Achieve has put together a set of materials--"Taking Root: Strategies for Sustaining the College- and Career-Ready Agenda"--that seeks to help states develop and implement strategies to support the sustainability of the college- and career-ready agenda. This sustainability audit was created for states to use to evaluate their own…

Washington State has experienced a significant increase in the number of children entering licensed child care. In 2005, the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) conducted a study of licensed child care, including both licensed home and facility care. The DSHS study concluded that the number of children in child care…

In December 2007, the California Postsecondary Education adopted the last in an initial series of reports on the nexus between postsecondary education and workforce development by requesting staff to return with plans and priorities to pursue implementation of ten general policy options, grouped into three categories. One option is already being…

This article examines data from nine statewide administrations of the Idaho Comprehensive Literacy Assessment (ICLA) over three-years. The ICLA measures pre-service teachers' knowledge of research-based content and pedagogy related to reading instruction and assessment. The purpose of this article was first to examine pre-service candidates'…

This study investigates the changes in the structure of state-level governance for universities in Florida from 2000 to 2002, and examines three distinct narratives that explain the processes of and the reasons for the structural changes. The author presents three specific sets of literature which help set the framework for examining the recent…

Roles and responsibilities for educational reform in Hawaii have involved several levels of planning and organizational involvement. A draft document entitled "Our Vision of Excellence" has been compiled by the State Department of Education. Following review by educators, parents, community leaders, and other concerned agencies, a…

Traces the experience of the Connecticut Commission for Higher Education in developing a master plan, including the timetable, who should participate, and how to evolve recommendations. (Author/PG)

Private colleges and universities are now under pressure from many directions. This compendium of suggestions for finding alternatives to often wasteful competitive relationships explores the potential benefits of statewide planning agencies in building cooperation between the public and private sectors of higher education. (Author)

Underscoring the importance of newspapers as information sources on social and economic history, this report puts forth a statewide plan to catalog and preserve the newspaper files of New York State. The plan proposes the compilation of a statewide bibliography in two states: a preliminary survey to isolate and preserve files in greatest immediate…

A comprehensive five-year program is outlined for the improvement of library services, particularly programs which can be assisted by the Library Services and Construction Act. Prepared by the State Library staff and based on the program developed in 1972, it provides brief descriptions of the State Library, as well as public, university, school,…

Condensed in this collection are ideas which should aid planners in developing state master plans for environmental education. Based on a review of such plans from eleven states, comments are directed toward five topics: (1) the need for an acceptable definition of environmental education, (2) some commonalities in the goals of environmental…

The ninth, and final, volume of a series on Vocational Education Planning explains that the local analysis information system is described in volumes 1-3 and 5-7. The State level system is described in volume 4. Volume 8 brings together the various training materials prepared during the project. The final volume also contains remarks on the system…

A comprehensive plan for environmental education in Minnesota is developed in this report. Organizational recommendations are defined first, indicating the need for an organizational structure, one consisting of eight regional environmental education commissions and one state environmental education planning-coordinating council. The commissions…

In a recent report, the Carnegie Commission found that in the process of expanding educational opportunity, there was great merit in forming consortia or cooperative arrangements among and between colleges and universities in the same geographical location. It is the purpose of this report to examine the potential benefits of interinstitutional…

The very nature of planning in any field involves the anticipation of events that might emerge in the institution or institutions being planned for. It is important for state education agencies to develop 3 kinds of interrelating goals and policies: (1) those relating to its own organization and operation; (2) those pertaining to the organization…