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Ed Policy
Education policy consists of news, commentary and stories that follow legislation and government action in the educational sphere.
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America Succeeds Reports on Education Pathways for the Future of Work
Tom share’s key highlights and findings from Age of Agility: Education Pathways for the Future of Work, a new report from America Succeeds.
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Navigating the Changing Landscape of Dyslexia
By: Shantell Thaxton Berrett. One in five students has a language-based learning disability, the most common of which is dyslexia. In a rapidly changing time for dyslexia legislation, here's what you need to know.
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A Toolkit For Managing Innovation Under ESSA
By: Julia Freeland-Fisher and Thomas Arnett. This toolkit offers state leaders a set of frameworks and theories to understand how best to manage, encourage and measure innovation in K–12 education.
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EdReform in the Modern Era
American education reform has been driven by some recurring themes such as early learning, standards-based reform, school autonomy, student engagement and new personalized learning. Here is a short history.
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California Schools Getting Global
Guest author Janet Mann describes how educators, business and community members, and policy-makers convened for California’s first Global Education Summit in 2016.
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Why I’m Post Policy and Pro-Innovation
Personalized pathways of learning can be far more powerful than the way we have historically organized schools--we just need to invent the tools to do it well and at scale. This will be the direction of education policy in the coming decades.
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The First 100 Days: An Education Blueprint for A Dynamic Economy
By: Lillian Pace. While there are many unknowns about the days ahead, one thing is certain. A successful economic agenda must include a deep commitment to expanding educational opportunity for all Americans.
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Innovating Large-Scale Assessments: Design Considerations for Education Leaders
By: Dr. Stuart Kahl. Interest in innovative assessment practices is growing, and it is important to capitalize on this momentum with new assessment strategies that emphasize higher order skills while minimizing the burden placed on schools.
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How the President-Elect Can Scale Personalized Learning
By: Lillian Pace. We strongly encourage the incoming Administration to prioritize the following ideas in its education agenda as it considers a strategy for transforming the nation’s K-12 and higher education systems.
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System Connectors and Shapers in Education Transformations
By: Rosie Clayton. With questions around the design and function of intermediaries and system catalysts in U.S. educational change, I met up with five organizations which play both distinctive and overlapping roles within the system to learn more.