In order to support its member chief state school officers in making critical decisions about school choice policies, CCSSO has undertaken an effort to encourage the discussion of school choice policies across its membership. As an initial follow-up to its recent policy statement on school choice, CCSSO has attempted to address the often-asked question "What are other states doing?" by creating an ideologically-agnostic landscape analysis of school choice policies across the states.
This white paper provides the Innovation Lab Network's framework for defining college and career readiness consistent with deeper learning, and describes policy and implementation considerations for states adopting or adapting the framework.
This issue brief, written for education and state policy leaders, provides a detailed description of the Educare early childhood model.
A guide to make sense of current and historical class size research literature for use by Chief State School Officers and state education agnecy staff
This online toolkit was developed by the Expanded Learning Opportunities (ELO) program at CCSSO to support chief state school officers and state education agency staffs in your efforts to implement high-quality ELOs. This toolkit includes research on ELOs, content related to state implementation of federal ELOs (e.g. 21st Century Community Learning Centers, Supplemental Educational Services), as well as information about state-based programs.
CCSSO’s Adolescent Literacy Toolkit was developed by the Council and multiple partners in response to a state-identified need to develop the skills, knowledge, and resources of content-area high school teachers to implement adolescent literacy best practices and strategies in their classrooms.
A two-part analysis demonstrating (1) common themes across international educational goal frameworks, and (2) common foundational skills across U.S. labor industries.
This video provides an overview of the mission and work of CCSSO's Innovation Lab Network
Part one of the Competency based education series includes a working definition for competency education, examples of states doing the ground breaking work in this area and an appropriate role for the federal government to remove policy barriers and to create diagnostic and assessment tools to measure effectiveness. Included in this publication is a continuum to help innovators and policymakers differentiate between full-scale competency models and those that have begun to pave the way for this work.
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