If the point of public education is to prepare young people to enter American society, it’s worth asking how assessment and accountability policies and practices serve that goal.
MAA II Action Accelerator Lessons Learned
While each of the six organizations—Advance Illinois, Council for a Better Louisiana, The Education Trust-New York, Expect More Arizona, Ohio Excels and Tennessee SCORE— developed a unique project to inform and engage families in their state around assessment and accountability issues, there were shared learnings across projects. This is noteworthy as the conditions (political, and otherwise) in each of the states was quite different and yet, there were common themes.