By James Brown, Anand Vaishnav & Jacob Waters Earlier this fall, President Donald Trump called on the U.S. Department of Education to direct at least $200 million in competitive grant funding toward expanding science, technology, engineering, math, and computer science education. Though the...
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In 2010, 46 states joined together in two different consortia (PARCC and Smarter Balanced) to create higher-quality, next-generation state summative assessments. Though these new tests have been consistently highly rated, today only 20 states are participating in either consortia. So what has happened to...
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This op-ed was originally published in Education Week. You can view the original here. Earlier this fall, President Donald Trump called on the U.S. Department of Education to direct at least $200 million in competitive grant funding toward expanding science,...
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After the Common Core State Standards were developed and released in 2010, 45 states quickly adopted them, citing their rigor, concision and focus on the skills that students need in the 21st century. But over the past several years—largely in...
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We can’t give every child access to a great education without highly effective educators. But improving educator quality isn’t easy—it requires coordinated, aggressive change across multiple institutions, including schools, districts, states and even universities. It’s clear that no single entity...
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Chronic absenteeism and college-and-career readiness, on the other hand, are a lot easier to calcuate, even though states are defining and measuring them in all sorts of different ways. “States are choosing measures that they have the ability to measure...
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Education First, with the support of Overdeck Family Foundation, is proud to release Making the Most of ESSA: Opportunities to Advance STEM Education. The publication recommends concrete practices to help ensure that four of the most common science, technology, engineering...
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High-quality STEM education is necessary to grow our economy, meet workforce needs and inspire young minds; ESSA provides an opportunity for states to drive their STEM education forward. The report is grounded in our analysis of STEM in all 17...
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We asked for innovation. We asked teachers for fresh ideas for implementing social-emotional learning (SEL) in their classrooms. We asked districts to envision new ways for schools to work together, and to consider how to support SEL practices for teachers,...
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By design, the Common Core standards and other college- and career-ready expectations states have established recently were designed to have a ripple effect throughout the education system. A clearer focus on the writing, problem solving and critical thinking that are...
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