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Regional Educational Laboratory Northwest, 2020
In 2014 the Washington state legislature approved career- and college-ready (CCR) requirements for high school graduation that better align with admissions standards at the state's public universities than previous requirements did and that aim to equip students with the skills to pursue the career of their choice. The requirements took effect for…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Career Readiness, College Readiness, Graduation Requirements
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Lochmiller, Chad R.; Mancinelli, John L. – International Journal of Educational Management, 2019
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe how elementary school principals adjust their leadership practice in response to Washington's new teacher evaluation policy. Design/methodology/approach: The authors conducted a modified content analysis of open-ended survey responses collected from elementary school principals in Washington State.…
Descriptors: Principals, Instructional Leadership, Teacher Evaluation, State Policy
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Hanson, Havala; Fantz, Traci – Regional Educational Laboratory Northwest, 2020
In 2014 the Washington state legislature approved career- and college-ready (CCR) requirements for high school graduation that better align with career pathways and with admissions standards at the state's public universities than previous requirements did. The CCR requirements increased the total number of credits needed to graduate, from 20 to…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Career Readiness, College Readiness, Graduation Requirements
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Regional Educational Laboratory Northwest, 2020
These are the appendixes for the report, "Implementation of Career- and College-Ready Requirements for High School Graduation in Washington" (ED606463). The study looked at differences in the percentages of 2018 graduates who met the requirements and of 2018 graduates who did not across student groups (by socioeconomic status, English…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Career Readiness, College Readiness, Graduation Requirements
Zellman, Gail L.; Brandon, Richard N.; Boller, Kimberly; Kreader, J. Lee – Administration for Children & Families, 2011
It is important to evaluate Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRISs) so that policy makers and stakeholders can learn how well they are working and how they might be improved. Well-designed QRIS evaluations go beyond a "pass/fail" judgment to identify implementation successes and problems and assess what needs to be done to improve…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Educational Improvement, Educational Assessment, Early Childhood Education
Shulock, Nancy; Jenkins, Davis – Community College Research Center, Columbia University, 2011
Amid growing signs of America's weakening position in the global economy, federal and state policymakers and major foundations have set ambitious goals for increasing postsecondary attainment in the United States. Given changing U.S. demographics, it has become clear that these national goals are attainable only with vastly improved outcomes among…
Descriptors: Productivity, Technical Institutes, Community Colleges, Academic Achievement
Washington Office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Olympia. – 1997
The Washington state School-to-Work (STW) All Students/Special Populations Work Group developed a set of criteria to ensure equity in access, outreach, participation, and treatment for all students in the STW system. "All students and special populations" encompasses both male and female students; disadvantaged students with diverse…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Diversity (Student), Education Work Relationship, Educational Policy
Smith, Nick L., Ed.; Caulley, Darrel N., Ed. – 1982
The nature of educational evaluation and its interaction with policy in six state departments of education is examined. Case reports of research and evaluation units are presented for Virginia (by Gerald W. Bracey), Michigan (by David L. Donovan and Stanley A. Rumbaugh), Washington (by Alfred F. Rasp, Jr.), South Carolina (by Paul D. Sandifer),…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Assessment, Educational Innovation, Educational Policy