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ESSA Is a Big Piece of the STEM Equity Puzzle

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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Whatever Happened to All Those New and Better State Tests?

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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ESSA Is a Big Piece of the STEM Equity Puzzle

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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What ESSA Plans Are Saying About Collaboration

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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A New Resource for Advocates for High-Quality Assessments

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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