For a moment, the COVID-19 pandemic succeeded in doing what periodic protests about school accountability could not: Halting it. For the 2019-20 and 2020-21 school years, states did not have to use ...

The genesis of federal school accountability is still much debated. Was it the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, which began the Title I grant program and spurred a new field of ...

As education choice policies sweep the nation, critics are raising concerns about the potential for waste, fraud, and abuse. Yet a closer look reveals that these policies offer a model for ...

We all want an education system that delivers a high-quality education to all children. Ensuring quality requires holding schools accountable for results, but that raises a crucial question: ...