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Download full textLashway, Larry – 1999
This digest in Spanish describes the key features of current accountability systems and explores their implications for administrators. It discusses various aspects of accountability systems, such as rigorous content standards and the alignment of professional development with standards and test results, and how these elements work together to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Accountability, Change Strategies
Lashway, Larry – 1999
This digest describes the key features of current accountability systems and explores their implications for administrators. It discusses various aspects of accountability systems, such as rigorous content standards and the alignment of professional development with standards and test results, and how these elements work together to improve…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Accountability, Change Strategies
Brown, Bettina Lankard – 1997
Quality system awards offer blueprints for assessing quality in vocational education as well as in business and industry. The three most prestigious awards recognizing quality improvement in business and industry are the Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award, Deming Application Prize, and ISO 9000 Registration. When comparing standards for the quality…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Quality, Job Skills, Postsecondary Education
Frauenknecht, Marianne – 2003
Comprehensive school health education (CSHE) can help youth obtain the greatest benefits from education and become healthy and productive adults. One child out of four has an emotional, social, or physical health limitation that interferes with learning. Because schools have the capacity to reach 53 million students every year for 12 years, they…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Comprehensive School Health Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
ERIC Clearinghouse for Junior Colleges, Los Angeles, CA. – 1984
Increased national attention to the quality of education has resulted in a more critical examination of the community college transfer function. This concern for transfer has been precipitated by several factors: (1) the declining percentage of community college students who transfer; (2) the growth of the community services, vocational, and…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Articulation (Education), College Transfer Students, Community Colleges
Donnelly, Margarita – 1987
Higher standards in public schools have made it necessary for educational reformers to identify at-risk students and to develop effective programs for preventing their failure. This pamphlet begins by delineating the characteristics of at-risk students and discussing evaluation instruments that are useful for identifying such students. Successful…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Academic Standards, Disadvantaged, Dropouts
