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Council of the Great City Schools, 2015
This report measures trends in performance among urban schools receiving federal School Improvement Grant (SIG) awards as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). The Council of the Great City Schools aims to document how member districts of the Council of the Great City Schools implemented SIG and specifically what…
Descriptors: Grants, Federal Legislation, Federal Aid, Educational Improvement
Minnema, Jane E.; Thurlow, Martha L.; Moen, Ross E.; VanGetson, Gretchen R. – National Center on Educational Outcomes, University of Minnesota, 2004
The present study was initiated to gather information about states' out-of-level testing practices. Specifically, we wanted to see whether states attempted to align out-of-level tests with grade of enrollment content standards, what processes are used to complete this task, and what psychometric information states offer as evidence of that…
Descriptors: Instructional Program Divisions, Testing Accommodations, Student Evaluation, State Government