{"id":11172,"date":"2022-07-06T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coreeducationllc.com\/blog2\/?p=11172"},"modified":"2022-07-05T17:30:46","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T21:30:46","slug":"unfinished-agenda-the-future-of-standards-based-school-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coreeducationllc.com\/blog2\/unfinished-agenda-the-future-of-standards-based-school-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Unfinished Agenda: The Future of Standards-Based School Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Future Ed recently published a piece in which Michael Cohen and Laura Slover review the history of standards-based school reform and propose next steps for the future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The long campaign to raise standards in the nation\u2019s public schools, for decades the cornerstone of efforts to improve the educational opportunities and outcomes of traditionally underserved students, is out of fashion in school reform circles. Without standards sufficient to ready students for college and careers, many students, the history of public education makes clear, simply won\u2019t get the demanding education they need to navigate an increasingly complex world successfully. Rather than abandoning standards, we and other leaders of the standards movement need to acknowledge and address a critical shortcoming of the movement\u2014that we failed to prioritize the hard work of translating standards into rigorous curriculum materials, instructional strategies and teacher training. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To that end, we propose a fundamental shift in state accountability systems, in which states primarily hold districts accountable for the coherence of their instructional program and its continuous improvement, while continuing to publicly report disaggregated achievement and attainment results and attach modest consequences to them, consistent with the federal Every Student Succeeds Act. These are some of the key moves that states and districts should consider:<\/p>\n\n\n\n