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Lessons for Sustainable Policy Change
New book offers strategies relevant to today’s political landscape.
Topics: Education Policy
Personalizing Learning for Students with Disabilities by Increasing Access to College in High School Courses
A joint report considers issues Colorado must address to improve concurrent enrollment access and success for students with disabilities.
Advancing Education Innovation Through Place-Based Strategies
Place-based strategies lead to greater engagement of stakeholders and greater ownership of the work.
Out of the Box
Out of the Box provides an action plan for rethinking teaching and learning in a way that better prepares today’s...
Transforming for Tomorrow: A State Policymaker’s Guide for Supporting Student-Centered Education Systems
This guide is designed to help a range of state policymakers identify initial steps to support schools and districts wanting...
Topics: Assessment and Accountability, Education Policy, Vision and Culture
Connecting the Dots: Linking Student-Centered Learning and College and Career Pathways
How student-centered learning and college and career pathways best prepare learners to create a more hopeful future
Topics: Education Policy
Six Areas Where Policy Is Advancing Student-Centered Learning
Watch a conversation about states passing student-centered education policies from the six areas of interest.
State Policies to Support Student-Centered Learning
KnowledgeWorks and ECS teamed up for a 50-state student-centered policy scan. Read the joint brief.
Topics: Education Policy
Five Recommendations for State Leaders Implementing Personalized, Competency-Based Learning
A report gives recommendations for state leaders implementing personalized, competency-based learning based off groundbreaking research.
Capturing and Communicating Learning Requires More Than Time-Based Measures
Learn how a mastery-based transcript meets the needs of future-focused teaching and learning and how we can implement it.
2022 Legislative Session Recap
As the legislative sessions end, we take a look at education policies supporting personalized, competency-based learning across the nation, using...
Topics: Education Policy
Building Toward ESEA Reauthorization
Now is the time for change. Here is a learning agenda for federal assessment and accountability reform.
Accelerating Assessment and Accountability Innovation
Assessment and accountability recommendations for states leading the future of student-centered school quality systems
2022 Legislation to Keep Your Eyes On
We’ve identified over 200 bills across 40 states that would advance priorities in support of personalized, competency-based learning. Find out...
Topics: Education Policy
States Report on Advancing Student-Centered Learning at SXSW EDU
Two SXSWedu sessions hosted district and state leaders sharing their efforts in pursuit of systemic change.
Topics: Education Policy
Federal Action to Support Competitive Grants for State Assessments
The Fiscal Year 2022 Appropriations bill which Congress passed includes funding for the Competitive Grants for State Assessments program.
Leading for and through Change
Three CCSSO leaders share strategies from their states in support of personalized, competency-based learning. And none are alike.
Overcoming Differences in Federal Accountability and Assessment Reform
KnowledgeWorks is thinking deeply and critically about a set of policy solutions that will help our country create a bridge...
Topics: Education Policy
The Fast Track to COVID Recovery Is Not Through Tracking
How state and local policymakers can dismantle tracking and build more student-centered, equitable education systems
Students Want Meaningful, Personalized Learning – and Pennsylvania Educators Do, Too
How listening to students – and acting on what they hear – is shaping teaching and learning in Pennsylvania
Measuring Forward: Emerging Trends in K-12 Assessment Innovation
A report on insights and innovations emerging in K-12 assessment systems.
Strengthening Systems: How States Are Rethinking Human Capital Systems and Technology Infrastructure in the COVID-19 Era
How 12 states are rethinking systems and infrastructures for supporting individual learning of every student.
Supporting Students in Learning: How States are Rethinking Policies to Support Students in the COVID-19 Era
How states are rethinking policies to support students in the COVID-19 era
Topics: Education Policy
Assessments of and for Learning: How States Are Rethinking Accountability and Assessment Policies in the COVID-19 Era
How states are rethinking system accountability and k-12 assessment systems in the COVID-19 era