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Articles by Jim Cowen

Jim Cowen is the executive director of the Collaborative for Student Success, a nonprofit advocacy organization that works to defend high standards, high-quality assessments and strong systems of accountability, to ensure that all kids are prepared for college or career.

Game-Changing Automatic Enrollment Policies Win Our March Math-ness Bracket

Jim Cowen

Introducing the March Mathness Tournament

Jim Cowen

Parents Need to Know About Student Progress. Most State Data Comes out Too Late

Jim Cowen

New Dashboard Showcases Innovative Ideas in Education

Jim Cowen, Robin Lake & Chad Aldeman

Lake & Cowen: What a Diverse Group of 20 School Districts Are Doing Right in Their COVID-19 Reopening Plans

Robin Lake & Jim Cowen

CRPE and Collaborative for Student Success Team Up to Create a Planning Tool to Help Districts Craft Strong Reopening Plans

Jim Cowen & Robin Lake

Cowen & Forte: 5 Critical Steps to Take to Fix Our Students’ Flagging Literacy Skills and Falling NAEP Scores

Jim Cowen & Denise Forte

Porter & Cowen: A New Review Examines 17 States’ Efforts in Boosting Struggling Schools. So What Do (and Don’t) We Know About the Dozens of Other Missing School Improvement Plans?

William Porter & Jim Cowen