Education assessment can play a crucial role in identifying these learning and related challenges, allowing policy leaders to direct resources to where the needs are the greatest. It will be incredibly challenging, however, to collect, interpret, and use high-quality state standardized test data this school year. This brief recognizes this conundrum and offers recommendations for state leaders regarding assessment in 2020-2021.
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The Future of Smart: Episode 28
Dr. Temple Lovelace, executive director of Assessment for Good, and Dr. Susan Lyons, co-founder and executive director of Women in Measurement, join The Future of Smart podcast to talk about thinking differently about measurement and systems of learning and education.
Afterschool and Summer Workforce Solutions Database
New Data on Racial Justice Grants Should Alarm—and Motivate—Education Philanthropy
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THIS IS NOT A TEST, THIS IS AN EMERGENCY: Special Considerations for Assessing and Advancing Equity in School-Year 2020-21
Spotlight: Learning Forerunners Across America
The Learning Forerunners Across America Spotlight with Remake Learning, Remake Learning Days, and The Grable Foundation highlights system-level best practices that foster innovation at scale in 16 regions across the United States.
Election 2020: Education Equity on the Ballot
To help voters learn where candidates in key statewide political races in the South and the Presidential race stand on education equity, the Southern Education Foundation (SEF) has produced Election 2020: Education Equity on the Ballot.
Education Resource Equity Toolkit
Based on nationwide polling data, The Alliance for Resource Equity, a partnership between The Education Trust and Education Resource Strategies, has released tools and resources to help education leaders and advocates in your community build common understandings of the issues and how to talk about them.
Early Lessons from Schools and Out-of-School Time Programs Implementing Social and Emotional Learning
The most comprehensive study of social and emotional learning implementation to date offers early lessons for schools and out-of-school-time programs on how to carry out high-quality social and emotional learning instruction.
2020 Show Me the Data
State report cards should provide parents and the public with meaningful information about students and schools. But when this resource is missing data, hard to find, or difficult to understand, families and communities are left in the dark.
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