Month: August 2023

Should California’s New Accountability Model Set the Bar for Other States? – by Morgan S. Polikoff

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As states grapple with designing new accountability systems under the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (see “How Should States Design Their Accountability Systems?” forum, Winter 2017), California has released a pilot version of its long-awaited school and district performance dashboard under the federal Every Student Succeeds Act. The dashboard takes a dramatical...

The Education Exchange: Do Students Learn More with Better Math Textbooks? – by Education Next

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Some studies have found that schools can get substantial gains in achievement by changing textbooks. But a new analysis by the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard finds little evidence of differences in achievement gains for schools using different math textbooks. Paul E. Peterson talks with Thomas Kane, of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, about the new stu...

Innovation in the Heartland

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/* custom css */ .tdi_2_461{ min-height: 0; } /* custom css */ .tdi_4_d9f{ vertical-align: baseline; } Purdue Polytechnic High School is among the Indianapolis charter schools that saw gains in college readiness through the pandemic. Students at the Englewood campus…

To Improve Rural Schools, Focus on their Strengths – by Michael Q. McShane

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A consistent criticism of education reform is that much of the agenda has been based on what some call a “deficit mindset.” That is, reformers saw individuals, institutions, and communities as broken and in need of fixing (or worse, saving), not as individuals, institutions, and communities with culture, history, and potential that could be cultivated and built upon. As educat...

Getting Back to Basics

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