This is the second blog in a four-part series originally published on eduwonk.com. Though rural K-12 education in most places is performing reasonably well on traditional academic instruction, schools need to give young people better...
States, along with legislatures, governors, advocacy groups, and citizens, are urging state education agencies to drive changes in K-12 education. The restructuring of work on various fronts, such as supporting struggling schools, raising standards, addressing labor market weaknesses, and strengthening educational connections, is necessary to meet these demands. Importantly, these efforts must be undertaken amidst constrained resources. The focus of our work is to explore how SEAs can effectively respond to the increasing demands they face.
Key questions guiding this exploration include:
What capacities need to be developed for states to act on reform agendas?
How can state agencies balance their compliance responsibilities with the demand for services and public oversight of K-12?
What actions can state legislatures, governors, advocacy groups, and other stakeholders take to support the work of SEAs?
This is the second blog in a four-part series originally published on eduwonk.com. Though rural K-12 education in most places is performing reasonably well on traditional academic instruction, schools need to give young people better...
This is the first blog in a four-part series originally published on eduwonk.com. Place-based education is vitally important for rural (as for urban) areas, but it can’t be pursued to the point of denying rural...
The Council of Chief State Schools Officers is meeting this week to discuss rural education. While worries about America’s public education system often focus on large cities, rural districts educate millions of American students, and...
This blog was originally published in the Huffington Post. Last month, a highly polarized debate waylaid a House vote on the federal government’s most important education legislation: the LBJ-era Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)....
In this paper, two different “camps” on school reform find common ground on how to improve educational accountability.
Lamar Alexander, the new head of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, has set off the long-delayed reauthorization process for ESEA. Testing is taking center stage in the debate. There is no shortage...
I’m a sucker for a good Year in Review. When else do we push ourselves to assess impact and think about what’s coming next? Here’s what we at CRPE are pondering as we contemplate the...
One theme that emerged in our discussions on the next generation of school accountability is that tensions inherently arise when developing accountability systems that need to serve multiple interests and stakeholders. As the sole authorizer...
When it comes to school accountability, different people see the same events differently. It’s all in the eye of the beholder. When a school district closes a school with persistently low student outcomes, is it...
Today, we wrap up our blog series on accountability prompted by a paper and statement of principles released last week. Thanks to guest bloggers and co-signers James Merriman, Joanne Weiss, Sandy Kress, and Jane Hannaway...
