As the Colorado General Assembly wraps up the 2026 session, lawmakers once again failed to confront one of the most costly ...

Student test scores in math and reading have been on a steady decline since 2013, well before the COVID-19 pandemic, a new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We’ve long known that politicians influence how ordinary Americans think about education issues. Voters “follow the leader” — ...

The preceding chapters have synthesized our key findings and conclusions from the basic research about the way that incentives operate and from the applied research about the results of implementing ...

When Congress replaced NCLB with the Every Students Succeeds Act, in 2015, the system changed again. States developed their ...

Standardized tests should be used as “a flashlight” on what works in education not as “a hammer” to force outcomes, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said during a speech last week. The statement ...

Policy experts generally agree more value-based accountability is needed in higher ed, but questions remain about how best to ...

Education officials from five statewide organizations are pushing for fundamental changes in the way student achievement is measured each year and how schools are held accountable for meeting the ...

Indiana education leaders are moving toward the final draft of a new K-12 state-required point-based accountability system that’s less reliant on test scores and is more centered on student success.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB) will significantly reshape accountability for institutions of higher education. During the budget reconciliation process that resulted in OBBB, the House and ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...