It is hard to overestimate the significance of the master planning process. The process is one of the most salient strategies that the Maryland State Department of Education utilizes for improving student achievement and closing the achievement gap. Until recently, many local school systems (LSSs) treated planning as a local endeavor that merely…

Considers the usefulness of educational indicators for helping small schools evaluate educational improvement. Describes a project to establish comprehensive and accurate data profiles for a small schools consortium in east central Kansas. Concludes the project has led to significant improvements in achievement, instruction, leadership, and school…

This volume is intended as a guide to managers of U.S. Department of Education programs and their staffs to help them in their efforts to design reasonably valid, reliable, and useful outcome monitoring procedures. It provides recommendations for development of an outcome measurement process for individual educational programs. These suggestions…