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Download full textReedy, Kristen; Lacireno-Paquet, Natalie – WestEd, 2015
Implementation of multi-tier system of supports (MTSS) has grown rapidly in Kansas and is a key strategy for turning around low-performing schools in the state. MTSS is designed to improve outcomes for all students by instituting system-level change across the classroom, school, district, and state. Such systemic change is accomplished by…
Descriptors: Educational Change, School Turnaround, Program Implementation, Fidelity
Chapman, Anne; Keyes, Maddie; Schmidt, Jeff – Public Policy Forum, 2017
Our 32nd annual report analyzing data from southeast Wisconsin's public school districts finds progress on some college readiness indicators and largely positive showings on district report cards. Those results are offset, however, by discouraging results on standardized tests and continued substantial achievement gaps between students of…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Demography, Academic Achievement, Educational Finance
Miron, Gary; Urschel, Jessica – Education Policy Research Unit, 2009
This is the second "Profiles" report to examine nonprofit education management organizations (EMOs). This report is modeled after the 11 annual "Profiles" that cover for-profit EMOs. While the number of schools operated by for-profit EMOs grew rapidly in the 1990s and is now leveling off, the number of schools operated by nonprofit EMOs has been…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Profiles, Nonprofit Organizations, State Surveys
National Council on Teacher Quality, 2010
This paper is the National Council on Teacher Quality's (NCTQ) fourth annual review of state laws, rules and regulations that govern the teaching profession. This year's "Yearbook" takes a different approach than the past editions, as it is designed as a companion to the 2009 "State Teacher Policy Yearbook", NCTQ's most recent…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Policy, Teacher Evaluation
Johnson, Eugene G.; And Others – 1992
The 1990 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) monitored the performance of students in American schools in the subject areas of reading, mathematics, science, and writing. The sample involved more than 146,000 public- and private-school students who were 9-, 13-, or 17-years old or in grades 4, 8, 11, or 12. The purpose of the report…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Direct linkSt. John, Mark – Inverness Research, 2007
This is a presentation made by the author to the staff of the members of the United States House of Representatives who are part of the STEM Caucus (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education Caucus). The briefing was held in the Rayburn Office Building in Washington, DC on July 27, 2007. Also presenting were Harold Pratt and Dr.…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Federal Aid, Science Education, Educational Improvement
Birzea, Cesar; And Others – 1993
This document analyzes the Romanian education system since the political changes of 1989. The objectives of the report are: (1) the analysis of the education condition, insisting on the obstructions that prevent the starting of the reform itself; (2) the analysis of the main developments in the educational system in the first three ears of the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Objectives, Educational Planning, Educational Research
1986
This report documents the impact of current educational reform movements and fiscal conservatism on urban school districts and profiles district operations and activities using survey results from 61 urban school districts constituting 84% of the National School Boards Association Council of Urban Boards of Education. The statistical data falls…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Educational Change, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
California Community Colleges, Sacramento. Office of the Chancellor. – 1985
Designed to help those who plan and allocate resources for California's community colleges in evaluating future trends and identifying responsible policy directions, this report seeks to: (1) describe present and future trends and their variations within California; (2) determine the applications of those trends for community colleges; (3)…
Descriptors: College Planning, Community Colleges, Demography, Educational Change
Vernez, Georges; Karam, Rita; Mariano, Louis T.; DeMartini, Christine – RAND Corporation, 2006
This study was designed to fill the "implementation measurement" gap. A methodology to quantitatively measure the level of Comprehensive School Reform (CSR) implementation that can be used across a variety of CSR models was developed, and then applied to measure actual implementation of four different CSR models in a large number of schools. The…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Teaching Methods, School Restructuring, Parent Participation
Andersen, Charles J., Comp. – 1998
This volume of data on higher education highlights trends over the past 20 years, with some data traced back to the 1930s. The data was obtained from both government and nongovernment sources, including especially the U.S. Department of Education, the Bureau of the Census, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the National Science Foundation, and is…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Degrees (Academic), Demography, Educational Change
Business Roundtable, New York, NY. – 1991
This paper examines: (1) what those who directly employ and educate America's students after they leave high school think of the quality of the U.S. elementary and secondary schools; (2) what recent students and their parents think of the quality of the education they or their children received; and (3) what a cross section of Americans think…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Educational Needs
Achilles, C. M.; DuVall, Lloyd – 1983
Pupils at three elementary schools and one junior high school among Area 1 inner-city schools of St. Louis Missouri, were identified as scoring well below norms on standardized tests. An effort to change the educational programs at these schools netted financial support and the creation of Project SHAL (named for the schools involved). Inservice…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Testing, Educational Change
Boeck, Debora – Washington State School Directors' Association (NJ1), 2002
This guide presents some of the best thinking about the difficult and puzzling work of improving student achievement. Taken as whole, it gives a complete picture of what it will take to close the achievement gap. It contains background, findings, and key policy recommendations from a 22-month study conducted by the Washington State School…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Academic Achievement, Administrator Guides, Administrative Principles
