Standards & Accountability
Read more about the skills students are expected to acquire and policies designed to hold schools accountable for learning
What’s the Purpose of Standards in Education? An Explainer
What are standards? Why are they important? What's the Common Core? Do standards improve student achievement? Our explainer has the answers.
Standards & Accountability GreatSchools' Ratings Revamp Credits Schools for Boosting Academic GrowthThe schools rating website gives heavier weight to schools that are making strong academic growth and supporting historically disadvantaged students.Standards & Accountability DeVos Touts Tool Intended to Show School-by-School Spending NationwideA new web feature highlighted by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos aims to display data collected from state and local report cards, but it remains a work in progress.
Standards & Accountability Feds Seek New Data About Pandemic's Effects on School Funding, AccountabilityThe Education Department's request for a new data collection focuses on waivers from the Every Student Succeeds Act and how schools are using federal coronavirus relief.
Standards & Accountability Fact Check: Trump Administration Didn't 'Get Rid' of Common CoreU.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos implied at the Conservative Political Action Conference that President Donald Trump has fulfilled a pledge to "get rid of" the Common Core State Standards. That's not true.Standards & Accountability People Keep on Saying They're Killing the Common Core. How Dead Is It?Florida's governor declares a standards overhaul would "remove all vestiges" of the common core. But it remains unclear how much is really changing under the Florida Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking.
Standards & Accountability School Quality a Critical Family Issue for MilitaryConcerns about local school systems can pose recruitment and retention hurdles for the armed services as they seek to meet the needs of military families.
Standards & Accountability In National Ranking of School Systems, a New State Is On TopThe annual Quality Counts report card ranks states based on dozens of factors that affect the quality of state school systems, including school finance, academic achievement, and socioeconomic indicators.
Standards & Accountability Ethnic Studies Curriculum Deemed 'Anti-Jewish'California's proposed curriculum guide in ethnic studies is being sent back for substantial revision after a pileup of criticism that it's anti-Semitic and freighted with jargon and political correctness.
Standards & Accountability Mismatch Seen Between New Science Tests and State RequirementsTeachers in some states worry students may face questions on topics they haven't studied on new science tests rolling out across the country.Standards & Accountability News in Brief Changes to Social Study Standards In Michigan Reversed After OutcryBack is Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. Back is Roe v. Wade. Back is climate change. and the word "democratic." A new proposal incorporating those revisions was presented to the Michigan board of education last week.
Standards & Accountability States Fall Short on School Data Transparency, Advocacy Group SaysAfter reviewing states’ school report cards, the Data Quality Campaign says dozens of states are failing to offer a clear window into the data they’re required to collect under ESSA.
Standards & Accountability A Heavy Lift to Make School Data Transparent—And Easy to UseStates and districts are scrambling to meet the Every Student Succeeds Act’s demand for broad and readily searchable information about schools.Standards & Accountability The Ball Is in Betsy DeVos' Court as States Seek to Revise ESSA PlansWill the education department let a state go in an entirely new direction, as long as what it is proposing to do is still kosher under the law?
Standards & Accountability Opinion Want to Scrap the 'Factory Model' Classroom? Mind These Common PitfallsTraditional and innovative schools suffer from opposing problems, writes David Nurenberg. Here's how they can meet in the middle.
Standards & Accountability Science Curriculum Reviews Are Out, and Results Aren't GreatOf the six series reviewed for their quality and how well they aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards, EdReports gave just one top marks.
