Center on Standards, Alignment, Instruction, and Learning (C-SAIL) at Penn GSE

For as long as the United States has been engaged in standards-based education reform, we have achieved only modest gains and failed to close the achievement gap (Dee & Jacob, 2012; Hanushek & Raymond, 2005). Researchers point to a number of flaws in both design and implementation that have undermined the ideals of standards-based reform. These include poor-quality content standards with unclear language, poor-quality and poorly aligned assessments, flawed school accountability metrics, and inad

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For as long as the United States has been engaged in standards-based education reform, we have achieved only modest gains and failed to close the achievement gap (Dee & Jacob, 2012; Hanushek & Raymond, 2005). Researchers point to a number of flaws in both design and implementation that have undermined the ideals of standards-based reform. These include poor-quality content standards with unclear language, poor-quality and poorly aligned assessments, flawed school accountability metrics, and inad

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