New research finds Every Child Ready to Read curriculum leads to successful family engagement through libraries
CHICAGO – Libraries are taking a proactive approach toward engaging parents and caregivers in supporting the early literacy development of their children, and the Every Child Ready to Read® @ your library® (ECRR) Program is an excellent tool to ensure libraries’ success.
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The Unique Challenges Facing Young Middle-Class Black Teachers in High Poverty Schools
A new book explores how middle class teachers of color can balance economic and social class when working in low-income schools.
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App aims to get students with disabilities on ‘trajectory for independent living’
Pennsylvania teens and young adults with disabilities now have access to a free app designed to help them find jobs, manage their needs and get on track to living independently.
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Black Parent Town Hall spotlights ESSA, quality education
CROSSROADS NEWS — Parents, grandparents and anyone raising school-age children, as well as property owners in DeKalb and across Georgia, can find out about the new national education law – Every Student Succeed Act, or ESSA – at a Black Parents’ Town Hall Meeting on Educational Excellence on Oct. 23 at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.
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Segregating Public Schools Won’t Make America Great Again
Rushern Baker, the county executive of Prince Georges County, Md., says that our public school system is the most segregated place in America.
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Black Students in the Nation’s Capital Deserve Better
Parents and educators alike expressed concern about the lack of resources and implementation strategies to support the Office of the State Superintendent of Education’s (OSSE) aggressive goals for academic proficiency and high school graduation.
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VIDEO: ‘Huge Lift’ Remains as Puerto Rico Schools Struggle to Reopen
When Hurricane Maria struck the island Sept. 20, the nearly 1,200 schools in Puerto Rico went dark, leaving about 350,000 students in the public K-12 system out of school. And many schools that began to reopen in recent weeks were operating largely as community-support centers, rather than normal instructional environments, until recently.
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Every Student Succeeds Act in Episode 84 of Transition Tuesday
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) has been revised by Congress several times. In 1965, Congress created the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), which was later reauthorized as The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) and was most recently reauthorized in 2015 as The Every Student Succeeds Act. This act is important because it means that States and school districts are responsible to ensure that every child achieves.
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OPINION: School district partnerships with afterschool can help meet ESSA goals
The passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), the long-awaited successor to No Child Left Behind, creates a unique framework for school boards, teachers, administrators and communities to work together to make sure all children have access to high-quality, well-rounded education.
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More Schools Receive Free Technology Through SecondLaunch Initiative
Now, in its third year, SecondLaunch has saved the state $3 million in technology costs and has provided more than 8,000 computers to students in 47 counties.
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Get the facts on school segregation
School “resegregation” has been in the news lately, but is it real? Are our schools becoming less diverse, even as our student body becomes increasingly so?
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Averages mask regional differences in school segregation
We recently released a report on school segregation in the U.S. While we think that following national trends are helpful, and that lessons can be learned from one region to another, we also acknowledge that segregation looks different in each region, state, and metropolitan area. So, even though racial balance overall has been improving over …
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Pennsylvania’s ESSA Consolidated State Plan
I am pleased to advise that Pennsylvania has submitted its proposed ESSA Consolidated State Plan to the U.S. Department of Education. A copy of the plan may be viewed on the Department’s ESSA webpage.
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Update on Department of Education Response to Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma
Washington — As part of its ongoing efforts to aid Hurricane Harvey relief efforts and in the wake of Hurricane Irma, the Department of Education released the following update:
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It Will Take More than ESSA to Save Black Children
Lynette Monroe, the program assistant for the NNPA’s Every Student Succeeds Act Public Awareness Campaign, talks about the importance of Black parental engagement in education.
read moreStandards, Assessment and Accountability
- AASA Summary/Overview of Final ESSA Accountability Regulations
- AASA Letter on USED Call for Requests for ESSA Guidance
- AASA Summary of USED Proposed Regulations for Accountability
- AASA Response to USED Proposed Regulations for Accountability
- AASA Response to USED Proposed Regulations for Assessment
- State Accountability One Pager (50 State Set)
- ESSA Standards and Assessments FAQ
- Rural Education: An Overview of Rural Education in the Every Student Succeeds Act
- Top Nine Takeaways: ESSA and Accountability
Foster and Homeless Students
- New Requirements for Educating Students in Foster Care
- New Requirements in ESSA Impacting the Education of Homeless Students
- Toolkit: Considerations for LEAs in Developing Transportation Procedures for Students in Foster Care Under ESSA
AASA and School Innovations & Achievement Resources
- ESSA Evidence Base
- ESSA Private School Share
- ESSA Overview
- ESSA Road to Reauthorization
- ESSA Schoolwide Plan Flexibility
- ESSA State and Local Plans<
- ESSA Assessments
- ESSA Accountability
- ESSA Accountability and Regs
- ESSA Timeline
- ESSA Intervention
Webinars
- Supplement not Supplant: Latest ESSA Regulations and What is Means for Districts
- Leveraging ESSA’s Evidence Provisions to Help Every Student Succeed
- The Every Student Succeeds Act, Title I: Opportunities for Community-School Partnerships
- An Overview of the Every Student Succeeds Act and What it Means for Community-School Partnerships