{"id":1775,"date":"2015-02-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/blog\/statement-on-house-esea-markup-and-recommendations-for-essential-elements\/"},"modified":"2019-12-16T12:54:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T17:54:19","slug":"statement-on-house-esea-markup-and-recommendations-for-essential-elements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/blog\/statement-on-house-esea-markup-and-recommendations-for-essential-elements\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement on House ESEA Markup and Recommendations for Essential Elements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the reauthorization process continues for a next generation Elementary and Secondary Education Act, we urge Members of Congress in both the House and Senate to continue to work together on collaborative solutions to transform K-12 education with personalized, competency-based learning pathways for every student. Passage of the bill out of the committee today is an important first step to a long overdue reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.<\/p>\n<p>iNACOL\u2019s work with state and district leaders throughout the country has identified essential building blocks for a new law supporting the success and achievement of all U.S. students and schools, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>fixing accountability and developing systems of assessments with validity and reliability that takes into account better analysis of individual student growth and multiple measures of learning, including a pilot to enable innovation and competency-based approaches;<\/li>\n<li>rethinking federal policies on educator preparation, credentialing and professional development to prepare educators for personalized, competency-based learning environments;<\/li>\n<li>rewarding successful new learning models and scaling them up through competitive funding;<\/li>\n<li>focusing on equity and excellence, with annual academic assessments to shine a light on achievement gaps and better align the system around student-centered learning in order to ensure all students are reaching their full potential.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more, please see iNACOL\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inacol.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/iNACOL-Press-Release-ESEA-Reauthorization-Discussion-011515.pdf\">statement on the Senate\u2019s ESEA discussion<\/a>\u00a0and our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/esearecommendations\">Recommendations to Support Competency Education in Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act<\/a>, developed in partnership with KnowledgeWorks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the reauthorization process continues for a next generation Elementary and Secondary Education Act, we urge Members&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"issue":[61],"location":[],"class_list":["post-1775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","issue-federal-policy"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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