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School and District Accountability

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The Standard

School Improvement and Accountability

The authors in this issue share what they have learned about what is most likely to move the needle on student learning and how to ensure states and districts are directing resources toward what matters most for improving outcomes

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The Standard - Article

How 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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Policy Update

States Set Sights on Growth of Low-Performing Students

With the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), states can include a student growth indicator as a measure of school quality in their accountability systems. Most of them do. Nine states also saw this as an opportunity and added a separate growth measure for the bottom quartile and quintile of students.

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The Standard - Article

Data for Improvement and Data for Accountability: Considerations for State Boards

Carefully designed accountability systems can spur schools to improve; others can undermine improvement and equity.

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The Standard - Article

Measuring Academic Growth for School Accountability

More states should adopt a growth metric that compares students’ progress toward proficiency, not against other students.

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The Standard - Article

State Takeovers: No Silver Bullet for School District Improvement

On average, takeover fails to improve achievement measures, but how it is done matters a lot.

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Press Release

NASBE 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.

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The Standard - Article

Measuring Academic Growth for School Accountability

More states should adopt a growth metric that compares students’ progress toward proficiency, not against other students.

read more
The Standard - Article

How State Board Leaders Can Build Next-Generation Accountability

Coherence in state policies plus aligned supports to districts pave the way forward.

read more
The Standard - Article

Data for Improvement and Data for Accountability: Considerations for State Boards

Carefully designed accountability systems can spur schools to improve; others can undermine improvement and equity.

read more
The Standard - Article

Making Room for What Matters: How State Boards Can Support Innovation in Accountability

The voices of school leaders who are most actively pushing the school improvement envelope can help shape the accountability conversation.

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The Standard

School Improvement and Accountability

The authors in this issue share what they have learned about what is most likely to move the needle on student learning and how to ensure states and districts are directing resources toward what matters most for improving outcomes

read more
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Measuring School Quality: What Multiple Measures Reveal about Student Success

Join NASBE on January 28 at 3:00 pm ET for a timely conversation on better measuring school quality. Researchers from MIT Blueprint Labs, including Russell Legate-Yang and Talia Gerstle, will share new findings on how student surveys and test scores align and how each relates to long-term student success. Alena Antonowich, New York City Public […]

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How State Boards and Legislatures Can Partner on Assessment and Accountability

(sentence of description of what webinar is!) State leaders join us for a conversation on assessment..

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Measuring Success in Public Charter School Alternative Education Campuses: What Can We Learn from Them?

What can state leaders learn from alternative school campuses that operate as public charter schools? Join us for this webinar discussion.

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