by Russ Jones | Apr 26, 2017 | ESSA
In an earlier blog, I highlighted a number of important proposals in Ohio’s plan submitted to the U.S. Department of Education (USDOE) for compliance with the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). The Ohio Department of Education (ODE) spent over a year gathering...
by Russ Jones | Feb 3, 2017 | ESSA
Since the passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) in December of 2016, the Ohio Department of Education (ODE) has been busy preparing Ohio’s draft plan which must be submitted to and approved by the U.S. Department of Education. The draft plan must...
by Russ Jones | Oct 18, 2016 | ESSA
The standards era in education has produced a plethora of “accountability measures” enacted by the federal government and state legislatures that have relied heavily, if not exclusively, on standardized test scores. Educators across the country have long...
by Russ Jones | Jan 7, 2016 | ESSA
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)is the long awaited re-authorization of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2002. ESSA, signed by President Obama in December of 2015, returns a great measure of decision making along numerous measures of school success to state...
