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Download full textOlson, Lynn – State Education Standard, 2020
Last spring's sudden shift to remote learning in response to the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted K-12 education in an unprecedented way. Upon Education Secretary Betsy DeVos's waiver of federally mandated state testing for spring 2020, it also triggered the first nationwide break in state testing in half a century. With students returning to school…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, State Standards, Testing, Educational Change
Direct linkOlson, Lynn – Education Week, 2007
This article focuses on the standards debate in the context of renewing the 5-year-old No Child Left Behind Act. The politically sensitive idea of increasing the rigor of state standards and tests by linking them to standards set at the national level is getting a push from prominent lawmakers as Congress moves to reauthorize the No Child Left…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, State Standards, Academic Achievement, Academic Standards
Olson, Lynn – Education Week, 2005
Less than six months after the nation's governors gathered for a summit on high schools in February 2005, at least half a dozen states have already enacted policies that require students to complete tougher academic programs to earn a diploma. This flurry of activity is evidence that demands for making high school more rigorous, which state and…
Descriptors: High Schools, Graduation, Graduation Requirements, State Legislation
Olson, Lynn – Education Week, 2005
By the end of November, 2005, 26 states will have undergone a "peer review" to determine whether their standards and tests meet the requirements of the Federal No Child Left Behind Act. The reviews, conducted by a team of at least three experts in the fields of standards and assessment, are required under the law. The reviewers do not…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Peer Evaluation, State Standards, Tests
Olson, Lynn – Education Week, 2004
After years of trying to fix trouble schools one at a time, a number of states are weighing stronger measures for intervening in low-performing school districts. The shift is seen as a response to the federal No Child Left Behind Act. States are turning in a bigger way to district-level strategies, in part because as their own accountability…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Boards of Education, School Districts, Accountability
Olson, Lynn – Education Week, 2005
This article discusses the efforts made by the states by adding reading and math exams in previously untested grades as well as setting new performance standards. A survey conducted by the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center found that at least 11 states set new achievement levels in reading/language arts. About nine states did so in…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Definitions, Mathematics Achievement, State Surveys
