A Way Forward Beyond America’s Education Stalemate
Layoffs have left the federal report card office with only a handful of staff, raising concerns that state data collection is compromised.
- Among executive orders issued last year, the White House directed the Education Department to close to the maximum extent permitted by law, resulting in half of the agency's employees being fired, including almost 90% from the Institute of Education Sciences.
- President George W. Bush founded the Institute in 2002 to increase educational accountability through rigorous research, but the current White House appetite for disruption has left the agency struggling to fulfill its core mission.
- According to one former senior official, the center is "running on vapors," and state data collection essential for producing the Nation's Report Card has been compromised by the loss of staff.
- Without functional statistics, policymakers cannot identify troubling trends or adopt necessary interventions, threatening both students and the future of the American economy as research capabilities deteriorate.
- Texas offers an alternative path through the Texas Partnerships Act , which incentivizes school districts to partner with charter operators, demonstrating that schools improve faster when autonomy and accountability move together.
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Hawaii Tribune-Herald
We can’t fix America’s schools without data
At a time when both U.S. parties paint the other as a threat to the country’s future, both are ignoring one of the gravest threats of all: student achievement levels that are abysmally low. The post We can’t fix America’s schools without data appeared first on Hawaii Tribune-Herald.
Commentary: We can’t fix America’s schools without data
Michael R. Bloomberg At a time when both U.S. parties paint the other as a threat to the country’s future, both are ignoring one of the gravest threats of all: student achievement levels that are abysmally low. The only thing worse than failing to teach students basic skills is not knowing how bad their test scores really are, because that ensures nothing will change. And yet that’s exactly where the country is heading, if the White House contin…
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