Save the science! A look at Pennsylvania’s ESSA plan’s inequity by Kathryn M. Bateman
In early August, news broke that Pennsylvania had laid out its plan to comply with the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). Parents, teachers and community members were overjoyed; headlines ecstatically proclaimed new guidelines under ESSA meant less time spent on standardized testing in schools.[1] These articles state, and the ESSA report confirms (Pennsylvania Department of