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Jamaal Bowman Discusses the "More Teaching Less Testing Act of 2023"

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Jamaal Bowman

October 13, 2023

Testing is Broken. Can This Bill Fix It?

Newsletter

October 5, 2023

Educational Accountability 3.0: Beyond ESSA

Resource Document

May 1, 2023

What Might a Civil Rights-Focused ESEA Reauthorization Look Like?

October 11, 2022

State Accountability Rating Systems: A Review of School Report Cards as Indicators of School Quality

Policy Brief

Gail L. Sunderman

June 23, 2022

NEPC Review: Fewer Children Left Behind: Lessons From the Dramatic Achievement Gains of the 1990s and 2000s (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, October 2019)

NEPC Review

Jaekyung Lee

November 26, 2019

A Consumer’s Guide to Testing under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA): What Can the Common Core and Other ESSA Assessments Tell Us?

Resource Document

Madhabi Chatterji

March 5, 2019

The Education Debt

Newsletter

November 20, 2018

How to Sustain Community Schools − The Partnership for the Future of Learning Publishes New How-To Guide

Newsletter

August 30, 2018

State-Level Assessments and Teacher Evaluation Systems after the Passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act: Some Steps in the Right Direction

Policy Brief

Kevin Close, Audrey Amrein-Beardsley, and Clarin Collins

June 5, 2018

Community Schools: Closing Opportunity Gaps for Students in Need

Newsletter

December 14, 2017

Community Schools: Closing Opportunity Gaps for Students in Need

December 14, 2017

NEPC Review: Tackling Gaps in Access to Strong Teachers: What State Leaders Can Do (The Education Trust, October 2017)

NEPC Review

Doris A. Santoro

November 28, 2017

NEPC Review: Leveraging ESSA to Support Quality-School Growth (Thomas B. Fordham Institute and Education Cities, March 2017)

NEPC Review

Gail L. Sunderman

June 13, 2017

Report Fails to Muster Evidence to Support School Improvement Strategies that Remove Democratic Control

June 13, 2017

Community Schools: An Evidence-Based Strategy for Equitable School Improvement

Policy Brief

Jeannie Oakes, Anna Maier, and Julia Daniel

June 5, 2017

Community Schools Show Promise as School Improvement Strategy

June 5, 2017

Lessons from NCLB for the Every Student Succeeds Act

Policy Brief

William J. Mathis and Tina Trujillo

November 17, 2016

ESSA: Learning from the Past

November 17, 2016

Making the Most of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) – Helping States Focus on School Equity, Quality and Climate

Policy Memo

William R. Penuel, Elizabeth J. Meyer, and Michelle Renée Valladares

November 15, 2016

Making the Most of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) – Helping States Focus on School Equity, Quality and Climate

November 15, 2016

Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking - 2016 Collection

Policy Brief

William J. Mathis

August 23, 2016

Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act: Time to Move Beyond Test-Focused Policies

Policy Memo

Kevin G. Welner and William J. Mathis

February 12, 2015

Review of The Lessons of No Child Left Behind

NEPC Review

Bruce Fuller

August 27, 2013

Democratic School Turnarounds: Pursuing Equity and Learning from Evidence

Legislative Brief

Tina Trujillo, Michelle Renée Valladares, and Tara Kini

October 1, 2012

NEPC Review: Do High Flyers Maintain Their Altitude? (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, September 2011)

NEPC Review

Jaekyung Lee

October 13, 2011

NEPC Review: 2010 State School Report Card (October 2010)

NEPC Review

Edward García Fierros and Bridget Rooney

December 14, 2010

Ed in the Apple: The Long Road: Can “Performance Tasks,” or, “Projects” Replace Standard Testing as Assessment and Accountability Metrics?

Blog Post of the Day

Peter Goodman

October 19, 2023

Janresseger: As School Reform Devolves to the States, Public Schools Face Unrelenting, Far Right Opposition

Blog Post of the Day

Jan Resseger

October 11, 2023

Answer Sheet: How to Fix the Damage Done to Schools by Federal School Reform Laws

Blog Post of the Day

Valerie Strauss, Ashley J. Carey, Rachel S. White, Derek Gottlieb, and Andy Saultz

October 5, 2023

Janresseger: Can We Unlearn the Test-and-Punish Lexicon No Child Left Behind Taught Us and Demand Reform?

Blog Post of the Day

Jan Resseger

September 25, 2023

A Civil Rights Framework for the Reauthorization of ESEA

Policy Brief

Elizabeth DeBray, Kara Finnigan, Janel George, and Janelle T. Scott

October 11, 2022

Janresseger: We Must Renew Efforts to End High-Stakes “Test and Punish” in U.S. Public Schools

Blog Post of the Day

Jan Resseger

May 4, 2022

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: The Harm Caused by the Third Grade Reading Ultimatum

Blog Post of the Day

Nancy Bailey

April 28, 2022

Answer Sheet: Florida Says It’s Ending Year-End, High-Stakes Standardized Testing. Here’s What It’s Really Doing.

Blog Post of the Day

Valerie Strauss

October 8, 2021

Jan Resseger: Let’s Not Lose Sight of the Urgently Important Debate about Federally Mandated High-Stakes Tests

Blog Post of the Day

Jan Resseger

August 12, 2021

Gadfly on the Wall: The Year Without Standardized Testing

Blog Post of the Day

Steven Singer

May 10, 2021

Janresseger: The Hubris of Billionaire Philanthropy and the Damage Wrought by the Common Core Standards

Blog Post of the Day

Jan Resseger

April 30, 2021

Teacher in a Strange Land: Teachers, Testing and Why We Might Just Chill

Blog Post of the Day

Nancy Flanagan

March 30, 2021

Ed in the Apple: Will Secretary of Education Cardona Grant Standardized Test Waivers to States?

Blog Post of the Day

Peter Goodman

March 18, 2021

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