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Articles by William McKenzie

William McKenzie is senior editorial advisor for the George W. Bush Institute.

The Texas Story: How Mid-Sized Cities Can Prepare Students for Jobs of the Future

Anne Wicks & William McKenzie

The Texas Story: Will Students in West Texas and East Texas Be Ready for Their Futures?

Anne Wicks & William McKenzie

Beyond the Scantron: Ed Tech CEO Larry Berger on Why the Pandemic Is No Excuse to Abscond Accountability and ‘Disruptions Are Great Opportunities to Try Something New’

Holly Kuzmich, Anne Wicks & William McKenzie

Beyond the Scantron: Two Parent Leaders on How to Make State Tests and Results Understandable for Parents

Holly Kuzmich, Anne Wicks & William McKenzie

Beyond the Scantron: National Parents Union Chief on What Tests Reveal About the Quality of an Education — and Why Student Advocates Must Take More Than a Book Report to a Knife Fight Over Higher Standards

Anne Wicks & William McKenzie

Beyond the Scantron: Harvard Expert Andrew Ho on the 3 W’s of Testing and How to Figure Out What Students Have Lost Academically to COVID-19

Anne Wicks & William McKenzie

Beyond the Scantron: Brightbeam CEO Chris Stewart on How the Pandemic Will Widen Achievement Gaps — and How a ‘Data Vacation’ Could Leave Us Clueless About the Crisis

Anne Wicks & William McKenzie

Beyond the Scantron: Center for Assessment Director Scott Marion on How Large-Scale Testing in the Fall Could Set Up ‘Remediation Mindset’

Anne Wicks & William McKenzie

Analysis: As Some Dallas Schools See Gains Through Program Pairing Top Educator Talent With Data-Based Instruction, Could Other Districts Benefit From Similar Strategy?

Anne Wicks & William McKenzie

The Power of a Principal: How Dallas’s ACE Program Pairs Effective Teachers With ‘High Growth’ School Leaders to Help Students Progress

Anne Wicks & William McKenzie

A School Data Breakthrough in Dallas: How an Innovative School Model Is Proving That Data Can Help Teachers Shape Individualized Instruction — and Achieve Impressive Student Growth

Anne Wicks & William McKenzie

Accelerating Excellence in Texas Schools: How the ‘ACE’ Initiative Is Changing the Way Dallas Evaluates Its Teachers and Empowers Students with Data-Driven Instruction

Anne Wicks & William McKenzie

Steve Canavero: There’s an Aspect of Accountability Missing at the District Level — The ‘A’ Word

Anne Wicks & William McKenzie

Pedro Rivera: When Not Used the Right Way, Accountability Is Just Medicine That Is Masking the Root of the Problem — The ‘A’ Word

Anne Wicks & William McKenzie

Bill Haslam: Obama and Bush Both Took ‘Huge Steps’ of Political Courage on Educational Accountability, and Paid Huge Dividends — The ‘A’ Word

Anne Wicks & William McKenzie

John White: ‘Exaggerated Accountability Response in Combination With Exaggerated Chaos Will Produce Distrust’ — The ‘A’ Word

Anne Wicks & William McKenzie

Jamie Woodson: Education Success Isn’t the Responsibility of Any One Sector. We Are All Accountable — The ‘A’ Word

Anne Wicks & William McKenzie

McKenzie: Under ESSA, States Must Hold Schools Accountable. But Their Ratings Must First Be Simple Enough for Parents to Understand

William McKenzie

Turning the Page on No Child Left Behind: Why America’s Next Chapter Needs Understandable Data That Lead to Better Results

Anne Wicks & William McKenzie

16 Years After No Child Left Behind: 10 Reasons Accountability Still Matters

William McKenzie

The ‘A’ Word: Tom Boasberg — ‘Accountability Is Not About Punishment’

Anne Wicks & William McKenzie

The ‘A’ Word: Diane Tavenner — ‘What I Really Want to Know Are Yes-or-No Answers to 3 Things’

Anne Wicks & William McKenzie

The ‘A’ Word: Daniel King — ‘Everything’s at Stake If We Don’t Improve Social Mobility’

Anne Wicks & William McKenzie

The ‘A’ Word: Wicks & McKenzie — The 4 Things That Accountability Should Do Well

Anne Wicks & William McKenzie

The ‘A’ Word: Dustin Marshall — ‘It’s Shocking, Appalling, That There Are Arguments Made in Education That Data Is Bad’

Anne Wicks & William McKenzie

The ‘A’ Word: Gerard Robinson — ‘We Have Got to Get Rid of the Term “Accountability.” It’s Simply Too Toxic.’

Anne Wicks & William McKenzie

The ‘A’ Word: Kevin Huffman — ‘Parents Don’t Dislike Testing as Much as People Think They Do. They Hate Test Prep’

Anne Wicks & William McKenzie

The ‘A’ Word: Felicia Cumings Smith — ‘You Have to Lean Into the Messiness and Have Honest Conversations’

Anne Wicks & William McKenzie

The ‘A’ Word: Hanna Skandera — ‘I Am Not Anti-Union Until They Don’t Put Kids First’

Anne Wicks & William McKenzie

The ‘A’ Word: John King — ‘In Too Many Places, Underperformance Is Not Only Tolerated, but Assumed’

Anne Wicks & William McKenzie

The ‘A’ Word: Accountability — The Dirty Word of Today’s Education Reform

Anne Wicks & William McKenzie

The ‘A’ Word: Lizzette Reynolds — ‘Accountability Shouldn’t Be Considered a Way of Limiting a Child’s Progress’

Anne Wicks & William McKenzie

The ‘A’ Word: Margaret Spellings — ‘You Can’t Solve a Problem That You Don’t Diagnose Correctly, Fairly, Accurately, and Comparably’

Anne Wicks & William McKenzie