Testing the Waters: Insights Into Parent Perspectives on Through-Year Assessments

Statewide assessments have become an indispensable source of information on student, school, and system achievement. Some states, like Delaware, Florida, Nebraska, and Texas, are beginning to explore other ways of administering these tests, such as through-year assessments. Join this conversation with Titilayo Tinubu Ali, Michelle Croft, and Bonnie O’Keefe (Bellwether), who wrote this  recent report […]

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2023 Eddies Awards: Best Implementation

The Eddies—annual, advocate-nominated and voted awards—feature strategic advocacy that is driving impactful policy change. This Eddies category highlights the necessary work to ensure that breakthrough policy or laws lead to sustained impact. Advocates know passing policy is only the beginning of the work to change outcomes and opportunities for students. This category features implementation work on laws […]

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2022 Eddies Awards: Best Collaboration

The Eddies—annual, advocate-nominated and voted awards—feature outstanding policy and advocacy wins from the past year. This Eddies category features coalitions of leaders and organizations who worked together to achieve a significant impact for students and families. Working in coalition can be incredibly powerful—and incredibly challenging.  This category honors the hard work of coalitions that organized artfully to respond to […]

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2022 Eddies Awards: Game Changer Campaign of the Year

The Eddies—annual, advocate-nominated and voted awards—feature outstanding policy and advocacy wins from the past year. This Eddies category recognizes local, state, or national advocacy campaigns that tackled a big problem and achieved a new, game-changing policy or protected an existing critical policy. Sometimes a policy window opens quickly, and advocates move fast; sometimes, the window opens after years of sustained […]

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Aligning Education & the Workforce

This session will explore ways to better align systems to link together K-12, higher education, and career outcomes and spur innovation, improvement, and quality across education and career-oriented institutions. Anthony Carnevale (Georgetown Center on Education & the Workforce) will discuss what data are needed to analyze education production, to identify labor market needs, and how to better match education and workforce outcomes. Paul […]

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