Focus Area:
Accountability, Assessment, and Oversight

Prepared for the Washington State Academic Achievement and Accountability Commission in 2002, this report attempts to take a fresh look at the data from the Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL) in order to provide practical information for both educators and policymakers.

This report marks the third year of CRPE’s exploration into the way fast-improving schools in Washington State work, with a focus on high schools.

This study examines the experiences of fifteen elementary schools in Washington State demonstrating relatively slow improvement on the reading and math sections of the WASL.

This paper is the result of a review of efforts across the country, and specifically in five states, to introduce performance accountability into education reform strategies.

This report documents Washington State’s attempts to ensure students meet new, higher standards for student learning. It is part of a trio of reports on this topic.

This report works at identifying steps Washington state schools can take to improve new state assessment scores and meet higher state standards.

This report sketches a strong and unique accountability system for Washington State, one that is driven by measurements of student performance and incentives to improve, creates clear lines of responsibility, gives every school a chance to perform and improve, employs powerful incentives, and doesn’t stop until every child is in a good school.