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Kevin Carey on Washington Journal
Policy Director Kevin Carey appeared on C-SPAN's "Washington Journal" to talk about the education proposals put forth during President Obama's State of the Union address.
Co-founder Andrew Rotherham is featured in CBS's "Where America Stands," a news special on the current state of the nation's schools.
For Release: New Education Sector Report Offers a New Look at High School Accountability
"College- and Career-Ready" focuses on using outcomes data to hold high schools accountable for student success.
Holding Colleges Accountable: Can Success Be Measured?
TIME magazine education reporter Gilbert Cruz sits down with Policy Director Kevin Carey to discuss why parents and public officials should demand more accountability from colleges.
Miller on Federal Student Loan Changes
Education Sector Policy Analyst Ben Miller talks with Inside Higher Ed and The Chronicle of Higher Education about changes to the federal student loan program.
Education Sector - Research and Reports
Featured Research and Reports
A Video Presentation of "College- and Career-Ready"
In this video, Policy Analyst Chad Aldeman explains the limitations of current accountability measures and discusses specific examples of schools whose NCLB performance does not reflect their students' post-high-school performance.
Recent Research and Reports:
College- and Career-Ready
In this Education Sector report, Policy Analyst Chad Aldeman calls for a new approach to high school accountability. He argues that the best way to measure whether students are prepared for college or a career is by looking at what actually happens when students arrive at their intended destination. Also watch our short video primer of the report!
Growing Pains: Scaling Up the Nation's Best Charter Schools
This Education Sector report takes an objective look at how prepared the nation's best charter schools are to meet the challenge of rapid expansion.
Teachers at Work
In this Education Sector report, Senior Policy Analyst Elena Silva highlights promising models of school design and calls for a new approach to addressing the teacher quality challenge in public education.
Moving Targets: What It Now Means to Make Adequate Yearly Progress Under NCLB
This Education Sector Explainer builds on the 2007 report States' Evidence: What It Means to Make 'Adequate Yearly Progress' Under NCLB. It is an up-to-date resource for evaluating each state's annual benchmarks through the 2009-10 school year and how those benchmarks have changed over time.
ES Review: Selections From 2008 and 2009
From measuring 21st century skills to plotting school choice, the third edition of the ES Review brings together, in one setting, some of our best work from 2008 and 2009.
Diplomas and Dropouts
This report from Education Sector's Kevin Carey, along with AEI's Frederick M. Hess, Mark Schneider, and Andrew P. Kelly, spotlights the dramatic variation in graduation rates across 1,300 of the nation's colleges and universities.
Ready to Assemble: Grading State Higher Education Accountability Systems
States need strong higher education systems, now more than ever. In a new Education Sector report, Chad Aldeman and Kevin Carey rate the effectiveness of every state's higher education accountability system in 21 categories, ranging from how well states measure student learning outcomes to how well states link accountability information to funding. Learn how your state measures up.
Food for Thought: Building a High-Quality School Choice Market
In this new Education Sector report, Policy Analyst Erin Dillon looks beyond schools to other markets operating in low-income, urban neighborhoods for strategies to improve the supply of high-quality education options and the informed demand necessary to take advantage of those options.
Are We There Yet? What Policymakers Can Learn From Tennessee's Growth Model
As Congress gears up to reauthorize the No Child Left Behind Act, so-called "growth models" to measure school performance are sure to be a major item of debate. But while growth models can help develop better school accountability systems, there are important issues that state and federal policymakers should be aware of as they consider expanding their use, argues accountability expert Charles Barone in this new Education Sector Technical Report. Value-added expert William L. Sanders responds to this paper.
Beyond the Bubble: Technology and the Future of Student Assessment
In a new Education Sector report, Chief Operating Officer Bill Tucker argues that technology has the potential to drastically improve our current assessment systems and practices, leading to significant improvements in teaching and learning in the nation's classrooms.
Ready to Assemble: A Model State Higher Education Accountability System
Today's colleges and universities are plagued by a host of problems: low graduation rates, high tuition rates, and poor student performance. But higher education has few incentives to address these problems. Thus, policymakers who want to fix the problems of American higher education need to create stronger accountability systems. In this new Education Sector report, Kevin Carey and Chad Aldeman describe the current state of the art in state higher education accountability and provide a set of guidelines for designing a model system.
Measuring Skills for the 21st Century
Leaders in government, business, and higher education are calling for today's students to show a mastery of broader and more sophisticated skills like evaluating and analyzing information and thinking creatively about how to solve real-world problems. But standing in the way of incorporating such skills into teaching and learning are widespread concerns about measurement. In this report, Senior Policy Analyst Elena Silva examines new models of assessment that illustrate that the skills that really matter for the 21st century can be measured accurately and in a common and comparable way.