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In American education, the scars of the “accountability wars” still run deep. More than two decades after the federal No Child Left Behind Act established punitive, high-profile accountability requirements for America’s K–12 schools, states and districts remain wary of debates over testing, student performance, and school improvement. This understandable backlash has pushed many states toward the other extreme: local control without meaningful oversight, where responsibility has too often dissolved into complacency.
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School districts are making consequential AI decisions largely on their own—purchasing tools, training teachers, setting policies for student use, and trying to determine what responsible and effective adoption looks like.
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New AI tools are entering the ed tech market every day. But how are they actually playing out in schools and classrooms?
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All Together Now: Getting Students with Disabilities What They Need During the Pandemic
During the 2020–21 school year, we learned through a series of interviews that most teachers missed out on the power of collaborative interactions between general and special educators.
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How Has the Pandemic Affected Students’ Social-Emotional Well-Being? A Review of the Evidence to Date
This report is part of a series that aims to provide a definitive account of the best available evidence on how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected America’s students.
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New England Profiles of Innovation | Nokomis Regional High School
This profile of Nokomis Regional High School in Newport, Maine details the school’s practices that have made it successful, how they have adapted in the fact of the pandemic, and how other school communities can begin conversations about creating flexible pathways for students to design components of their own high school experience.
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How Has the Pandemic Affected Students with Disabilities? A Review of the Evidence to Date
This report is part of a series that aims to provide a definitive account of the best available evidence on how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected America’s students.