Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015

Why this matters here

The Every Student Succeeds Act’s accountability and state report-card provisions require districts and states to count proficiency and related indicators for school ratings. When Incentives Become the Moral Language uses that statutory machinery beside a classroom vignette: a real, documentable grade gain enters proficiency bands while temperamental growth—staying with hard problems, revising in public—never appears on the rubric. The book’s claim is that the score can be true and still capture only a fraction of what changed when incentives become the moral language of improvement.