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Download full textArmour-Garb, Allison, Ed. – Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, State University of New York, 2007
This volume contains an edited transcript of the Rockefeller Institute's October 29, 2007 symposium (Chicago, IL) entitled "Intergovernmental Approaches to Strengthen K-12 Accountability Systems" as well as a framework paper circulated in preparation for the symposium. The transcript begins with a list of the forty state and federal education…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Testing, Educational Change
Berryman, Sue E. – 1988
Changes in the American economy and in the nature and organization of work fundamentally challenge the educational system and have implications for the Federal Government's role. Case studies of the insurance, banking, and textile industries demonstrate the following changes in the nature and structure of work: (1) both service and manufacturing…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Economic Change, Economic Factors, Education Work Relationship
Romberg, Thomas A., Ed.; Stewart, Deborah M., Ed. – 1984
Papers presented for a conference on school mathematics are compiled in this document. The purpose of the conference was: (1) to identify new goals and needed change for school mathematics; and (2) to recommend strategies or describe scenarios whereby these goals and changes can be realized. The document summarizes the deliberations in 20 papers…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Educational Needs
Fisher, Evelyn – 1982
The papers from the 1982 conference on Pennsylvania's Long Range Plan for School Improvement (LRPSI) assist in constructing reality about LRPSI itself. Focusing on the program's registration phase, Charles Gorman offers an alternative proposal, linking registration and evaluation, that would contribute to improving schools and increasing public…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Change Agents, Community Support, Conference Papers
McDonnell, Lorraine M. – 1989
Poor educational performance and the changing nature of work and workers have prompted calls for a major restructuring of American schools. The following broad categories of restructuring options are discussed and supporting research is reviewed: (1) decentralizing authority over schooling through school-based management, more professional…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrative Organization, Change Strategies, Classroom Environment
Page, Stephen, Ed.; Shaw, Danielle, Ed. – Laboratory for Student Success (LSS), The Mid-Atlantic Regional Educational Laboratory, 2004
Beginners in many disciplines learn that correlation never proves causation, but sometimes, even in public health, correlation, mistaken for causation, becomes the basis for policy and great expenditures of public and private money. "True experiments" with random assignment to experimental and control groups hold a special place in the…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Teaching Methods, Federal Legislation, Statistical Studies
Hoag, Lydia, Ed. – Laboratory for Student Success (LSS), The Mid-Atlantic Regional Educational Laboratory, 2004
A growing number of American students are nonnative English speakers. These students are vulnerable to early school exit and schools are facing more and more such students each year. Presently, about 56% of all public school teachers in the United States have at least one English language learner (ELL) student in their class, but less than 20% of…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Second Language Learning, Politics of Education, Instructional Leadership
