Nearly every high-priority item in national, federal, state, and local discussions about education--and policy proposals across the political spectrum--requires high-quality longitudinal data to inform its design, implementation, and evaluation. This factsheet shares Data Quality Campaign's (DQC's) analysis of what "Data for Action 2011:…

Principals in Indiana were asked to rate proposed guidelines for sex education programs on the basis of public acceptability and potential for implementation. Eighteen of 20 guidelines were rated capable of implementation with average difficulty or less. Individual guidelines and their ratings are given. (PP)

A plan was created for organizing and deriving the learning content of a multi-occupational, performance based vocational education (PBVE) Indiana high school auto mechanics program in vehicle repair. Three surveys were conducted. First, 498 businesses were surveyed to determine existing vehicle repair job titles in Indiana and ways to group these…

An Indiana project was designed to secure information necessary for defining and integrating components of an exemplary system for vocational education student recruitment and selection. The exploratory phase of the study involved an investigation of the definitions and processes of vocational education student recruitment and selection. It…