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Download full textCarrie Klein; Jessica Colorado – State Higher Education Executive Officers, 2024
Since 2010, the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association's (SHEEO) Strong Foundations survey has reported on the evolution and value of postsecondary student unit record systems (PSURSs) by illuminating the condition of state postsecondary data in the U.S. In the "Strong Foundations 2023" survey, which was administered from…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Records, Data Collection, Databases
Peer reviewedJulie Fitz; Stephanie Levin; Marjorie E. Wechsler – Learning Policy Institute, 2024
California has a notable history of investing in educational leaders' professional learning. In 1983, the state launched the California School Leadership Academy (CSLA), which it funded until the academy was discontinued due to statewide budget cuts in 2003. Research showed that CSLA was a source of high-quality professional development. In 2019,…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Elementary Secondary Education, Preschool Education, Administrator Education
Michael Gottfried; Lindsay Page; Danielle Edwards – EdResearch for Action, 2023
The EdResearch for Action "Overview Series" summarizes the research on key topics to provide K-12 education decision makers and advocates with an evidence base to ground discussions about how to best serve students. This overview brief discusses the causes and effects of chronic absenteeism and three tiers of evidence-based practices to…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Attendance, Student Needs, At Risk Students
Data Quality Campaign, 2018
Alignment between K-12 education and the workforce is critical because jobs are changing. Students must be prepared not only for the jobs of today but also for the jobs of the future. Securely linking data between state K-12 and workforce data systems can create a bridge between these agencies as they develop shared career readiness goals for…
Descriptors: Alignment (Education), Elementary Secondary Education, Labor Force, Education Work Relationship
Julie Corbett; Jan Donley; Jill Feldman; Allison Layland; Melly Wilson – National Comprehensive Center, 2020
COVID-19 has had a profound impact on all aspects of lives, including how to teach students. It is clear that the K-12 education system as it was known has changed. The pandemic has stressed each level of the education system: the state education agency (SEA), regional education agencies (REA), local education agencies (LEA), tribal education…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Elementary Secondary Education, School Closing
Mezera, Danielle; Suffren, Quentin – Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd), 2018
In its first Career and Technical Education (CTE) playbook, "Putting Career and Technical Education to Work for Students" (see ED609912), ExcelinEd examined the need and rationale for strengthening statewide CTE programs and provided a process that state policymakers can undertake to do just that. Serious efforts to develop and…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Partnerships in Education, Business
National Forum on Education Statistics, 2012
This document recommends a set of "core" practices, operations, and templates that can be adopted and adapted by state education agencies (SEAs) as they consider how to respond to requests for data about the education enterprise, including data maintained in longitudinal data systems. These recommendations reflect core practices and…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Data, Educational Researchers, State Departments of Education
NGA Center for Best Practices, 2012
Awarding credits based on student mastery of content and skills can remove barriers to increasing student readiness for college and careers, according to a new issue brief released by the National Governors Association. This brief shows how governors can lead efforts to foster alternative methods of awarding credit by working to: (1) Build…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Credits, Educational Change, Educational Policy
Direct linkSchwartz, Heather L.; Grant, David; Diliberti, Melissa Kay; Hunter, Gerald P.; Setodji, Claude Messan – RAND Corporation, 2020
U.S. school districts have taken widely varied approaches to reopening public schools for the 2020-2021 school year. The divergence stems from the highly localized approach to both schooling and addressing the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and differences in COVID-19 transmission rates among communities. To develop a national…
Descriptors: Public Schools, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
US Department of Education, 2014
Developing positive school climates and improving school discipline policies and practices are critical steps to raising academic achievement and supporting student success. However, there is no single formula for doing so. Rather, the growing body of research and best practices in the field should inform locally developed approaches to improving…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, School Culture, Discipline, Prevention
O'Neill, Paul T. – National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NJ1), 2009
"Multiple authorizers" refers to situations where more than one entity is able to authorize charter schools in any given community. The presence of multiple authorizers can strengthen a state's charter school sector because a diversity of authorizers can promote professional practices among authorizers and provide checks and balances in charter…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Best Practices, State Policy, Administrator Guides
Froese-Germain, Bernie; Riel, Richard – Canadian Teachers' Federation (NJ1), 2012
This 2012 research report, based on a national online survey conducted by the Canadian Teachers’ Federation (CTF) in collaboration with the Mental Health Commission of Canada, gathers the responses of over 3,900 teachers who voluntarily took part in the survey. Teachers were asked to identify the potential barriers to the provision of mental…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Mental Health, Teacher Surveys
Armour-Garb, Allison, Ed. – Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, State University of New York, 2007
This volume contains an edited transcript of the Rockefeller Institute's October 29, 2007 symposium (Chicago, IL) entitled "Intergovernmental Approaches to Strengthen K-12 Accountability Systems" as well as a framework paper circulated in preparation for the symposium. The transcript begins with a list of the forty state and federal education…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Testing, Educational Change
