2025 Eddies Awards: Peter Tang Most Actionable Tools & Research

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The Eddies—annual, advocate-nominated and voted awards—feature strategic advocacy that is driving impactful policy change. This Eddies category spotlights resources or tools that shed new light on pressing and widespread problems or solutions and that state and local advocates across the Network leveraged to make a compelling case for policy change and achieve breakthroughs. See a complete list of 2025 […]

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2025 Eddies Awards: Best Defense

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The Eddies—annual, advocate-nominated and voted awards—feature strategic advocacy that is driving impactful policy change. Best Defense highlights campaigns that strategically defended important policy at significant risk and overcame significant odds using innovative tactics; sometimes, the most significant wins are actually holding the line. Nominees in this category provide models for how to deploy sharp strategies to […]

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Math Multipliers Series: The State of Math Pathways

Audience: Staff at PIE Network member organizations A growing number of states are launching initiatives to make high school and postsecondary mathematics more relevant to today’s careers and civic demands, and recognizing that the traditional pathway to calculus—while valuable—does not serve all students effectively. To learn more about critical policy actions, current progress across states, […]

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 Measuring What Matters: Advancing College and Career Readiness Across States

How are states measuring whether students are truly ready for life after high school—and do those measures actually predict long-term success? Join this deep dive with Anne Hyslop (All4Ed), Kristin Blagg (Urban Institute), Kelsey Bakken (Advance Illinois), and Kevin Duff (Ohio Excels) to learn about a 50-state scan of CCR indicators in accountability systems, the […]

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What Comes Next: Preparing for Federal Funding Flexibility

How should state and local advocates prepare to influence spending decisions if states are given more flexibility to spend federal funds? What is clearly required by law and what flexibilities do states already have that advocates can help states leverage effectively? In this discussion, Anne Hyslop (All4Ed), Rebecca Sibilia (EdFund), Jennifer O’Neal Schiess (Bellwether), and Bonnie O’Keefe (Bellwether) will share an overview of […]

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Reassessing ESSA Implementation: An Equity Analysis of School Accountability Systems

State assessment and accountability systems are designed to identify and support the students and schools that most need it. EdTrust’s new report reviewed each state’s accountability system to identify trends in how states are equitably implementing key federal provisions from the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) by centering student group performance and connecting the school […]

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2024 Eddies Awards: Most Actionable Tools & Research

The Eddies—annual, advocate-nominated and voted awards—feature strategic advocacy that is driving impactful policy change. This Eddies category spotlights resources or tools that shed new light on pressing and widespread problems or solutions and that state and local advocates across the Network leveraged to make a compelling case for policy change and achieve breakthroughs. See a complete list of 2024 […]

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