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Nearly half of waiver states adopted a 'cut the gap in half' achievement goal, while only Arizona chose 100 percent proficiency by 2020

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q2 i? Nearly half of waiver states chose some version of the cut-the-gap-in-half achievement goal; only Arizona chose 100 percent proficiency by 2020 and Louisiana retained the NCLB 2014 goal. → Daria Hall 2013

Evidence

Daria Hall 2013

Daria Hall. (2013). A Step Forward or a Step Back? State Accountability in the Waiver Era. The Education Trust. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED543222

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The report's review of state waiver plans reports that "nearly half the states receiving waivers chose some version of the 'cut the gap in half' achievement goal," a framework the Education Trust developed from multi-state data analysis; the goal requires faster improvement from groups starting farthest behind.

"Nearly half the states receiving waivers chose some version of the "cut the gap in half" achievement goal. The idea for this goal originated at The Education Trust after extensive analysis of data from multiple states to identify rates of improvement and gap closing that meet the "ambitious but achievable" test."

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type claim
id cut-gap-in-half-goal-adoption
title Nearly half of waiver states adopted a 'cut the gap in half' achievement goal, while only Arizona chose 100 percent proficiency by 2020
description Nearly half of waiver states adopted a 'cut the gap in half' achievement goal, while only Arizona chose 100 percent proficiency by 2020
status review
evidence_strength moderate
newest_evidence 2013
recheck_by 2018
generated by process:wiki-ingest on 2026-10-10
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