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Region 11 Comprehensive Center, 2023
As part of a standards revision project for the state of Nebraska, the Region 11 Comprehensive Center in partnership with the American Institutes of Research, conducted a scan of publicly available state information and existing research on revision processes. From that, we've created this guide sharing 10 key elements states should consider when…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Revision (Written Composition), Policy Formation, Educational Policy
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Nichols, T. Philip; Edgerton, Adam Kirk; Desimone, Laura M. – American Journal of Education, 2021
Purpose: As the federal government has retreated from taking a dominant role in encouraging implementation of common K-12 standards, states and districts have moved to fill this education policy vacuum. This study aims to understand how state and district leaders are navigating this new policy environment. Research Methods/Approach: Drawing upon…
Descriptors: State Standards, Academic Standards, Program Implementation, Educational Legislation
Nichols, T. Philip; Edgerton, Adam Kirk; Desimone, Laura M. – Grantee Submission, 2021
Purpose: As the federal government has retreated from taking a dominant role in encouraging implementation of common K-12 standards, states and districts have moved to fill this education policy vacuum. This study aims to understand how state and district leaders are navigating this new policy environment. Research Methods/Approach: Drawing upon…
Descriptors: State Standards, Academic Standards, Program Implementation, Educational Legislation
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Kenji Hakuta; Sarah C. K. Moore – Language Policy, 2024
This paper describes the author's personal involvement with issues of policy and implementation that were sparked by the "Lau" decision. Topics included are student assessment, the bilingual education wars, the role of research, the paradigm shift with the advent of standards, and California state policy in the education of English…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Program Implementation, Court Litigation, Student Evaluation
Amy Stornaiuolo; Laura Desimone; Morgan Polikoff – American Educational Research Journal, 2023
This study examines implementation of college-and-career-ready (CCR) education standards across five school districts in Ohio, Texas, California, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts. Drawing on the policy attributes theory, we found that the specificity of districts' approaches to two long-recognized policy levers, curriculum and professional…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Academic Standards, College Readiness, Career Readiness
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Alla Khan; Anne Rowena David; Aizat Hisham Ahmad; Azril Ali; Salasiah Che Lah – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2023
The Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) for languages, which was originally meant for the European context is now being widely accepted by many non-European countries. The education system in Malaysia, as outlined in the English Language Education Roadmap for Malaysia (2015-2025), has adopted the framework. Although this has taken place…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, College Faculty
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Khanolainen, Daria – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2019
Purpose: In 2010, the Russian Federation began introducing the new educational standards as a national reform designed to improve education quality. This study aims to identify how teachers feel about the reform to evaluate its intermediate effects. Design/methodology/approach: The study took place in Tatarstan, one of the regions of Russia. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Academic Standards, Educational Change
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Ananga, Eric Daniel – Journal of Educational Issues, 2021
Ensuring high standards in the preparation of teachers is critical for the effective professional practice of the Ghanaian teacher. This study examines the National Teachers Standards (NTS) for teachers in Ghana with particular focus on the initial teacher education (ITE) programme, and how tutors and student teachers (mentees) apply the NTS.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Student Teachers, Tutors
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Daramola, Eupha Jeanne; Allbright, Taylor N.; Marsh, Julie A. – Teachers College Record, 2023
Background: In recent years, school districts have experienced a complex policy environment with myriad reforms aimed at addressing longstanding and historically entrenched disparities in opportunities and outcomes between racially minoritized students and White students. One such reform is standards-based accountability, with its emphasis on…
Descriptors: School Districts, School Policy, Educational Policy, Racism
Johnson, Amy F. – Center for Education Policy, Applied Research, and Evaluation, 2019
Nationally, over the past few decades, standards-based school reform has taken root as a policy initiative and instructional model. This has advanced the use of learning standards and aligned assessments as a mechanism to bring consistency and clarity to public school curriculum and instruction, with the intention of raising student achievement.…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Administrator Attitudes, Competency Based Education, State Standards
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Grapin, Scott E.; Lee, Okhee – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2022
In December 2020, the WIDA Consortium released the "WIDA English Language Development Standards Framework, 2020 Edition." In the coming years, the 2020 Edition will be implemented across 36 states, the District of Columbia, and four territories and agencies in the US. The 2020 Edition also arrives at a time when the field of TESOL is…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, English Language Learners, Equal Education
Domaleski, Chris; D'Brot, Juan; Keng, Leslie; Keglovits, Russ; Neal, Ann-Michelle – Council of Chief State School Officers, 2018
Most states have developed or revised school accountability systems in response to the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). While these systems include multiple indicators, to many stakeholders the outcome of central interest is the overall rating or classification produced for each school. These ratings are often used to identify schools that merit…
Descriptors: Accountability, Performance Based Assessment, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Criteria
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Na, Li; Gregory, Jolene Castillo; Téllez, Kip – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2021
Learning standards have become a prominent feature for schools and school systems worldwide. Our paper describes the development of recent English teaching standards in California, China, and Mexico, as well as analyzing them for their theoretical orientations. We begin with an overview and critique of the standards movement. Our analysis of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Academic Standards, Educational Change
Edgerton, Adam K. – Center on Standards, Alignment, Instruction, and Learning, 2019
Is the Common Core really "dead"? Though no longer called the Common Core in our three study states, the "new" college-and-career readiness standards still guide much of education policy in Texas, Ohio, and Kentucky. In our new feature article in "Educational Researcher," lead author Dr. Laura Desimone, along with…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, College Readiness, Career Readiness, Educational Policy
Nussle, Karen – American Enterprise Institute, 2019
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) began to take form when dozens of educators from across the country were led by governors and chief state school officers in gathering and reviewing the academic standards of states that had the best outcomes. Their goal was to determine what the current best academic standards were in the country and then…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, Social Development, Emotional Development, Educational Legislation
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