CORE districts' multiple-measures accountability system spanning academic and social-emotional domains¶

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Description¶

The California Office to Reform Education (CORE) districts, a network of 10 districts that secured an ESEA flexibility waiver in 2013, use a multiple measures accountability system with two domains: Academic Achievement, including growth and achievement on state English Language Arts and math tests, graduation rates, and an 8th grade on-track-to-graduate rate; and Social/Emotional and School Culture and Climate, including "measures of social-emotional skills; suspension/expulsion rates; chronic absenteeism; culture/climate surveys from students, staff, and parents; and English learner redesignation rates." The indicators are organized into a dashboard on a school report card used to evaluate progress and plan improvements.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

Indicators must be valid, reliable, comparable, and disaggregated by subgroups

Constraints¶

The report states districts have found that attending to these indicators has improved outcomes, but presents no experimental evaluation of the system

Target Learners¶

all students in the CORE districts
English learners
students at risk of disengaging from school

Learning Goals¶

academic achievement and growth
social-emotional skills
positive school climate

Claims¶

California's 2010s systemic alignment of standards, curriculum frameworks, instructional materials, assessments, teacher education, equitable funding, and multiple measures accountability

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

Cook-Harvey, C.M., Darling-Hammond, L., Lam, L., Mercer, C., & Roc, M. (2016). Equity and ESSA: Leveraging Educational Opportunity Through the Every Student Succeeds Act. Palo Alto, CA: Learning Policy Institute. http://learningpolicyinstitute.org/product/equity-essa

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