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Cardichon, Jessica; Darling-Hammond, Linda – Learning Policy Institute, 2019
Today's education landscape, including how students experience school, can reflect pervasive educational inequities. Past federal administrations and congresses, recognizing their critical role in addressing inequality, often acted to address disparities and violations of students' civil rights that had been left unresolved by states and…
Descriptors: Student Rights, Civil Rights, Federal Government, Government Role
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Melnick, Hanna; Cook-Harvey, Channa M.; Darling-Hammond, Linda – Learning Policy Institute, 2017
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) requires state accountability systems to include indicators of "school quality and student success" along with indicators of academic outcomes. The new law provides an important opportunity for states to broaden the definition of student success to include measures of students' social-emotional, as…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Legislation
Darling-Hammond, Linda; Hightower, Amy M.; Husbands, Jennifer L.; LaFors, Jeannette R.; Young, Viki M.; Christopher, Carl – Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy, 2003
During the 1990s, a new policy hypothesis focusing on the quality of teaching to provide a high-leverage means for improving student achievement began to gain currency. Based on interview, observation, survey, and record data collected at the state, district, and school levels over a five-year time period, the study offers a look at how the San…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Academic Achievement, Educational Change, Literacy