{"id":19539,"date":"2024-12-03T14:25:31","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T19:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/?post_type=cw_post&p=19539"},"modified":"2024-12-03T20:45:28","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T01:45:28","slug":"first-100-days-recommendations-memo-to-the-trump-vance-transition-team","status":"publish","type":"cw_post","link":"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/cw_post\/first-100-days-recommendations-memo-to-the-trump-vance-transition-team\/","title":{"rendered":"First 100 Days Recommendations: Memo to the Trump-Vance Transition Team"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Aurora Institute has prepared this memo to the incoming Trump-Vance Administration.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Aurora Institute (Aurora) is a national nonprofit working to drive the transformation of K-12 <\/span>education systems and accelerate the advancement of breakthrough policies and practices to ensure high-quality learning for all. Aurora <\/span>believes the Trump-Vance administration has an opportunity to transform traditional approaches to K-12 education to better meet the needs of all students, and improve our nation\u2019s growth and competitiveness.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The United States continues to rank behind other developed nations on international exams\u2013including <\/span>ranking 26th in mathematics in 2022<\/span><\/a>. If we want to prepare our young people to compete in an increasingly complex and global economy, we cannot continue operating our K-12 system the same way we have for decades.<\/span><\/p>\n

To effectively prepare more learners for college, the workforce, and leadership in a variety of contexts, students must be at the center of their learning experiences. Creating learner-centered education systems requires fundamental system-wide shifts. Your administration can set the agenda for rethinking K-12 education and how that system interacts with the world outside the classroom.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In September, Aurora released a set of <\/span>Federal Policy Priorities and Recommendations<\/span><\/a>. While states and local communities drive much of education policy, the federal government has an important role to play in fostering systems transformation. This memo recommends actions your administration can take in the first 100 days to make a difference immediately and set the administration on a path for creating the conditions for systems transformation.<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Promote Assessment Innovation<\/strong><\/p>\n

Balanced assessment systems support meaningful, positive, and empowering learning experiences for students and yield timely, relevant, and actionable evidence. Achieving balanced systems of assessments will require diversifying the federal focus on large-scale summative assessments toward encouraging greater investment in innovation around a variety of assessment types with different purposes. In the first 100 days the administration can:<\/span><\/p>\n