim assessments that produces a single summative score for accountability purposes, in line with that detailed…

Associate Director Chris Domaleski, along with Senior Associate Brian Gong and colleagues at the Council for Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) wrote a paper to help states wrestle with the challenge…

This brief summarizes the requirements defined within ESSA for the school quality/student success indicator and outlines key factors to consider when identifying, evaluating, and implementing these in…

This book chapter provides a practical framework that decision-makers can use to contextualize, analyze, and more thoughtfully navigate the ethical quandaries that exist in the teacher evaluation syst…