Accountability and Integrity
By Jennifer Poon We promise to do our best. Before every volleyball match, I coached my players to set both individual and team goals. Some players set goals relevant to their specific skills and roles...
View ArticleAccountability for Student Success
By Judy Seltz Current debate over the Common Core State Standards, the PARCC and Smarter Balanced assessments, educator evaluation, and other education reform efforts has created significant noise. At...
View ArticleASCD Educators Envision A Better Accountability Approach
By David Griffith and Katie Freeman “Accountability can mean a lot of things to a lot of different people,” said ASCD President Nancy Gibson during the face-to-face session of the ASCD Forum on...
View ArticleHouse Passes NCLB replacement Bill, But More Work to be Done
Perhaps the best that can be said about H.R.5, the Student Success Act, is that it passed the House yesterday. The bill had been in limbo after being abruptly pulled from the floor of the House in...
View ArticleYour Advocacy Need-to-Knows
By Megan Wolfe President Teddy Roosevelt once said, “This country will not be a permanently good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a reasonably good place for all of us to live in”...
View ArticleFinding Your Voice at LILA
By Matthew Mingle Have you ever found yourself thinking, “If only members of Congress really knew what it was like in classrooms today . . .” while reading the latest news about education policy? I...
View ArticleASCD Statement on 2016 State of the Union Address
ASCD has released the following statement from Sr. Director of Government Relations David Griffith in response to tonight’s State of the Union address by President Barack Obama: In tonight’s State of...
View ArticleTitle IV: A Win for Student Health
By Clayton Ellis The challenges faced in providing Colorado students with effective health and physical education instruction go back many years. But with the opportunities offered to support a...
View ArticleWhy Title IV, Part A, and the Student Success Factor of ESSA Are Critical for...
By James Daugherty As music educators celebrate the passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), we look forward to increased music education opportunities for our nation’s students. There is also...
View ArticleEducation Policy Post Election
Like so many in Washington and, indeed, around the country, I’ve been processing both the stunning election results from last week and, more urgently, what a Trump administration will mean for...
View ArticleTop Resources for Insight into the DeVos Confirmation Hearing
On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) held a confirmation hearing for Secretary of Education nominee Betsy DeVos. Among other topics, DeVos was asked a...
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