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Chris Domaleski; Carla Evans – National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment, 2024
An advisory group representing a broad range of education leaders and experts from across the Commonwealth participated in the Massachusetts Accountability System Review Advisory Committee between December 2023 and June 2024. This document describes the work of the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) to engage…
Descriptors: Accountability, Advisory Committees, Elementary Secondary Education, State School District Relationship
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Howey, Kenneth R. – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2011
Innovation is often driven by crisis, and Rutter (2011) began her chapter by reminding everyone of the crisis confronting the United States in the early 1980s and how that provided impetus for the development of professional development schools (PDSs). In a complementary companion chapter, Neapolitan and Levine (2011) take the reader through…
Descriptors: Professional Development Schools, Professional Development, Educational History, Educational Development
Observatory on Borderless Higher Education, 2010
Last month, higher education company the Apollo Group, Inc. (Apollo) confirmed that it entered into an agreement with the United States (US) federal government to resolve a long-standing lawsuit concerning its subsidiary, the for-profit University of Phoenix (Phoenix). Originating in 2003, the False Claims Act lawsuit filed by university officials…
Descriptors: Federal Government, Student Recruitment, Higher Education, Court Litigation