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Anne Wicks; Robin Berkley – George W. Bush Institute, 2025
A well-designed accountability policy has four essential elements: (1) it's grounded in the belief that all students can learn and succeed; (2) it measures the academic progress of all students by campus and district over time; (3) it highlights gaps between different groups of students; and (4) it provides support and assigns consequences to…
Descriptors: Public Schools, School Effectiveness, School Policy, Educational Policy
Marisol Cuellar Mejia; Cesar Alesi Perez; Sidronio Jacobo; Fernando Garcia; Olga Rodriguez; Vicki Hsieh – Public Policy Institute of California, 2023
For years, the vast majority of California's community college students had to take remedial courses that slowed down or halted their academic progress. In 2019, Assembly Bill (AB) 705 removed many of these barriers, making it much easier for students to access and complete gateway transfer-level courses in English and math--a key early milestone…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Access to Education, Academic Achievement, Progress Monitoring
Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd), 2024
A Comprehensive early literacy policy establishes support and intensive reading interventions for K-3 students to ensure they read on grade level by the end of 3rd grade. The policy also requires 3rd grade students to demonstrate sufficient reading skills for promotion to 4th grade. For students severely below grade level and who do not qualify…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Educational Policy, Kindergarten, Grade 1
Nancy Montes; Fernanda Luna – UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning, 2024
This article characterizes and reflects on the possible uses of early warning systems (hereafter, EWS) in the region as effective tools to support educational pathways, whenever they identify risks of dropout, difficulties for the achievement of substantive learning, and the possibility of organizing specific actions. This article was developed in…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Use, At Risk Students, Foreign Countries
Cedefop - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, 2020
European policies on international mobility of students in initial vocational education and training (IVET) are working but more is needed. Young people in IVET today have more opportunities to do part of their training abroad than their peers of a decade ago. In most European Union (EU) Member States they tend to receive better information,…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Educational Policy, Study Abroad, Student Mobility
Wicks, Anne; Taylor-Raymond, Justine – George W. Bush Institute, 2023
It is clear that young people bore the brunt of the pandemic's impact. Disrupted learning, sometimes stretching for two years, forced many students off track and behind academically. Leaders are now faced an unprecedented need to make smart investments with federal relief funds in efforts that accelerate student learning. District leaders should…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid
Data Quality Campaign, 2020
School closures resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic have left educators and families with the responsibility of rapidly learning how to support students while they are at home. This fundamental shift in the way most students receive instruction makes it critical for educators and families to be able to use data to meet students where they are and…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Student Records, COVID-19, Pandemics
Texas Education Agency, 2021
The Texas Education Agency (TEA) prepares an annual report on graduates and dropouts in Texas public secondary schools. This report includes state summaries of the annual dropout rate, longitudinal graduation and dropout rates, and state attrition rates. In addition to statewide statistics, the report provides historical information about dropout…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Dropouts, Dropout Rate, Graduation Rate
Lieberman, Abbie – New America, 2019
In 2010, Illinois passed legislation making significant changes to its principal preparation and licensure policies. With the goal of improving student outcomes and closing achievement gaps, the state updated standards for principal preparation programs with a focus on instructional leadership. Illinois's reforms were ambitious, requiring all…
Descriptors: Principals, Management Development, Preschool Education, Administrator Qualifications
Ruedel, Kristin; Nelson, Gena; Bailey, Tessie – National Center for Systemic Improvement at WestEd, 2017
Many states struggle with collecting reliable and valid data that can be easily analyzed at the state level. This can be particularly challenging in states where schools and districts have local control over the selection of their assessment tools. This state spotlight presents the strategies that the Iowa Department of Education (IDE) used to…
Descriptors: Data Use, Data Collection, State Policy, Educational Policy
Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd), 2020
The goal of a Comprehensive K-3 Reading Policy is to ensure all students read on grade level by the end of third grade. A comprehensive policy ensures early identification of struggling readers and establishes intensive reading intervention for K-3 students who need more support to become successful readers. The policy focuses on demonstrated…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Educational Policy, Reading Instruction, Primary Education
Fox, Lauren; Wagner, Lindsay – Public School Forum of North Carolina, 2020
For more than twenty-five years, the Public School Forum of North Carolina has published an annual list of the top issues that they believe should or will likely be at the forefront of conversations around K-12 public education policy in the upcoming year. They intend for these publications, compiled through engagement with staff, board members,…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Policy, Educational Finance
Texas Education Agency, 2023
The Texas Education Agency (TEA) prepares an annual report on graduates and dropouts in Texas public secondary schools. This report includes state summaries of the annual dropout rate, longitudinal graduation and dropout rates, and state attrition rates. In addition to statewide statistics, the report provides historical information about dropout…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Dropouts, Dropout Rate, Graduation Rate
OECD Publishing, 2017
The PISA for Development brief series is a set of concise monthly education policy-oriented notes published by the OECD which are designed to describe a specific PISA for Development topic. In this brief, PISA's role in monitoring the fourth United Nations Sustainable Development Goal--to "ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students
Bottoms, Gene; Sundell, Kirsten – Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2017
This publication explores how state accountability systems currently address college readiness and academic and technical career readiness and offers recommendations and examples of policies and practices that incentivize and reward districts and schools for preparing more students to earn credentials and degrees in high-demand career fields.
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, Accountability, Educational Policy
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