The following profiles address how the state departments of education are helping educators prepare for and implement the Common Core and aligned assessments through professional learning. The major professional development efforts around the Common Core were examined in order to understand the overall efforts of each state. An exhaustive list of…

The following profiles address how the state departments of education are helping educators prepare for and implement their states' new college- and career-readiness standards and aligned assessments, through professional learning. SREB researchers examined each state's major professional development efforts around its new standards in order to…

The intent of H.B. 509 is "to offer an incentive to all the school districts in the state to expand their occupational-vocational offerings so that a higher percentage of high school pupils will be work oriented and trained to become productive citizens." One of the objectives of this institute was to review some of the approaches to…