This document is a guide to student assessment for special education services, eligibility determination, and program planning for Alabama students. To present an accurate and fair picture of the individual assessed requires more than one test score or observation. This document, which is formatted for easy desk reference for daily use by the…

This June 2003 issue of "Federal Literacy Facts" contains the following sections: (1) Parliamentary Committee Releases Groundbreaking Report on Literacy; (2) Key Recommendations from the Report; (3) Literacy Community's Strength Influences Committee Members; (4) What's Next: Where Do the Recommendations Go from Here?

This paper analyzes the need for providing additional undergraduate enrollment capacity at the University of California (UC) and of alternatives for gaining such capacity at UC and, by extension, other public research universities. In addition to the creation of new campuses, other approaches are capable of giving significant additional capacity…

This paper identifies how comparative educators have chosen to visually represent the field of development education since about 1963. This is an attempt to historicize the vision as scholars struggle with the representational dilemmas and opportunities of late modernity/postmodernity. The paper is organized in three parts. Part 1 illustrates how…

This guide is intended to guide local discussion and assist public school staff in implementing standards, assessment, and reporting procedures under the policies of the Nebraska State Board of Education. In 1998, the State Board of Education adopted the Nebraska Learning Educational Achievement through Rigorous Nebraska Standards (Nebraska…

This Brief examines England's policy changes in the 1980s, which closely resemble those in the United States. England established national standards, school choice, national assessments, new types of public schools, and decision-making authority in individual schools. Part 1 provides the background to England's reforms, including its successes and…

This handbook from the Middle States Commission on Higher Education is a bridge between the Commissions standards for accreditation and the practical challenges of planning, assessment, and continuous improvement. The handbook and its companion Web site offer extensive resources, including exercises, examples form assessment practices, and…

Papers in this collection were prepared for the annual meeting of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. This volume contains papers related to organizational effectiveness and future directions. Chapter 1, "Mission, Planning, and Organizational Change," contains: (1) "Revitalizing Mission: A Collaborative Model" (Stephany…

Presents the 1997 edition of the City College of San Francisco (CCSF) in California Planning Atlas, which is a report on the status and progress the college has made on achieving the goals set forth in the Strategic Plan. The Planning Atlas consists of six chapters covering the primary and secondary indicators to measure each goal of the college's…

This document, the Strategic Plan for 2000, pulls together the Florida Association of Community Colleges' (FACC's) mission, goals, current objectives, and operational plans for the year. This report contains the following sections: (1) introduction; (2) mission, goals, and objectives; (3) operational plans, which looks at regions and chapters,…

This report presents the distance education plan for Connecticut community colleges. It begins with an overview that discusses the range of instructional technologies, from books to computers to interactive television. The second section of this report looks at distance education in the Connecticut community college system, and describes system…

A method is described for the evaluation of information technology (IT) use in school districts. The approach is based on studies of IT evaluation and experience in evaluating IT in several school districts. The proposed approach relies on five components: (1) multiple indicators and measures of performance; (2) balanced attention to…

This Texas higher education plan outlines the goals of closing the gaps in higher education participation and success, in educational excellence, and in funded research over the next 15 years. Major goals include the following: (1) closing the gaps in participation rates across Texas to add 500,000 more students; (2) increasing by 50 percent the…

This publication lists the steps to be taken in the Continuous Improvement Instructional Planning Process of the Texas Education Agency. The steps in this process are: (1) definition of the goals and standards for student performance; (2) identification of the learning needs of the students; (3) development of performance objectives based on…

Cosumnes River College's (California) 2000 strategic plan describes a shared vision for the college's future and is intended to assist the college community in the dynamic process of responding to changes in student needs, educational policy, technology, and regional demographics. This plan is designed to guide decision making and to identify key…