How Do State Leaders Want to Change the Every Student Succeeds Act?
ESSA is widely criticized, but our new survey shows that most assessment and accountability leaders favor few changes.
Read MoreESSA is widely criticized, but our new survey shows that most assessment and accountability leaders favor few changes.
Read MoreStates complain that ESSA bars them from getting the accountability systems they really want. We present three examples of systems that show otherwise.
Read MoreStates can have the school accountability systems they value by minimizing the footprint of the Every Student Succeeds Act.
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 MoreStates can better support school improvement by building stronger connections between accountability design and school improvement.
Read MoreStudent growth measures for accountability do not require a vertical scale and, in fact, may be hampered by one.
Read MoreHear from a Center intern on his work studying performance mobility in contemporary school accountability systems.
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 […]
Read MoreThe 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 […]
Read MoreHow 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 Education Act (ESEA), contains federal accountability requirements […]
Read MoreAdvocating for Changes to Federal Accountability Requirements to Enable Innovative Assessment Many of us at the Center for Assessment have led assessment reform for decades, including such noteworthy programs as […]
Read MoreCurrently, three states have publicly announced their intention to pursue a waiver from federal testing requirements for the 2020-2021 academic year. In a few other states, there appears to be […]
Read MoreA Return to the Status Quo is Unlikely and That’s Just Fine For those hoping for minimal disruption to ESSA school accountability, I have bad news and more bad news. […]
Read MoreStarting a Discussion on How Federal Policy Can Better Support Innovation to Increase Student Learning Opportunities Here at the National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment, we think a […]
Read MoreWhat Does Innovative Assessment Really Mean, and What Has Recent Assessment Innovation Looked Like? The Innovative Assessment Demonstration Authority (IADA) provision of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) ostensibly offers […]
Read MoreCreating a Framework to Help Describe Differences in How States Identify Schools for Support and Improvement This is the second in a series of CenterLine posts by our 2019 summer interns and […]
Read MoreAn Innovator’s Hope In my previous glass-half-empty post, I outlined my considerable reservations with the Innovative Assessment Demonstration Authority (IADA) component of the Every Students Succeeds Act (ESSA). Specifically, I expressed […]
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