Topic: State and Federal Policy

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Imagining the Future of Educator Licensure: Minnesota’s Bold Step Forward

What does reimagining teacher licensure look like when faced with teacher shortages and other forces reshaping education?

Shelby Taylor
Director of Marketing and Communications

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EngageMN: A New Kind of Movement for Education in Minnesota

A new bill in Minnesota supports real-world learning for credits. Here’s how an education advocacy group and a former student in particular supported it.

Shelby Taylor
Director of Marketing and Communications

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States Are Reimagining Education Through Student-centered Policy

Insights from five years of policy implementation and progress

Lillian Pace
Vice President of Policy and Strategic Advancement

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Driving Personalized Learning: Lessons in Leadership from Kentucky, Arizona and South Carolina

Education leaders across the nation share the role of leaders, lessons learned, challenges and conditions for education transformation.

Jon Alfuth
Senior Director of State Policy

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2025 Legislative Session Recap

Dive into trends from this year’s legislative session that show support for student-centered learning.

Emily Brixey, PhD
Senior Manager of Policy, Advocacy and Research

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New State Policy Framework Builds on Decades of High School Transformation

Transforming high schools through student-centered state policy

Jon Alfuth
Senior Director of State Policy

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Accountability and Assessment: Six Targeted Federal Waiver Ideas for Advancing Student-centered Learning

Ideas help states modernize assessment and accountability systems to support student-centered learning.

Lillian Pace
Vice President of Policy and Strategic Advancement

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Competency-based Transcripts: Key State Policy Considerations

Rethinking transcripts to reflect student mastery and real-world skills

Jon Alfuth
Senior Director of State Policy

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Reimagining Federal Priorities to Support Student-centered Learning

KnowledgeWorks' public comments that both support and challenge elements of the U.S. Department of Education's approach to CBE

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Embracing Policy Innovation

A bold new vision for the future of education reimagines what’s possible in education when learning systems and structures center students.

Shelby Taylor
Director of Marketing and Communications

The State of Competency-Based Education Policy

Learn about state policies that support competency-based learning in an interactive map developed in partnership with FullScale.

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State Policy Framework for Personalized Learning

Eight conditions to support the growth of personalized, competency-based learning through state policy

Jon Alfuth
Senior Director of State Policy

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