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Jenna Howard Terrell; Robin Ahigian; Morgan Garvey; Sarah Barzee – WestEd, 2025
With constantly changing needs in a global economy, more flexibility in educational accountability for states and districts, and a focus on high standards for all students, state educational agencies (SEAs) and local educational agencies (LEAs) are increasingly defining what skills, competencies, and knowledge graduates should have by developing a…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Profiles, Graduation Requirements, Student Development
National Council for the Social Studies, 2021
Teaching students to act as citizens significantly enhances preparation for college and career. It is incumbent upon the National Council for the Social Studies to provide guidance to states and local districts to develop social studies standards to achieve this goal. The recommendations presented here focus on the principle that standards…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Citizenship Education, Academic Standards, State Departments of Education
Huguet, Alice; Pane, John F.; Baker, Garrett; Hamilton, Laura S.; Faxon-Mills, Susannah – RAND Corporation, 2021
Media literacy (ML) education has emerged as a promising approach to slowing the spread of "Truth Decay," described as the diminishing role that facts, data, and analysis play in political and civil discourse. Several factors contribute to Truth Decay, including a rapidly evolving information ecosystem and overburdened educational…
Descriptors: Media Literacy, Program Implementation, Program Evaluation, Teaching Methods
Nowicki, Jacqueline M. – US Government Accountability Office, 2022
Senate Report 117-39 and House Report 117-118 include provisions for Government Accountability Office (GAO) to assess professional learning at the Department of Defense Education Activity (DODEA) schools. This report describes: DODEA's professional learning approach, results of DODEA teacher surveys, and how DODEA has addressed barriers teachers…
Descriptors: Military Personnel, Military Schools, Military Training, Military Service
Tyler, Burr; Iveland, Ashley; Nilsen, Katy; Britton, Ted; Nguyen, Kimberly; Estrella, Denise; Arnett, Elizabeth – WestEd, 2019
This evaluation report describes a central professional learning strategy that the California NGSS Early Implementers Initiative used to help teachers effectively transition to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). The Initiative's approach to lesson study, called a Teaching Learning Collaborative (TLC), brings together teams of teachers…
Descriptors: Teacher Improvement, Teacher Collaboration, Academic Standards, Science Education
Tyler, Burr; Britton, Ted – WestEd, 2018
The K-8 Early Implementers Initiative has found that careful planning is critical. With thin planning, unexpected detours or dead ends are likely. However, with solid planning, districts are more likely to achieve their implementation goals and may discover some express lanes for their implementation journey. This evaluation report documents…
Descriptors: National Standards, Academic Standards, Science Education, Program Implementation
Iveland, Ashley; Tyler, Burr; Britton, Ted; Nguyen, Kimberly; Schneider, Steve – WestEd, 2017
NGSS Early Implementers is a four-year initiative created to help eight California school districts and two charter management organizations, supported by WestEd's K-12 Alliance, implement the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). This evaluation report describes how site and district administrators are making critical contributions to the…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Science Education, Program Implementation, State Standards
Leo, Sheri Frost; Coggshall, Jane G. – Center on Great Teachers and Leaders, 2013
This Special Issues Brief from the "Center on Great Teachers and Leaders" (GTL Center) introduces an approach to creating coherence among three potentially transformative instructional reforms: implementation of the Common Core State Standards for student learning, new standards-based teacher evaluation systems, and job-embedded…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, State Standards, Alignment (Education), Core Curriculum
Best, Jane; Dunlap, Allison – McREL International, 2014
This policy brief provides an overview of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), discusses policy considerations for adopting or adapting the new standards, and presents examples from states considering or implementing the NGSS. Changing academic standards is a complex process that requires significant investments of time, money, and human…
Descriptors: Science Education, Academic Standards, State Standards, Program Implementation
Beaver, Jessica K.; Reumann-Moore, Rebecca – Research For Action, 2014
As of the writing of this report, the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are being implemented in 45 states and the District of Columbia. Approaches to implementing the standards, however, are highly varied. For the past 3 years, Research For Action (RFA) has been tracking how one approach to implementing the literacy standards--the Literacy…
Descriptors: State Standards, Academic Standards, Alignment (Education), Best Practices
Achieve, Inc., 2011
To date, 44 states and the District of Columbia have adopted the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Achieve has prepared this planning document to help all states in the American Diploma Project Network (ADP) and the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) consortium engage educators in the essential work of…
Descriptors: State Standards, Instructional Materials, Elementary Secondary Education, Academic Standards
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Onsman, Andrys – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2010
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has invested heavily in its social sector, especially in setting up new schools and universities. The aim of the development is to prepare the Kingdom for a future that is not dependent on its oil resources which are predicted to run out in less than a hundred years. Driven by the country's monarch, King Abdullah, many…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Management Systems, Foreign Countries, Barriers
Partnership for 21st Century Skills, 2011
Standards drive critical elements of the American educational system--the curricula that schools follow, the textbooks students read, and the tests they take. Similarly, standards establish the levels of performance that students, teachers and schools are expected to meet. To succeed in the 21st century, all students will need to perform to high…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Academic Standards, State Standards, Alignment (Education)
Gonzalez, Gabriella; Le, Vi-Nhuan; Broer, Markus; Mariano, Louis T.; Froemel, J. Enrique; Goldman, Charles A.; DaVanzo, Julie – RAND Corporation, 2009
Analysis of Qatar's standards-based student assessment system, the first in the region, offers several lessons for other nations instituting similar reforms. These include the need to coordinate on standards and assessment development, allow sufficient time for a fully aligned assessment, and communicate about the purposes and uses of testing.…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Educational Testing, Foreign Countries, Special Needs Students
Achieve, Inc., 2009
To give states the information they need to sustain hard-fought education reform effectively, Achieve conducted research on state education reforms that have been sustained successfully for over a decade or more. Funded by the GE Foundation, Achieve hopes this work will help other state leaders, wherever they may be on their road to reform,…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Case Studies, Sustainability, Educational Strategies
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