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Braun, Henry – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2011
The focus article "Road Maps for Learning: A Guide to the Navigation of Learning Progressions" by Black, Wilson, and Yao (this issue) is a veritable tour-de-force, covering a great deal of education ground while spanning the heights from models of the interplay among curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment to interpretations of student…
Descriptors: State Standards, Educational Change, Consortia, Accountability
Center for Public Policy Priorities, 2011
Expanding economic opportunity in Texas depends on our state's ability to increase the college graduation rate for the thousands of college freshmen arriving on campuses each year. The pending budget bills would hamper college access for thousands of Texans through severe cuts to successful financial aid programs, including TEXAS Grants (Towards…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Grants, College Freshmen, Graduation Rate
Ladner, Matthew – Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, 2011
Jeb Bush campaigned for governor on a clear and bracing set of education reforms in 1998. Having won office, he immediately pursued a dual-track strategy for reforming Florida's K-12 education system: standards and accountability for public schools, choice and options for parents. Florida lawmakers followed those reforms with additional measures.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Academic Achievement, National Competency Tests, Educational Change
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deFur, Sharon H. – Remedial and Special Education, 2002
This article discusses Virginia's efforts to implement new educational standards coupled with high-stakes assessments. Students with disabilities have been fully included in reform efforts and participation in the high-stakes assessment program has been relatively active. The focus on only academic skills to the exclusion of life skills is…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Access to Education, Daily Living Skills, Disabilities
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McGroarty, Daniel – Policy Review, 1994
Arguments for school vouchers are beginning to have a cumulative effect with gains in a number of states. The political power that holds Washington to the public school orthodoxy is weakening before state movements toward public school choice and charter schools. (SLD)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Economics, Educational Vouchers, Elementary Secondary Education
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Plecki, Margaret; Loeb, Hilary – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2004
Legislative and programmatic efforts to improve teacher quality have become a major focus of state policymaking in recent years. States have employed numerous strategies in response to concerns about the preparation, quantity, and capacity of the teacher workforce. In this chapter, the authors introduce conceptual frameworks for understanding…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Federal Legislation, Accountability, Educational Policy