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Cook-Harvey, Channa M.; Darling-Hammond, Linda; Lam, Livia; Mercer, Charmaine; Roc, Martens – Learning Policy Institute, 2016
Despite the American promise of equal educational opportunity for all students, persistent achievement gaps among more and less advantaged groups of students remain, along with the opportunity gaps that create disparate outcomes. However, the recent passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) represents an opportunity for the federal…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
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Cook-Harvey, Channa M.; Darling-Hammond, Linda; Lam, Livia; Mercer, Charmaine; Roc, Martens – Learning Policy Institute, 2016
Despite the American promise of equal educational opportunity for all students, persistent achievement gaps among more and less advantaged groups of students remain, along with the opportunity gaps that create disparate outcomes. However, the recent passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) represents an opportunity for the federal…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
Darling-Hammond, Linda; Hill, Paul T. – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2015
In summer of 2014, two groups of scholars and policy experts met separately to rethink educational accountability. These groups came from what most would consider different "camps" on school reform--one focused on transforming teaching for "deeper learning" and the other focused on choice as a means for leveraging school…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education