Closing the achievement gaps: Will California’s reforms make a difference?
Student scores on the Smarter Balanced assessments, the centerpiece of the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress, or CAASPP, were released in September 2015. They underscored the continuing achievement gaps that decades of education reforms have failed to close. EdSource conducted a series of interviews with leading educators and scholars about the persistence of these achievement gaps and the prospects for the current set of reforms in California to help close them.
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We have also collected the Q&As in one place in this easily downloadable – and printable – document. Closing the achievement gaps: Will California’s reforms make a difference? | EdSource:
Louis Freedberg
Executive Director, EdSource
Christopher Edley, Jr.
Professor and Former Dean, UC Berkeley School of Law
Sean Reardon
Professor of Poverty and Inequality, Stanford Graduate School of Education
Michael Fullan
Professor Emeritus, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
Linda Darling-Hammond
Professor, Stanford University and President and CEO, Learning Policy Institute
