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Kenji Hakuta; Sarah C. K. Moore – Language Policy, 2024
This paper describes the author's personal involvement with issues of policy and implementation that were sparked by the "Lau" decision. Topics included are student assessment, the bilingual education wars, the role of research, the paradigm shift with the advent of standards, and California state policy in the education of English…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Program Implementation, Court Litigation, Student Evaluation
Amy Stornaiuolo; Laura Desimone; Morgan Polikoff – American Educational Research Journal, 2023
This study examines implementation of college-and-career-ready (CCR) education standards across five school districts in Ohio, Texas, California, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts. Drawing on the policy attributes theory, we found that the specificity of districts' approaches to two long-recognized policy levers, curriculum and professional…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Academic Standards, College Readiness, Career Readiness
Center on Standards and Assessments Implementation, 2019
As a way to increase student engagement and encourage students to connect to their learning, some states have begun efforts to incorporate ethnic studies into state content standards. Ethnic studies standards focus on the "knowledge and perspectives of an ethnic or racial group, reflecting narratives and points of view rooted in that group's…
Descriptors: Ethnic Studies, Academic Standards, State Standards, State Programs
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Na, Li; Gregory, Jolene Castillo; Téllez, Kip – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2021
Learning standards have become a prominent feature for schools and school systems worldwide. Our paper describes the development of recent English teaching standards in California, China, and Mexico, as well as analyzing them for their theoretical orientations. We begin with an overview and critique of the standards movement. Our analysis of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Academic Standards, Educational Change
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Pak, Katie; McLaughlin, Jillian; Saldívar García, Erica; Desimone, Laura M. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2021
The current context of standards-based reform has positioned regional service centers (RSCs), intermediary governmental agencies that support state policy implementation in local districts, as a critical source of professional development (PD). In this article, we ask how a governing body that districts often interact with during challenging…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Academic Standards, State Standards, Education Service Centers
Pak, Katie; McLaughlin, Jillian; Saldivar Garcia, Erica; Desimone, Laura M. – Grantee Submission, 2021
The current context of standards-based reform has positioned regional service centers (RSCs), intermediary governmental agencies that support state policy implementation in local districts, as a critical source of professional development (PD). In this article, we ask how a governing body that districts often interact with during challenging…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Academic Standards, State Standards, Education Service Centers
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
Kim Luttgen; Kevin Huang; Eunice Chow; Shuangting Yang; Linlin Li – Grantee Submission, 2024
Rural students often face challenges in receiving high-quality education in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Yet without meaningful STEM educational opportunities, rural students might not develop the knowledge and skills needed to compete in a technology-driven workforce. The Learning by Making program (LbyM), an innovative…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, STEM Education, Educational Innovation, Achievement Gap
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
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Pak, Katie; Desimone, Laura M.; Parsons, Arianna – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2020
Though scholars agree that professional development (PD) is a key mechanism for implementing education policies that call for teacher change, and that PD generally needs to be content-focused, active, collaborative, coherent, and sustained, the application of this framework has yielded mixed results. In this qualitative study, we employed…
Descriptors: Professional Development, School Districts, Educational Policy, Academic Standards
Segovia, Merianne – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in ELA/literacy call for increased rigor, close reading of complex texts, evidence-based argumentation in academic English, and collaborative conversations. For English language learners (ELLs), achieving the standards requires that they double their efforts to simultaneously learn both academic English and…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, Academic Standards, Program Implementation, English Language Learners
Tyler, Burr; Britton, Ted; Iveland, Ashley; Valcarcel, Joshua; Schneider, Steve – WestEd, 2016
This first Early Implementers Initiative evaluation publication discusses one of the major shifts required by the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), namely the shift to integrated instruction. The integration of science and English language arts (ELA) is the focus of the first main section, and the integration of the science disciplines…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Middle Schools, Science Instruction, Interdisciplinary Approach
American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO), 2015
The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium is one of two multi-state consortia that have built new assessment systems aligned to the Common Core State Standards. The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium is composed of 18 states and the U.S. Virgin Islands that have worked together to develop a comprehensive assessment system aligned to the…
Descriptors: Summative Evaluation, Formative Evaluation, Educational Assessment, College Readiness
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Affeldt, John T. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2015
California is in the midst of the nation's most significant current overhaul of a state school funding and accountability system. This paper examines the state's recent reforms enacted through the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) against the new accountability framework articulated by Linda Darling-Hammond, Gene Wilhoit, and Linda Pittenger in…
Descriptors: Accountability, School District Autonomy, Educational Change, Alignment (Education)
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