How School Districts are Responding to ESSA’s Evidence Requirements for School Improvemen

Today, the Center on Education Policy at the George Washington University released its second in a series of reports on the implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act's requirements to use evidence-based school improvement approaches in low-performing schools.  The report, District Leader Interviews: How School Districts are Responding to ESSA’s Evidence Requirements for School Improvement, is based on interviews with leaders in five school districts across the nation.  The interviews explored how these districts selected the evidence-based school improvement strategies, the impact of the new requirements on relationships with vendors, the type of assistance received from the state, their capacity to implement the evidence requirements, and their advice for making research more accessible to educators.  The report is available on the CEP web site and can be downloaded free-of-charge.