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Direct linkMuzzo, Maria – ProQuest LLC, 2018
One stated purpose for the use of the edTPA is to guide teacher preparation program improvement (Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity, 2013). The Washington State Legislature included teacher preparation program reform on its agenda, and requested that the Professional Educator Standards Board identify ways in which the edTPA…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Alignment (Education), Educational Policy, Program Improvement
Download full textWashington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, 2020
The Student Achievement Initiative (SAI) is the guiding framework for the Washington state community and technical college system's goals for student success. SAI emphasizes student momentum for college success by both building college readiness (such as basic skills gains and completion of precollege education, sometimes known as developmental…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, State Policy, Educational Policy, Community Colleges
Peer reviewedJoseph, AnnRené – International Dialogues on Education: Past and Present, 2020
The future of arts education is at stake. This paper attempts to examine the future of arts education via the responses of a qualitative survey, student samples, individual interviews, and research regarding arts education as essential education for all learners during a pandemic and beyond. The sudden decree that all attendance at public and…
Descriptors: Art Education, Pandemics, COVID-19, Student Attitudes
Hillman, Nicholas W.; Tandberg, David A.; Fryar, Alisa H. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2015
In 2007, Washington adopted the Student Achievement Initiative, a statewide performance accountability system designed to improve retention rates and degree productivity among community colleges. Using difference-in-differences analysis, we found that the policy change has had little immediate effect on retention rates or associate's degree…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Higher Education, Accountability, Community Colleges
Au, Wayne – Rethinking Schools, 2013
This author explains why he believes that teacher education is under attack. The same forces that are seeking to dismantle teachers' unions and de-professionalize teaching have their sights set on university-based teacher education programs. After all, logic decrees that if teachers are to blame for educational inequality--as corporate education…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Performance Based Assessment, Testing Problems, Educational Change
Meuwissen, Kevin W.; Choppin, Jeffrey M. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2015
The edTPA is a teaching performance assessment (TPA) that the states of New York and Washington implemented as a licensure requirement in 2013. While TPAs are not new modes of assessment, New York and Washington are the first states to use the edTPA specifically as a compulsory, high-stakes policy lever in an effort to strengthen the quality and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Evaluation, Performance Based Assessment, Teacher Certification
Cummins, H. J. – Wallace Foundation, 2013
What happens when teams from 57 cities building afterschool systems gather to discuss two key system responsibilities--improving afterschool programs and using data for informed decision-making? Lots of rich discussion. This report covers a national afterschool conference held in February 2013. It details what mayors, program providers, system…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Decision Making Skills, Management Information Systems, After School Programs
Hill, Paul Thomas; Lake, Robin J. – Brookings Papers on Education Policy, 2002
In the early 1990s, Washington State was in the vanguard of the standards movement. By 1994, the National Business Roundtable rated Washington as one of four states that had enacted the most complete standards-based reform program. Washington political and business leaders intended to transform public education from a bureaucracy controlled by…
Descriptors: Public Education, Academic Standards, State Standards, Educational Change
Harding, Edie; McLain, Barbara; Anderson, Sue – 1999
In 1998, the Board of Directors for the Washington State Institute for Public Policy directed staff to study teacher quality. The Institute examined three teacher preparation and development programs covering the early stages of teachers' careers: pre-service teacher preparation, beginning teacher assistance, and professional certification.…
Descriptors: Beginning Teacher Induction, Beginning Teachers, Educational Change, Educational Policy
