Schools are increasingly held accountable for their contributions to students’ academic growth in math and reading. Under The Every Student Succeeds Act, most states are estimating how much schools improve student achievement over time and using those growth metrics to identify the bottom 5% of schools for remediation.

Beth Tarasawa and colleagues share research-based assessment practices that support classroom learning.

In this Brookings Institute Chalkboard blog, James Soland shares his work investigating how student test engagement may shape achievement gaps.

Learn what research shows about how the use of achievement data as the predominant metric for determining school success may perpetuate education inequity.

Strategies from the Multnomah County Partnership for Education Research can help strengthen student-teacher relationships and improve student achievement.

Megan Kuhfeld shares work exploring how differing patterns of summer learning loss or growth may impact academic achievement gaps.

Devices are only as accessible as the content they deliver to students. Put your vendor list to the test with these accessibility questions.