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Sees, Jennifer – Odyssey: New Directions in Deaf Education, 2012
At the beginning of the 2011-2012 school year, the Alaska State School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (ASSDHH) was informed that they had met Alaska's Annual Yearly Progress as required by No Child Left Behind (NCLB) for the first time ever. This was incredibly exciting and worth celebrating since teachers had invested so much "blood,…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Partial Hearing, Educational Technology, Achievement Gains
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Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2011
The state's Race to the Top (RTT) application requires changes to the state's evaluation/accountability system. It requires a teacher effectiveness measure, district effectiveness measure, leader effectiveness measure. Regarding the teacher effectiveness measure, RTT requires linking the data of individual students to individual teachers as part…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Teacher Effectiveness, Accountability, Evidence
Sturgis, Chris; Patrick, Susan – International Association for K-12 Online Learning, 2010
This exploration into competency-based innovation at the school, district, and state levels suggests that competency-based pathways are a re-engineering of this nation's education system around learning--a re-engineering designed for success in which failure is no longer viable. This discussion draws on interviews and site visits with innovators…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Competence, Educational Innovation, Interviews
Buell, Nancy – 1992
Compiled from interviews with people involved in various innovative assessment projects in Alaska, this report records the effects on assessment practices of grants from the Alaska Department of Education to school districts and individual teachers during the 1991-92 academic year. After a brief introduction, the report describes assessment…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Educational Finance, Educational Innovation
Aldous, Myrtle, Ed.; And Others – 1974
In an effort to pool information on the working operations of Indian teacher education programs in Canada and parts of the United States, a conference on Native teacher education was held in mid-October 1973 at Saskatoon. Nine programs sent delegates, including the University of Alaska, University of Alberta, Brandon University (Manitoba),…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Education, Canada Natives, Course Content
Christian, Donna; Mahrer, Cindy – 1992
The first annual supplement to the 1991-1992 directory of two-way bilingual education programs in the United States profiles new and some existing programs in which language-minority and language-majority children are instructed in and through both languages. this volume contains data on 25 programs in Alaska, Arizona, California, Connecticut,…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Chinese, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)