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Demonstrating Skills of Value
State education leaders are focused on ensuring students graduate ready for life after high school—but how do students know they’re building valuable, transferable skills, and how will employers and colleges recognize them?Civic-Ready Students
More and better civics will inspire students to become better citizens who will be equipped to participate, preserve, and defend America’s democracy and engage in reasoned, respectful discourse.Telltale Signs of Rigor and Career Readiness in High School
State boards can take a lesson from schools that already dish up rigorous assignments in college- and career-ready courses alike and ensure more schools do it.Merging High School and College: The Early College High School Model
Six elements in statewide law and policy pave the way for effective programs that help more students thrive in college courses while they are still in high school.Six Questions to Advance Media Literacy and Digital Citizenship
Adolescents consume a lot of screen media, which exposes them to potentially harmful media messages that impacts their physical, mental, and social well-being. Read how some states are equipping students with skills to navigate a complex media landscape.A New Architecture for High School Learning
State leaders should retire the Carnegie unit and open the door for high school designs that ensure learning is engaging, relevant, experiential, and competency based.NASBE Report Highlights Gap in AI Guidance for Early Childhood Education
Guiding how young learners understand and encounter AI goes beyond debates over screen time and technology use.
read moreSetting Ed Tech and AI Policy for Young Children
Thirty-seven states have AI guidance for schools, but kindergarten rarely gets attention, and pre-K is left out altogether.
read moreNew Report Charts a Path for States to Transform the High School Experience
Drawing on two years of direct engagement with five state boards, NASBE report identifies the policy conditions that make lasting high school transformation possible.
read moreStates’ Role in Transforming High School: Evidence, Trends, and the Path Forward
High school sits at the intersection of everything states want for their young people, yet many young people say high school is not working for them. State leaders have numerous levers to incentivize high school transformation.
read moreNASBE Standard Examines School Improvement and State Accountability
Authors share what it takes to move the needle on student learning and direct resources toward what matters most.
read moreTime to Rethink the Test Pile
State and district assessment systems have grown larger and more complex over the last decade, yet districts that test the most do not see better results.
read moreHow Tennessee Is Holding Its Lowest-Performing Schools Accountable
Public conversation, key metrics, and a clear focus on students strengthen Tennessee's work to turnaround low-performing schools.
read moreMeasuring Academic Growth for School Accountability
More states should adopt a growth metric that compares students’ progress toward proficiency, not against other students.
read moreHow State Board Leaders Can Build Next-Generation Accountability
Coherence in state policies plus aligned supports to districts pave the way forward.
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