Achieve
For Development Of Tools And Capacity To Undertake External Reviews Of State Assessments
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Amount$1,000,000
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Program
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Date Awarded7/11/2016
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Term30 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Program
Strategies
Overview
Achieve is an independent, nonpartisan education reform organization dedicated to working with states to raise academic standards and graduation requirements, improve assessments, and strengthen accountability. States adopting new college- and career-ready assessments of student achievement will work voluntarily with Achieve to "test the test" by gauging alignment to state standards, quality of content, and depth of cognitive demand. Ensuring that measurement of deeper learning outcomes is accurate, useful, and widespread will require states to adopt high-quality assessment systems rather than choose them primarily on the basis of price or test duration.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.achieve.org
Address
1919 M Street, NW, Suite 450, Washington, DC, 20036, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for support of state adoptions of OER materials
Achieve plans to work with a set of states to support training in OER tools and guidelines developed under a previous grant. The project also intends to merge its work with the EQuIP project to support states as they move toward adoption of next-generation digital resources.
for developing instructional materials and new state assessments
For developing instructional materials and new state assessments.
for a 22-state initiative to evaluate alignment of instructional materials to the Common Core
This national leader in standards-based school reform proposes to expand its work with states in support of the Common Core. With this grant, Achieve would drive the educational marketplace to make high-quality instructional materials widely available as OER, advancing our goal of improving the quality of curricular materials.
