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Download full textFoundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd), 2022
The expansion of student opportunity through the flexible spending of Education Scholarship Accounts (ESAs) builds in direct accountability to the parents who choose and hold the power of the purse. Families can select different schools and service providers if they are dissatisfied with how their student is faring. But ESAs can also be designed…
Descriptors: Educational Vouchers, Accountability, Standardized Tests, Academic Achievement
Direct linkZinth, Jennifer Dounay – Education Commission of the States (NJ3), 2012
This report identifies the states with current or pending state-level end-of-course assessment (EOC) programs, the subjects in which EOCs are administered in the states, and the EOCs (if any) students must pass to graduate from high school. Twenty-two states currently administer one or more EOCs to all students in an EOC course. This number will…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, State Standards, State Regulation, State Surveys
Gewertz, Catherine – Education Week, 2007
Texas, which has helped shape key tenets of the standards and accountability movement, is on the brink of revamping the way it assesses high school students for graduation. Instead of testing knowledge that students accumulate over several years, the state would test what students learn in each course. A bill passed by the Texas Senate last month…
Descriptors: Exit Examinations, High School Students, Student Evaluation, Testing Programs
Butler, E. Dean – 1988
The process of development of tests for teacher certification in Tennessee is described. In response to the Tennessee Comprehensive Education Reform Act of 1984 requiring the use of tests for individuals seeking initial teacher licensure, the Department of Education identified 12 areas of teacher endorsement for which no currently validated and…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Content Analysis, Higher Education, Item Banks
Van Allen, George H.; Belew, Valerie S. – 1992
Following a 1984 study revealing the limited preparation of its entering college freshmen, the Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR) intervened dramatically on behalf of underprepared students, providing enhanced funding for remedial courses and requiring that students complete remediation before enrolling in any degree program. Based on their…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Budgets, Community Colleges, Educational Finance
Ray, John R.; Bowman, Harry L. – 1988
The licensure of public school personnel in Tennessee is a function of the State Department of Education (SDE). Additional requirements for this certification function were added by the Comprehensive Education Reform Act (Senate Bill Number 1) of the 1984 Tennessee General Assembly. The Act mandated that the SDE use tests to assess the competence…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Communication Skills, Higher Education, Item Banks
