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Degrees of Value: Evaluating the Return on the College Investment
Also from ES |
Andrew Gillen, Jeff Selingo, and Mandy Zatynski
 | May 9, 2013

What will a student get in return for investing in college, perhaps while taking on significant debt? Often it’s not that students and families question the value of college per se, just the value of attending certain colleges.

Accountability, College Costs, Graduation Rates, Measuring Student Learning, Student Loans and Financial Aid, Higher Education
A Briefing for Fairfax’s New Schools Chief
Commentary |
Kristen Amundson
 | April 19, 2013

Kris Amundson gives three tips to help the new superintendent of Fairfax County Public Schools have an easy transition. 

Accountability and School Improvement, K-12 Education, Data-Driven Improvement
The Four Lessons I Learned by Taking a MOOC
Commentary |
Andrew Gillen
 | April 4, 2013
Accountability, Accreditation, Productivity, Technology, and Innovation, Higher Education
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The Evergreen Effect: Washington’s Poor Evaluation System Revealed
Charts You Can Trust |
Chad Aldeman
 | March 25, 2013

The Evergreen Effect digs into Washington State data and highlights the failures of rudimentary teacher evaluation systems, and for Washington in particular, just how bad they really were.

Accountability and School Improvement, K-12 Education, Data-Driven Improvement, Teacher Quality
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The Right Mix: How One Los Angeles School is Blending a Curriculum for Personalized Learning
Also from ES |
Susan Headden
 | February 6, 2013

Susan Headden profiles the Alliance Tennenbaum Family Technology High School, a blended learning pioneer that is illustrating both the strengths and challenges of implementing such a radical new way of educating students.

K-12 Education, Expanded Learning and School Time, Virtual Learning

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State U Online
Reports & Briefs |
Rachel Fishman
 | April 23, 2013
Accountability, Accreditation, Productivity, Technology, and Innovation, Higher Education
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Reclaiming Community
Also from ES |
Peter W. Cookson Jr.
 | April 17, 2013
Accountability and School Improvement, K-12 Education, Data-Driven Improvement, Teacher Quality
Selling Students Short: Declining Teaching Loads at Colleges and Universities
Reports & Briefs |
Andrew Gillen
 | March 20, 2013
Accountability, College Costs, Productivity, Technology, and Innovation, Student Loans and Financial Aid, Higher Education
The Trouble With Starr’s Testing Moratorium
Commentary |
Kristen Amundson
 | February 22, 2013
Accountability and School Improvement, K-12 Education, ESEA / No Child Left Behind, Testing and Assessment
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo presents his 2013-14 Executive Budget address.
Higher Standards are Crucial to Students' Success
Commentary |
Peter W. Cookson Jr.
 | February 17, 2013
Accountability and School Improvement, K-12 Education, Data-Driven Improvement, ESEA / No Child Left Behind, Testing and Assessment
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State U Online
Reports & Briefs |
Rachel Fishman
 | April 23, 2013
Accountability, Accreditation, Productivity, Technology, and Innovation, Higher Education
Selling Students Short: Declining Teaching Loads at Colleges and Universities
Reports & Briefs |
Andrew Gillen
 | March 20, 2013
Accountability, College Costs, Productivity, Technology, and Innovation, Student Loans and Financial Aid, Higher Education
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Cracking the Credit Hour
Reports & Briefs |
Amy Laitinen
 | September 5, 2012
Accreditation, College Costs, Graduation Rates, Measuring Student Learning, Productivity, Technology, and Innovation, Higher Education
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Some Assembly Required: Building a Better Accountability System for California
Reports & Briefs |
Kevin Carey
 | July 26, 2012
Accountability and School Improvement, K-12 Education, College Readiness, Data-Driven Improvement, ESEA / No Child Left Behind
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Trending Toward Reform: Teachers Speak on Unions and the Future of the Profession
Reports & Briefs |
Sarah Rosenberg and Elena Silva
 | July 10, 2012
K-12 Education, Teacher Quality, Teachers Unions
Understanding Teachers Contracts
Explainers |
Andrew J. Rotherham
 | March 2, 2010
Teachers Unions
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The 411 on Cohort Default Rates
Explainers |
Ben Miller
 | February 9, 2010
For-Profit Higher Education, Student Loans and Financial Aid
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Moving Targets: What It Now Means to Make Adequate Yearly Progress Under NCLB
Explainers |
Erin Dillon
 | September 21, 2009
Accountability and School Improvement, ESEA / No Child Left Behind
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Understanding NAEP: Inside the Nation's Education Report Card
Explainers |
Margery Yeager
 | October 23, 2007
ESEA / No Child Left Behind, Testing and Assessment
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States' Evidence: What It Means to Make 'Adequate Yearly Progress' Under NCLB
Explainers |
Andrew J. Rotherham and Erin Dillon
 | July 23, 2007
ESEA / No Child Left Behind
Chart From "High Standards Help Struggling Students: New Evidence"
High Standards Help Struggling Students: New Evidence
Charts You Can Trust |
Constance Clark and Peter W. Cookson Jr.
 | November 15, 2012
Accountability and School Improvement, K-12 Education, ESEA / No Child Left Behind, Testing and Assessment
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Moving On Up: How Tuition Tax Breaks Increasingly Favor the Upper-Middle Class
Charts You Can Trust |
Stephen Burd
 | April 19, 2012
College Costs, Student Loans and Financial Aid, Higher Education
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Degreeless in Debt: What Happens to Borrowers Who Drop Out
Charts You Can Trust |
Mary Nguyen
 | February 23, 2012
College Costs, For-Profit Higher Education, Graduation Rates, Student Loans and Financial Aid, Higher Education
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Data That Matters: Giving High Schools Useful Feedback on Grads' Outcomes
Charts You Can Trust |
Anne Hyslop
 | November 8, 2011
College Readiness, Data-Driven Improvement
Map from "Debt to Degree"
Debt to Degree: A New Way of Measuring College Success
Charts You Can Trust |
Kevin Carey and Erin Dillon
 | August 3, 2011
College Costs, For-Profit Higher Education, Graduation Rates, Measuring Student Learning, Student Loans and Financial Aid, Higher Education
The Trouble With Starr’s Testing Moratorium
Commentary |
Kristen Amundson
 | February 22, 2013
Accountability and School Improvement, K-12 Education, ESEA / No Child Left Behind, Testing and Assessment
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo presents his 2013-14 Executive Budget address.
Higher Standards are Crucial to Students' Success
Commentary |
Peter W. Cookson Jr.
 | February 17, 2013
Accountability and School Improvement, K-12 Education, Data-Driven Improvement, ESEA / No Child Left Behind, Testing and Assessment
A Smarter Way to Grade State’s High Schools
Commentary |
John Chubb
 | November 14, 2012
Accountability and School Improvement, K-12 Education, College Readiness, Testing and Assessment
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New Education Standards Won't Close Achievement Gap
Commentary |
Kristen Amundson
 | August 25, 2012
Accountability and School Improvement, K-12 Education, Data-Driven Improvement, ESEA / No Child Left Behind
Can a Charter School Proposal Get a Fair Shake in Fairfax?
Commentary |
Kristen Amundson
 | July 13, 2012
K-12 Education, Charter Schools and Choice
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Reclaiming Community
Also from ES |
Peter W. Cookson Jr.
 | April 17, 2013
Accountability and School Improvement, K-12 Education, Data-Driven Improvement, Teacher Quality
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Calling for Success: Online Retention Rates Get Boost From Personal Outreach
Also from ES |
Mandy Zatynski
 | January 16, 2013
Accreditation, Graduation Rates, Measuring Student Learning, Productivity, Technology, and Innovation, Higher Education
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Let History Not Repeat Itself: Overcoming Obstacles to the Common Core’s Success
Also from ES |
John Chubb
 | December 19, 2012
Accountability and School Improvement, K-12 Education, College Readiness, ESEA / No Child Left Behind, Testing and Assessment, Teacher Quality
The Best Teachers in the World: Why We Don't Have Them and How We Could Cover
The Best Teachers in the World: Why We Don't Have Them and How We Could
Also from ES |
John Chubb
 | November 9, 2012
K-12 Education, Data-Driven Improvement, Teacher Quality
Students at the Walton 21st Century Rural Life Center study plants.
A Town Turned Classroom: How a Focus on Farming Saved a Rural Kansas School
Also from ES |
Susan Headden
 | October 11, 2012
K-12 Education, Charter Schools and Choice, Data-Driven Improvement, Education Finance