
The Every Student Succeeds Act significantly improves upon No Child Left Behind by, among other things, giving more power back to states and local schools. We’re working to help policymakers and educators take advantage of the law’s new flexibility, especially when it comes to creating smarter school accountability systems, prioritizing the needs of high-achieving low-income students, and encouraging the adoption of content-rich curricula.
Resources:
- Rating the Ratings: An Analysis of the 51 ESSA Accountability Plans
- Leveraging ESSA to Support Quality-School Growth
- Great ideas from our ESSA Accountability Design Competition
- What ESSA means for high-achieving students
- ESSA and a content-rich education
- ESSA and parental choice


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Preparing young people for success at work is about knowledge and relationships
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The GOP’s dubious “protect the children” platform for 2024
Dale Chu 2.16.2023
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The policies promoting school shootings
Max Eden 2.16.2023
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The sad state of the teaching profession
Nathaniel Grossman 2.16.2023
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#857: The states leading the way in literacy, with Kymyona Burk and Tom Greene
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Soft-on-consequences discipline is terrible for teachers
Daniel Buck 2.9.2023
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An examination of cream-skimming and pushout data among voucher students
Amber M. Northern, Ph.D. 2.9.2023
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Re-evaluating the cost of test-based retention policies
Jeff Murray 2.9.2023
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Racial and ethnic gaps in advanced STEM achievement: 3 takeaways from recent research
Brandon L. Wright 2.7.2023
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