Elizabeth Ty Wilde

The Promise Neighborhoods program provides distressed communities funding to directly address student academic, social, and health needs as well as employment and other challenges that might contribute to these needs. With more than $500 million invested under Title IV of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) since 2010, the program gives grantees the flexibility to define their Promise Neighborhood and offer a wide set of supports and services intended to improve academic outcomes

State testing has long been a cornerstone of federal education policy, but interest in reforming these assessments has been growing. Academic assessments can ideally serve multiple purposes: diagnosing what students know in order to tailor instruction, assessing school performance for accountability, and monitoring both students and schools for improvement. To encourage the development of novel assessments that better serve all of these purposes, Congress created the Innovative Assessment and

Effective school leadership and teaching are at the heart of school improvement. Recognizing this, the 2015 update to the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act established the Teacher and School Leader Incentive (TSL) program. TSL aims to help selected districts to improve their human capital management — the way in which they make and implement educator preparation, recruitment, hiring, placement, retention, dismissal, compensation, professional development, and tenure and prom

Creatively redistributing existing teachers in a school may yield academic benefits for students at little additional cost. One such strategy is departmentalized instruction, where each teacher specializes in teaching one subject to multiple classes of students instead of teaching all subjects to a single class (self-contained instruction). Although common in secondary schools, departmentalization has only recently become more popular in elementary schools. This evaluation examines schools' ex

Under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), Title II, Part A provides grants to states and subgrants to local education agencies. The grants are a primary source of federal funding to improve the quality and effectiveness of teachers, principals, and other school leaders. A broad range of activities is permissible at both the state and district level under this program. The funding is also intended to provide low-income and minority students greater access to effective teachers, principals, a