Maria Worthen

New Federal Grant Awards Hold Promise For The Future Of Assessment

New Federal Grant Awards Hold Promise For The Future Of Assessment

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 […]

Do the new proposed U.S. Department of Education GEPA regulations provide a more meaningful standard for equity in federal grants?

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)

How to prevent school shootings (hint: it’s not educators’ problem to fix) picture from the March for Our Lives. A woman holds a sign that reads "America is Failing its Children"

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 […]

Maria Worthen

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 […]

Special education, IDEA, and policy implications post-COVID

Special education, IDEA, and policy implications post-COVID clubhouse schedule screenshot

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 […]

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