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Direct linkScherer, Ethan – RAND Corporation, 2014
It has long been thought that the United States education system is the great equalizer, lifting less advantaged children out of poverty and improving their chances for success in adulthood. The opportunity for economic and social mobility depends heavily, however, on access to high quality education. Recent research has raised concerns about…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Poverty, Academic Achievement, Accountability
Perie, Marianne, Ed. – Brookes Publishing Company, 2010
For lower-achieving students with disabilities, effective and appropriate alternate assessment based on modified achievement standards (AA-MAS) can open the door to greater expectations and opportunities. State policymakers have the option of providing certain students who have disabilities with AA-MAS aligned with grade-level content--and now…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Low Achievement, Disabilities, Academic Standards
Download full textLoveless, Tom; Parkas, Steve; Duffett, Ann – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2008
This report contains two separate studies examining the status of high-achieving students in the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) era. Part I, An Analysis of NAEP Data, authored by Brookings Institution scholar Tom Loveless, examines achievement trends for high-achieving students (defined, like low-achieving students, by their performance on the…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Low Achievement, Academic Achievement, Teacher Surveys
North Carolina State Department of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Instructional and Accountability Services. – 2000
Before adoption of the Student Accountability Standards on April 1, 1999, the North Carolina State Board of Education and Department of Public Instruction were working with low-performing schools to improve student achievement, both in mandated and voluntary assistance. Many K-8 schools have made exemplary progress in helping all students reach…
Descriptors: Accountability, Achievement Gains, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Smiles, Robin, Ed. – Education Sector, 2010
This fourth edition of the "ES Review" brings together, in one setting, some of the best work from 2009-10. It features: (1) Teacher Quality (Teachers at Work: Improving Teacher Quality Through School Design (Elena Silva); Understanding Teachers Contracts (Andrew J. Rotherham); How Teachers Unions Lost the Media (Richard Whitmire and…
Descriptors: Teacher Competencies, Educational Quality, Contracts, Unions
Cibulka, James G., Ed.; Boyd, William Lowe, Ed. – 2003
This collection of papers presents three approaches to urban educational reform. After "Introduction--Urban Education Reform: Competing Approaches" (James G. Cibulka and William Lowe Byrd), Part 1, "Systems Reforms of Urban School Systems," includes (1) "Accountability at the Improv: Brief Sketches of School Reform in Los…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid
