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“There is a Bigger Story Going on Here”: How are States Using Broader Measures of Student Success to Address Education Disparities?
Innovations in Assessment: A Progress Report on Five Ways to Reimagine Assessment for the Field
How important are standard assessments? It depends on who you ask. Teachers generally agree that testing is important—but also that traditional bubble-sheet exams can feel more like an interruption than a key component of inquiry-based teaching and learning. Families want...
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Innovating Assessments with Equity in Mind: A Tale of Five Teams
What do Spotify, Fitbit and Venmo share in common? They were created via a human-centered design¹. Soon to join that list: student assessments; that is, student assessments crafted via an equitable human-centered design. In our previous blog, “Designing for Equity:...
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Designing for Equity: Innovative Assessments in a Post-COVID World
Imagine you are about to end your senior year, but instead of sharpening your number two pencil and pulling out a scantron for a bubble test, you are putting the final touches on your portfolio of work showcasing your project,...
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Creating a Student-Centered Academic Model in a Virtual Setting
This blog is part of a series detailing best practices and key considerations for setting up a high-quality virtual academy, based on research conducted by Education First. This research included a wide-range of sources, including expert interviews from implementers on...
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Culturally Centered Education: A Primer
Efforts to make student experiences more reflective of diverse racial, ethnic and linguistic groups have been around for decades. However, our nation’s ongoing reckoning with racial injustice has created a sense of urgency to ensure learning environments provide grade-level and...
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