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Download full textChurchill, Aaron – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2014
On September 12th, Ohio released school report-card ratings for the 2013-14 school year. This report compiles and analyzes the statewide data, with special attention given to the quality of public schools in the Ohio Big Eight urban areas: Akron, Canton, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Toledo, and Youngstown (both district and charter…
Descriptors: Report Cards, Educational Assessment, Educational Quality, Public Schools
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Direct linkChingos, Matthew M.; Henderson, Michael; West, Martin – Education Next, 2010
Never before have Americans had greater access to information about school quality. Under the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), all school districts are required to distribute annual report cards detailing student achievement levels at each of their schools. Local newspapers frequently cover the release of state test results, emphasizing…
Descriptors: Report Cards, Academic Achievement, Access to Information, Educational Quality
Conner, Marty S. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
In the era of school accountability, school boards are under scrutiny for their effectiveness in improving student achievement. It has become more than obvious that school boards play an important role in the effectiveness, ineffectiveness, successes and failures of school districts. However, to what degree of importance was the premise for this…
Descriptors: Report Cards, Academic Achievement, Program Effectiveness, School Districts
Rhode Island Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, 2007
On January 8, 2002, the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) was reauthorized as the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). NCLB required states to establish a single accountability system that includes every school and district. Rhode Island proposed an accountability model incorporating NCLB requirements to the US Department of…
Descriptors: Report Cards, Elementary Secondary Education, State Legislation, Federal Legislation
Howard, W. C.; Rice-Crenshaw, Mary – Education, 2006
The authors collaborated to create a model of school reform that has successfully transformed a failing school into a successful school. Working as a team, they have developed a research-based system to effectively improve school performance on the South Carolina School Report Card System. It enhanced the overall quality of a failing school in the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Federal Legislation, State Standards, Educational Change
Miller-Whitehead, Marie – 2003
This study examined Alabama and Tennessee state education report card data for 1998 through 2003. The purpose of the study was to determine whether there were measurable differences in reported accountability indicators between districts that elected and those that appointed superintendents. The study also examined trends in attrition and hiring…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Indicators, Elections, Elementary Secondary Education
Mathews, Jerry G.; And Others – 1995
The Mississippi Report Card (MRC) is used by the State Department of Education as a public school accountability tool. The MRC describes and characterizes school district performance and links the performance indicator profile to the accreditation level for each school district in the state. This study provided a descriptive profile of each of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Accreditation (Institutions), Educational Indicators
Miller-Whitehead, Marie – TVEE Monitor, 2002
The purpose of this study was to examine the state level, district level, and school level education accountability data that were made available on selected State Department of Education Web sites in 2000-2001. The issues of interest were: (1) differences in reported indicators on the education report cards produced in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Content Analysis, Educational Indicators
PDF pending restorationNorth Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Accountability Services/Research. – 2001
The North Carolina State Board of Education developed the ABCs of Public Education in response to the School-Based Management and Accountability Program enacted in 1996. The ABCs focuses on accountability with an emphasis on high educational standards, teaching the basics, and maximum local control. This document reports the results of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Accountability, Achievement Gains
White, Rebecca Leigh, Ed. – Alabama Department of Education, 2005
"Alabama Education News" is published monthly except for June, July, and December by the Alabama Department of Education. This publication, authorized by Section 16-2-4 of the "Code of Alabama," as recompiled in 1975, is a public service of the Alabama Department of Education designed to inform citizens and educators about…
Descriptors: Report Cards, Professional Development, Public Education, Newsletters
Calvery, Robert; And Others – 1994
The purpose of the study was to determine the characteristics of the 10 best school districts in Arkansas for 1992-93. State legislation (Act 688) of 1989 established an Office of Accountability within the State Department of Education that would provide, among other things, an annual school report card. The school report card assesses the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Comparative Analysis, Educational Finance, Educational Quality
Kochan, Susan E.; And Others – 1993
Louisiana is one of the few states to produce and distribute school report cards to public school parents statewide. The state undertook a formal evaluation, here reported, of the "1991-92 Report Cards." In Phase 1 a random sample of roughly 2,000 parents and 6,000 faculty statewide was surveyed by mail with a 30-item questionnaire…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Records, Accountability, Elementary Secondary Education
