Center for Standards, Assessment, and Accountability

Keyword: Accountability

Coming Together to Raise Achievement: New Assessments for the Common Core State Standards

This guide focuses on the Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSSI), which formally began in June 2009 as a collaborative effort among nearly all U.S. states and territories. Forty-five states subsequently adopted the CCSS in mathematics and English language arts (ELA) and joined one of two consortia of states to develop and implement common assessments. […]

A Compendium of Research on the Common Core State Standards

From the publisher: “The Center on Education Policy has put together this compendium, which very briefly summarizes the published research on many different aspects of the CCSS. Our objective was to create an accessible and readable overview of current research that can inform implementation, policy discussions, and the development of future research on the Common […]

A Compendium of Research on the Common Core State Standards: Implementation

This compendium summarizes published research on different areas of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). This particular resource (users should download the “Implementation” paper) is to create “an accessible and readable overview of current research” to inform implementation, policy discussions, and development of future research on the CCSS (p. i). The research studies included in […]

Has Progress Been Made in Raising Achievement for English Language Learners?

This report examines the progress in raising achievement for English language learner (ELL) students, and it describes the factors that make it difficult to accurately assess what ELL students know and can do. The Center on Education Policy, an independent nonprofit organization, with technical support from the Human Resources Research Organization, collected the data for […]

States’ Perspectives on Waivers: Relief from NCLB, Concern about Long-term Solutions

This report describes states’ early experiences in applying for flexibility from key requirements of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), also known as NCLB waivers, and their plans for implementing the new systems outlined in their applications. Findings from the 38 survey states indicate states believe that the waivers address several of the problems […]