Secretary John King will be tasked with carrying out the new federal education policy, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which eliminates the «Adequate Yearly Progress» annual test score gain requirement. (iamaneducator.com)
Value - added methodology is an alternative use of annual test score data to assess teacher quality. (carnegieknowledgenetwork.org)
It was the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) that required schools, for the first time, to report truancy data to the federal government, alongside annual test scores in reading and math, as well as high school graduation rates. (themarshallproject.org)