A NEW TENT FOR ACCOUNTABILITY.
FROM COMPULSION TO MUTUAL 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, and it's time to replace it!
01–05 / SYSTEM REFRAME
FIVE PILLARS DETERMINING THE SHAPE OF THE SYSTEM.
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Test scores aren't the only evidence that can support the legal case for education adequacy.
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CAPACITY
Capacity for authentic assessment builds over time — it isn't all or nothing.
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COMPARABILITY
We can compare what matters without reducing learning to a single test score.
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EVIDENCE OF LEARNING
Authentic evidence that's useful, actionable, and responsive to what students, families, and employers actually value.
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.
