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Standards, Testing, and Accountability
Accountability was widely embraced as a reform strategy in the 1990s, but skepticism has grown about whether the approach is working. Amid mounting evidence that state-level accountability systems have been built on wildly differing expectations for student performance, there has been increased interest in the development of common academic standards that could be adopted by all 50 states.
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School Policy
Charter Authorizers Face Challenges
Strong authorizing can create and support high-quality charter schools, and weak authorizing can enable lousy charter schools to open or stay open.
Government and Politics
Do Americans Know How Well Their State’s Schools Perform?
Evidence suggests that Americans have been wise enough to ignore the woefully misleading information about student proficiency rates generated by state testing systems when forming judgments about the quality of their state’s schools.
Government and Politics
Do Americans Know How Well Their State’s Schools Perform?
Evidence suggests that Americans have been wise enough to ignore the woefully misleading information about student proficiency rates generated by state testing systems when forming judgments about the quality of their state’s schools.
Ending the SEA As We Know It
While working for the New Jersey Department of Education, I consistently struggled with a basic problem. My organization wasn’t designed to do the things that our leadership team prioritized.
Obama for Governor!
But first clean up Head Start
The Unheralded Virtues of Grown-Up Policymaking, New Jersey-style
How New Jersey has tried to bridge the gap between policy and practice on teacher evaluations.
What We’re Watching: AEI Event on Cage-Busting Leadership
Chris Barbic, Deb Gist, Kaya Henderson, Adrian Manuel, and Michelle Rhee were at AEI to discuss Rick Hess’s new book on the constraints education leaders face (and imagine).
Inside Schools
By the Company It Keeps: Tim Daly
An interview with Tim Daly, President of TNTP
What We Can Learn From A Dinner Controversy In The Desert
Will we still need teachers as digital learning rises?
Why Don’t Entrepreneurs And Learning Scientists Talk Much?
All too often, products and services in the education market are not informed by what we know about learning.
A Better Blend: Combine Digital Instruction with Great Teaching
Today’s blended models will likely fall short unless they include excellent teachers playing instructional and team leadership roles that maximize technology’s impact in tandem with their own.
One Giant Leap for Teacher Development
I’m all but certain a number of states will take this report’s lessons to heart, and once again it will be said that TNTP influenced for the better our educator policies and practices.
School Policy
Charter Authorizers Face Challenges
Strong authorizing can create and support high-quality charter schools, and weak authorizing can enable lousy charter schools to open or stay open.
The School Inspector Calls
Low ratings drive improvements for schools in England
Am I a Part of the Cure … or the Disease?
Will testing and accountability make matters worse? No, they will make matters marginally better.
What We’re Watching: Vouchers and College Attendance
Eric Hanushek and Paul E. Peterson discuss a new study of how vouchers increase the likelihood of college attendance.
Conservatives and the Common Core
When a group of state leaders, many of them Republicans, can come together to set expectations for the curricular core that surpass what most of them set on their own, conservatives ought to applaud, not lash out
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