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    Measuring Growth in Test Scores is Key to Understanding Student Progress

    Join us in welcoming new improvement coaches, a program specialist and a program manager to the CORE team. Our team…

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  • Welcome New CORE Team Members

    Join us in welcoming new improvement coaches, a program specialist and a program manager to the CORE team. Our team…

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  • CORE makes recommendations for Growth and Chronic Absence on State Dashboard

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  • Chris Steinhauser: 3 tips for Gov. Brown on how to close California’s pervasive achievement gaps

    An open letter to the governor of California prior to his final State of the State Address: Dear Governor Jerry…

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  • School District Networks Use Improvement Science to Get Results

    In a new brief, the CORE Districts and Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE) highlight lessons learned from the first…

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  • Local Improvement Facilitators Get Training through CORE Network

    The CORE Districts Local Improvement Facilitator Training Program is preparing school- and district-based leaders to facilitate continuous quality improvement through…

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  • CORE Launches Executive Leadership Program for Improvement & Equity

    A team of school leaders selected to participate in CORE Districts’ Executive Leadership for Improvement & Equity (ELIE) Program is…

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  • New CORE Districts Research Highlights On-the-Ground Learnings on Continuous Improvement and the Benefits of a Networked Approach

    In a new brief, the CORE Districts and Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE) highlight lessons learned from the first…

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  • CORE Districts Urge Congress to Preserve DACA Immediately

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  • Gaps are Pervasive; Test Scores Alone Mask Growth

    When reviewing and reporting CAASPP results, proceed with caution. While 2016-17 test results show modest improvements, they don’t take into…

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    CORE urges California State Board to submit a waiver for an Innovation Zone in the state’s ESSA plan.

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    The Power of Two: Embracing Both Proficiency and Growth

    As surreal as it was, the recent confirmation hearing for Betsy DeVos, the likely next secretary of education, raised a…

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    Calif. CORE Districts Pilot Accountability Measures

    In school accountability, flashlights work better than hammers. That’s the oft-repeated argument of California’s CORE districts, a data collaborative now…

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  • Strong, Locally Generated Data Key to School Improvement Strategies

    This October 9, 2016 EdSource commentary written by California State Board of Education president Michael Kirst highlights the need for strong locally-generated…

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    California’s Dashboard Data Will Guide Improvement; A Forum on How States Should Design Their Accountability Systems

    After more than a decade of strict federal mandates and measures of school success, a new education law is inviting…

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    CORE Districts Can Inform State’s New Accountability System

    As California prepares to adopt its new multiple-measure school accountability system, the CORE Districts can offer firsthand experience and data…

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    Tough Measurements for School Success Needed

    The state of California, the federal government, and your local school district all agree — our lowest-performing schools need support…

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    California Data Show Flaws in Federal Regulations

    When Congress passed the Every Student Succeeds Act in 2015, it was celebrated as relief from its predecessor, but as…

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  • A Japanese classroom with desk and tables and blakckboard is taken from low angle.

    Proposed Federal, State Accountability Systems Could Again Clash

    Differences in proposed federal and state criteria for intervening in the lowest-performing schools could lead to what California education officials…

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    CORE Districts Want State Waiver to Continue Their Work

    The six California school districts that designed their own school accountability and improvement model are asking the State Board of…

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    6 Things to Know About LAUSDS New School Accountability System

    A group of six California school districts, including LA Unified, this week unveiled a new school accountability system that represents…

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    New Ranking System for Fresno Unified Schools Moves Away From Test Scores

    Under a new school accountability system for Fresno Unified, a school with the best test scores may not be labeled…

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    How Many Numbers Does It Take to Fix a School?

    The experience of the last quarter century tells us that it only takes one number to label, shame, or laud…

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  • Educator decorating ornaments with a group of kids

    Ready To Be Counted: Why Non-Cognitive Skills Must be Incorporated into Ed Policy, Practice

    The enactment of the Every Student Succeeds Act reinvigorates a discussion as old as education itself – what skills do…

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  • Group of teenage students sitting in the classroom and writing in the notebooks.

    Waiver States Could Learn from CA’s CORE on ESSA

    As most of the nation’s schools ponder the new goals set by the Every Child Succeeds Act, a group of…

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  • CORE-PACE Analysis on Student Level Growth Measure

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    CORE Districts Announce Social-Emotional Assessment Design Challenge

    The CORE Districts today announced a design challenge for new, state-of-the-art assessments of social-emotional skills. The goal is to identify…

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  • Multi ethnic group of pre-school children in a classroom.

    CORE Data Collaborative Advances Local School Improvement Strategies

    More than one hundred educators gathered today in Los Angeles for the official kickoff of the CORE Data Collaborative, analyzing data…

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  • Cheerful children looking at plants in test-tubes

    Data Network Expands to Support Local School Improvement Efforts

    The CORE Districts announced today the expansion of the CORE Data Collaborative to include a range of urban, suburban and…

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  • Hispanic male high school science teacher talks with female Indian student about DNA. The student is holding a DNA helix model.

    Long Beach Schools Take Survey on Academics, Social Issues

    The Long Beach Unified School District this week began collecting data through its CORE Survey, intended to gather information on…

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    California Provides Model for Measuring Schools’ Performance

    With the new Every Student Succeeds Act returning power over oversight and accountability measures back to states, it’s no surprise…

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    State Needs a School Report Card that Works

    For too long in California and in other states, we have been having the wrong conversation about public education.

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