Updates & Resources
News, project highlights, and insights from across the Central Comprehensive Center’s seven-state region.
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Kansas Leaders Collaborate to Ensure High-Quality Instruction for Students
Over the summer, a group of Kansas education leaders met to discuss how to better support high-quality instruction for elementary and secondary students.
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Video: Central CC Leadership Shares Examples of Current Work
Members of NORC’s Central Comprehensive Center team explain how we partner with education agencies in our seven Central region states to help
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Exploring the Accountability Side of Assessments
Can we structure accountability assessments to reduce test burden without reducing the validity and reliability of the assessments’ findings?
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Wyoming Strengthens School District Supports for Resource Allocation Reviews
Ensuring resources are spent wisely is a universal goal for state education agencies. The Wyoming Department of Education (WDE) is proactively strengthening its resource allocation review (RAR) process
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Exploring Within-Year Assessments
Within-year assessments aren’t one-size-fits-all. This slide deck explores the different purposes they serve and how each type supports educators and students.
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Central Comprehensive Center June 2026 Quarterly Highlights
The summer months have been full steam ahead across the Central Comprehensive Center region.
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Report: Considerations for Assessment Flexibility Approaches
The Central Comprehensive Center created this report to support informed decision-making on flexibility options for state assessments.
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Brief: Innovation in Assessment and Accountability Systems
This brief focuses on the design of assessment systems to enable measurement of student achievement and growth and support of instruction.
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Recipes for Success: Crafting an Effective State Assessment System
States, districts, and schools know that having high-quality data can be a game changer. Accurate data is used to pinpoint areas for improvement and showcase areas of success.
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Innovating State Assessments: Getting It All Right
With encouragement from the federal government, many state education agencies are asking a common question: Is it time to rethink how we test our students?