SEP 1
Round 1 papers live: Introduction, Legal Sufficiency, Community Trust
A NEW TENT FOR ACCOUNTABILITY
FROM COMPULSION TO ASSENT.
For three decades, education in America has operated under top-down, test-based mandates. The results are now clear: high compliance, stagnant performance, narrowed curriculum, and educators and families walking away from a system that was supposed to serve them. EAR is a coalition of practitioners, researchers, and policy leaders reconstructing accountability around the mutual assent of students, families, and educators — not compulsion.
SEP 18
Webinar: Reading Legal Sufficiency with author Harry Feder
OCT
Advisory Board opens to the public
01–05 / SYSTEM REFRAME
FIVE PILLARS DETERMINING THE SHAPE OF THE SYSTEM.
01
LEGAL SUFFICIENCY
Test scores aren't the only evidence that can support the legal case for education adequacy.
02
COMMUNITY TRUST
Trust is a prerequisite for accountability, not a byproduct of it.
03
CAPACITY
Capacity for authentic assessment builds over time — it isn't all or nothing.
04
COMPARABILITY
We can compare what matters without reducing learning to a single test score.
05
EVIDENCE OF LEARNING
Authentic evidence that's useful, actionable, and responsive to what students, families, and employers actually value.
RELEASE SCHEDULE
BI-WEEKLY / SEPT 1 →
SEP 1 · LIVE
Intro & Legal Sufficiency
SEP 15
Community Trust
SEP 29
Comparability
OCT 13
Capacity
TBD
Evidence of Learning
GET INVOLVED
HOWEVER MUCH TIME YOU HAVE, THERE'S A WAY IN.
WHO WE ARE
A coalition of practitioners, researchers, and policy leaders from Kentucky, New Mexico, New York, and Virginia, working with the Center for Innovation in Education and the National Center for Fair & Open Testing.
Center for Innovation in Education
National Center for Fair & Open Testing