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Download full textWashington State Board of Education, 2020
Schools are experiencing unprecedented disruption, forcing educators to think differently about how they engage with their students and forcing changes to longstanding systems that have been established to deliver education. This presents an opportunity to not only discover ways to address education during the coronavirus pandemic, but also to…
Descriptors: Mastery Learning, Access to Education, Barriers, State Programs
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Direct linkKasprzak, Christina; Hurth, Joicey; Rooney, Robin; Goode, Susan E.; Danaher, Joan C.; Whaley, Kathy T.; Ringwalt, Sharon S.; Cate, Debbie – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2012
Since the 2004 reauthorization of the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), there has been a growing focus on improving the quality of programs for children with disabilities and measuring the results/outcomes of those programs. Across the country, IDEA Part C Programs for Infants and Toddlers and IDEA Part B, Section 619 Preschool…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Program Effectiveness, Program Improvement, Accountability
Maddox, Laura L.; Marvin, Christine A. – Teacher Education and Special Education, 2013
Training and technical assistance programs for autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have emerged in many states as educators, administrators, and institutions of higher education attempt to address the increasing needs for enhancing the knowledge and skills of educators and disseminating the ever-growing knowledge of educational practices. This report…
Descriptors: Autism, Trainees, Technical Assistance, Educational Practices
Kurlaender, Michal; Jackson, Jacob; Howell, Jessica S. – College Board, 2012
This brief studies California's introduction of the Early Assessment Program to bridge the gap between K-12 educational standards and postsecondary education requirements, similar to the Common Core State Standards movement.
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Postsecondary Education, Alignment (Education), Accountability
Altstadt, David – Jobs for the Future, 2012
Less than 25 percent of college students who take any developmental education courses earn a credential within eight years. Over the past three years, the six states in the Developmental Education Initiative have developed and enacted unprecedented changes in policy and practice in an effort to reverse these dismal outcomes. "Ahead of the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Best Practices, Developmental Studies Programs, Case Studies
Center on Education Policy, 2012
To learn more about states' experiences with implementing school improvement grants (SIGs) funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the Center on Education Policy (CEP) administered a survey to state Title I directors. (Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act provides federal funds to schools in low-income…
Descriptors: State Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Change, Politics of Education
Jackson, Victoria – Policy Matters Ohio, 2019
Ohio provides need-based aid through a program called the Ohio College Opportunity Grant (OCOG), which is essential to helping students from low-income backgrounds attend college. Unfortunately, OCOG excludes over 110,000 community college and regional campus students, who are more likely to come from low-income families. Because of OCOG policy,…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Low Income Students, State Aid, Grants
Maryland State Department of Education, 2010
Maryland public schools continue to pick up honors and receive recognition for the work going on in their classrooms. For the second straight year, Maryland's education system has been ranked as number one in the nation by "Education Week", the nation's leading education publication. The "College Board" followed that up by…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Educational Development
Goffin, Stacie G.; Regenstein, Elliot – Pew Center on the States, 2011
By strengthening linkages between pre-k programs and education reform agendas, Early Childhood Councils are well positioned to influence their states' school improvement activities. This brief identifies specific steps councils can take to maximize their states' investments in early education including aligning policy prior to and following Pre-K.…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Preschool Education, Educational Opportunities, Educational Research
Pew Center on the States, 2011
Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act offers an opportunity to invest in programs with the greatest educational and economic benefits. Members of Congress should look to states for flexible, innovative, bipartisan strategies to gradually grow pre-k programs. This brief highlights some of the most promising state efforts to…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, State Action, State Aid
Fourney, Andrew; Gregson, Jennifer; Sugerman, Sharon; Bellow, Andrew – Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 2011
From 2004-2008, capacity to conduct program evaluation was built among the "Network for a Healthy California's" 48 largest local partners. Capacity building was done within a framework of Empowerment Evaluation and Utility-Focused evaluation. Tools included: a Scope of Work template, a handbook, a compendium of surveys, an evaluation…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Nutrition, Technical Assistance, Nutrition Instruction
Bush, Melodye – Education Commission of the States (NJ1), 2009
States have been working to increase the rigor and effectiveness of career and technical education to both meet the needs of their students and to address the workforce needs of the state and the nation. This StateNote, while not exhaustive, highlights efforts in the states that appear to be "ahead of the curve" in state policy…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Vocational Education, Best Practices, State Programs
Workman, Ed; Stubbs, Joyce – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2011
The issues and concerns facing Kentucky Career and Technical Teacher Education (KY CTTE), university teacher educators and state department Career and Technical Education (CTE) leaders in providing and preparing the best CTE teachers possible are not unique to Kentucky. In an effort to better understand these issues and concerns a team of state…
Descriptors: Technical Education, Career Education, Alignment (Education), State Programs
Center for Public Policy Priorities, 2011
Expanding economic opportunity in Texas depends on our state's ability to increase the college graduation rate for the thousands of college freshmen arriving on campuses each year. The pending budget bills would hamper college access for thousands of Texans through severe cuts to successful financial aid programs, including TEXAS Grants (Towards…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Grants, College Freshmen, Graduation Rate
Fischer, John A. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Designed to improve PK-12 professional learning and increase student achievement, Wisconsin's policymakers developed and implemented new educator licensing guidelines (PI 34) and a Professional Development Plan (PDP) system based on empirical research and national policy trends in 2004. As PI 34 and the PDP system are relatively new, the…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Professional Development, Guidelines, State Programs
