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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.Reshaping Assessment and Accountability in 2021 and Beyond
Data about system performance will continue to lie at the heart of school improvement.Colorado’s Network for Local Accountability
A network of rural peers help districts design meaningful, timely, community-connected accountability.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.Building on State ESSA Plans
After submitting their plans for implementing the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) in 2017, states face challenges in ensuring the implementation of their plans keep faith with the spirit of ESSA.ESSA’s Fifth Indicator: A NASBE Policy Update Series
States have incorporated a variety of “fifth indicators” in their ESSA plans, including: career and technical education, school climate and student discipline, social and emotional learning, chronic absenteeism, and access to high-level course work. This policy update series explores the pros and cons of each and offers key considerations for state boards that are refining their plans for September submission.Measuring 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.
read moreData 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 moreMaking 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.
read moreSchool Improvement and Accountability
Designing state accountability systems and tracking their implementation are among the most consequential and complicated tasks for state education leaders. Likewise, school improvement processes, the purview of school and district leaders, demand much of those who design, implement, and monitor them. However, if state accountability and local improvement are working at cross purposes, neither is […]
read moreMeasuring 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 […]
read moreHow 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..
read moreMeasuring 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.
read moreUsing School Accountability Systems to Support School Improvement
School accountability systems are often criticized for being disconnected from or even hindering the important work of improving schools. What is the role of accountability to promote better outcomes for students, and how do we design and implement systems that are more likely to deliver on that promise? In this second session of our Assessment and Accountability […]
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