On Friday, the U.S. Department of Education announced $29 million in new grant awards to 10 states to support innovative new approaches to student assessment. The new funding, passed by Congress earlier this year, met a critical gap in Federal leadership to rethink assessment. The Innovative Assessment Pilot in the 2015 Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) finally […]
Maria Worthen
Do the new proposed U.S. Department of Education GEPA regulations provide a more meaningful standard for equity in federal grants?
The public has an opportunity to tell the federal Education Department (ED) whether its proposal to change a grant application requirement will have a meaningful impact on the equity of grant programs. On Thursday, August 4, 2022, ED published a Federal Register notice asking for public comment on a revised GEPA form that all grantees […]
How to prevent school shootings (hint: it’s not educators’ problem to fix)
The epidemic of school shootings like the one that happened Tuesday in Uvalde, Texas, cannot be solved by educators. America’s gun violence epidemic has systemic causes that only systemic solutions can begin to fix. Political and media reactions to the massacre of 21 little children and their teachers at Robb Elementary School have sounded a […]
Upcoming Events
Find a listing of all scheduled events with the Education Policy Club on Clubhouse right in the club landing page on the app. Selected past event summaries will appear in the summaries and resources section below.
Maria Worthen
Maria Worthen, MSW is the founder and principal consultant, Education Policy Strategies, LLC. She is a nationally-recognized expert in K-12 education policy. As the Vice President, Federal & State Policy at the Aurora Institute (formerly iNACOL), she led the development of the Center for Policy Advocacy and provided testimony, lawmaker education, and technical assistance to the […]
How Systems of Assessments Aligned with Competency-Based Education Can Support Equity
2020 iNACOL Issue Brief – Link to resource
Rethinking State Accountability to Support Personalized, Competency-Based Learning in K-12 Education
2017 iNACOL Issue Brief – link to document
State Accountability Systems in the COVID Era and Beyond
By Robin Lake & Maria Worthen, February 2021 Go to publication (link goes to the CRPE website)
Special education, IDEA, and policy implications post-COVID
Education Policy Club Events @ Clubhouse: June 8-10, 2021 Join Education Policy Club founders Dr. Berthena Nabaa-McKinney-McKinney and Maria Worthen, plus special guests Nkoyo Effiong, Dr. Jill Brown, Annette Lee, and Chandra Henry for a discussion on Special education, IDEA, and policy implications post-COVID. Join using the following links: Link for June 8th at 11:30 […]
In-Room Chat Backchannel
In-Room Chat Backchannel Backchannel chat app for Education Policy Club rooms (external link to ch.chat) Use code: 7576
