Until recently, states focused on ensuring the presence of a "highly qualified teacher" in every classroom. Under the 2001 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), known as No Child Left Behind (NCLB), this title described a teacher holding at least a bachelor's degree and the appropriate state license and…

The Data Quality Campaign (DQC) is a national, collaborative effort to encourage and support state policymakers to improve the collection, availability and use of high-quality education data and to implement state longitudinal data systems to improve student achievement. The campaign aims to provide tools and resources that will assist state…

THE NEED FOR STUDENT ACCESS TO A COMPUTER FACILITY, THE REASONING BEHIND THIS NEED, AND A GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE EQUIPMENT REQUIRED WAS REPORTED IN THIS TECHNICAL MEMORANDUM. THE NEED FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR CAREER CHOICE WAS PRESENTED. DISCUSSIONS OF RESEARCH INTENTIONS INCLUDED (1) A MODEL OF DECISION-MAKING, (2) THE…

Paper read at the American Educational Research Association Convention, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 2-6, 1970. Describes an approach to planned organizational change in school systems built on the effective features of both the open-systems approach to understanding organizations, and the T-Group-Consultant school of small group methods. (JM)

To enable vocational educators to evaluate programs and account for the use of allocated resources, this monograph describes a rational decision-making process based on the Input, Process, Product, Impact conceptual structure for occupational education. In a rational management process, all management behavior is consistent with specified…

In August 2000, twenty people met in a room in Boston to address two questions: (1) How can Boston create a network of community schools?; and (2) Does the action have to proceed one school at a time, or are there systematic changes that can advance the movement? For the next four years, these people worked together, without funding, a road map,…

As the first of two papers delineating the design of Massachusetts' Management and Information System for Occupational Education (MISOE), these specific dimensions of MISOE structure and function are considered: (1) the distinction between economic and noneconomic analysis, (2) distinctions among census, sample, and other data, (3) the distinction…

A two-year project to systematize the occupational teacher approval record-keeping and planning procedures for the Massachusetts Office of Professional Development (OPD) for the Division of Occupational Education is described. A project overview discusses the problems of the system and objectives arrived at to solve them, including the improvement…

Guidelines for basic sampling and weighting procedures for Massachusetts' Management and Information System for Occupational Education (MISOE) are discussed, illustrating solutions relevant for systems development. Disproportionate, stratified random sampling within and across MISOE subsystems will be carried out, with a hierarchical…

Massachusetts' Management and Information System for Occupational Education (MISOE) arrays data for its dynamic simulation model, which decides educational and instructional policies at the state, school district, and classroom levels, according to this formula: Inputs/Process/Product/Impact. In this monograph linear programed models are…

Massachusetts Management and Information System for Occupational Education (MISOE) is the prototype for a man machine information system for the statewide management of vocational education at the secondary, post-secondary, and adult levels. Intended to provide a rational process of resource allocation for vocational education as a competitive…