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Direct linkEdwards, Mark – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2012
In this article, the author describes their digital conversion initiative at Mooresville Graded School District. The project has placed a MacBook Air laptop in the hands of every 3rd through 12th grader and their teachers in the district over the past four years, with over 5,000 computers distributed. But they believe their academic successes have…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Indicators, Computers, Federal Programs
Peer reviewedPlecki, Margaret; Loeb, Hilary – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2004
Legislative and programmatic efforts to improve teacher quality have become a major focus of state policymaking in recent years. States have employed numerous strategies in response to concerns about the preparation, quantity, and capacity of the teacher workforce. In this chapter, the authors introduce conceptual frameworks for understanding…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Federal Legislation, Accountability, Educational Policy
Download full textPerez-Johnson, Irma; Decker, Paul – 2001
The Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998 requires that workforce investment areas establish individual training accounts (ITAs) that provide vouchers customers can use to pay for training. The United States Department of Labor is supporting the ITA experiment, during which new customers determined to be eligible for training will be randomly…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Counseling, Comparative Analysis, Delivery Systems
