A lot has changed since 2010, when states began adopting Common Core State Standards and aligned assessments. Each year has…
Few states have had as exciting a journey for public education as Delaware. Fueled by multi-million dollar grants, a committed…
The year was 2013. Opposition to the Common Core—and to the new assessments aligned to these more rigorous standards—was running…
Think back to your days as a high school student. Did you take the SAT or ACT test? Did you…
What was it like inside a state that implemented a cascade of new education policies over the past five years?…
The Every Student Succeeds Act gives states the flexibility to decide how to measure student success in high school. This…
“Formative assessment is the way we ensure that the kids are learning. I can stand up there and spout stuff…
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) gives all states the chance to dramatically change the way they approach and think…
Sailors for centuries have used the North Star to gauge their relative location to their ultimate destination. Its remarkable light…
Our formative assessment study, conducted in collaboration with the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation, is a two-part series. Formative Assessment…
One of the biggest changes ESSA brings to education policy is a requirement that states start including a broader range…
As part of our Districts Rising publications, we sat down with new Boston Public Schools Superintendent Tommy Chang to talk…
I stepped into my classroom at Eastern Senior High School, a public school in Washington D.C., for the first time…
When Mike Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute declared an “accountability design competition” on January 5, 2016, with a…
Happy New Year from Education First! We hope you had a restful, joyous and peaceful holiday season. Now that the…
I was a first-time principal when I first read my state’s kindergarten assessment policy. As a former kindergarten teacher, I…
In my second year of teaching, a mentor asked me a seemingly simple question: “How do you know what your…
Our updated primer on Common Core-aligned assessments offers policymakers, staff, education leaders and advocates reusable slides that make the case…
