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National Council for the Social Studies, 2021
Teaching students to act as citizens significantly enhances preparation for college and career. It is incumbent upon the National Council for the Social Studies to provide guidance to states and local districts to develop social studies standards to achieve this goal. The recommendations presented here focus on the principle that standards…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Citizenship Education, Academic Standards, State Departments of Education
Bethanie C. Pletcher; Tracy Harper – Texas Association for Literacy Education Yearbook, 2023
The Texas A&M University System recently developed six quality standards for educator preparation programs, the Texas A&M Quality Standards for Educator Preparation, that are to be implemented and met by all system schools. These standards are: quality of selection of teacher candidates; quality of content knowledge and teaching methods;…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Teacher Education, Field Experience Programs, Field Instruction
Zimmerman, Whitney; Altman, Barbara; Simunich, Bethany; Shattuck, Kay; Burch, Barbra – Online Learning, 2020
This study examined the relationship of intentional faculty professional development, intentional online course design, and informal course reviews to the results of official interinstitutional peer review within higher education institutions. Quality Matters[superscript TM] (QM) provided the setting for this exploration of the relationship of…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Course Evaluation, Educational Quality, Academic Standards
Forstag, Erin Hammers – National Academies Press, 2022
On October 14 and 15, and December 8, 2021, the Board on Science Education at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a virtual Summit entitled Taking Stock of Science Standards Implementation. Participants explored the landscape of state science standards implementation, identified where there have been successes and…
Descriptors: Science Education, Academic Standards, Program Implementation, State Standards
Wechsler, Marjorie E.; Kirp, David L. – Teachers College Press, 2018
This timely book will help policymakers and practitioners convert their visions of high-quality early education into on-the-ground reality by providing a much-needed, richly detailed look at how states can design, fund, and manage exemplary programs. The authors describe and analyze how four states--Michigan, West Virginia, Washington, and North…
Descriptors: Program Design, Program Implementation, Program Development, Preschool Curriculum
Staub, Donald – Quality in Higher Education, 2019
Globally, attention to quality and accreditation in higher education continues trending upward. This is attributable to a number of factors, such as the internationalisation of higher education, stakeholders demanding accountability, international rankings; parents and students wanting assurance that a diploma equals employment. Universities and…
Descriptors: Specialization, Accreditation (Institutions), Quality Assurance, Strategic Planning
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
Ibañez, Francisco; Plaza, Inmaculada; Igual, Raul; Medrano, Carlos; Arcega, Francisco – International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies, 2017
Quality and excellence are requirements that Society demands from universities. However, several questions arise in the real-world application of these concepts: How can they be incorporated into the classrooms or laboratories? What is the proper way to create a quality and innovation culture in daily teaching? In order to answer to these…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Instructional Innovation, Instructional Improvement, Educational Quality
Abankina, I.V. – Russian Education & Society, 2018
We consider issues surrounding the introduction of the federal educational standards in preschool education (FGOS DO) by analyzing data from a survey of directors and teachers at public and private kindergartens. The results show that teachers are well informed about the content of the new standards. They actively participate in professional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Standards, Academic Standards, Program Implementation
Pruitt, Stephen L. – Science Teacher, 2015
The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS Lead States 2013) were released almost two years ago. Work tied to the NGSS, their adoption, and implementation continues to move forward around the country. Stephen L. Pruitt, senior vice president, science, at Achieve, an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit education reform organization that was a lead…
Descriptors: Science Education, Academic Standards, Educational Quality, State Standards
Pollitt, Kelly; Leichty, Reg – American Institutes for Research, 2017
This interactive tool, initiated by the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP), is designed to guide principals in engaging with state and district leaders as they prepare to submit Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) consolidated plans and work over the coming years to implement the new law. This tool offers principals an…
Descriptors: Principals, Program Implementation, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation
Erkens, Cassandra – Solution Tree, 2015
Explore the practical steps teacher teams must take to establish clear, comprehensive assessment systems that guide instruction and strengthen PLCs. This book has the capacity to reignite passion and energy assessment practices bring as tools to guide teaching and learning. Strengthen instructional agility in professional learning communities with…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Educational Assessment, Educational Quality, Communities of Practice
New York State Education Department, 2018
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) provides federal funds to improve elementary and secondary education in the nation's schools. ESSA requires states and Local Educational Agencies (i.e., school districts and charter schools) to take a variety of actions to ensure that all children, regardless of race, socioeconomic status, gender, disability…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Educational Quality
Blanco-Ramirez, Gerardo – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2015
Quality practices in higher education involve more than mere compliance with standards and technical mandates; given the complexity of the decisions involved in quality in higher education, this concept, quality, can be analyzed as symbol and performance. This paper utilizes translation as heuristic to analyze the implementation of US…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accreditation (Institutions), Higher Education, Educational Quality
Blanco Ramírez, Gerardo; Jahirul Haque, H. M. – Quality in Higher Education, 2016
Private higher education is growing, especially in developing and transitioning countries. Rapid growth frequently comes with concerns about quality. This article explores challenges and opportunities for higher education quality among private universities in Bangladesh. By presenting a vertical case study that explores interactions among actors…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Colleges, Universities, Higher Education