Lindsay Fox

This report assesses the first decade of Promise Neighborhoods and the 25 grantees that received their awards between 2011 and 2018. The report describes these grantees and their neighborhoods and assesses how grantees sought to address neighborhood needs and navigate potential implementation challenges. For grantees that received awards in 2011 and 2012, the report also examines whether children living in Promise Neighborhoods experienced changes in educational outcomes.

Education policymakers must balance the reliability of assessments to measure academic knowledge and skills with the burdens that assessments place upon students, teachers, and schools. In 2019, New Jersey began using the New Jersey Student Learning Assessments (NJSLA), shorter assessments based on the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC). Regional Educational Laboratory researchers examined the reliability of test results for the NJSLA by comparing results ...