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Download full textDepartment of Education, Washington, DC. – 1996
This document is the U.S. Department of Education's first report to Congress on the Goals 2000: Educate America Act. It includes a brief history of the 1994 law, a description of how states and school districts are using their Goals 2000 money, a look at how the program is helping to reshape the department's technical-assistance effort, and a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Educational Assessment, Educational Improvement
Feuer, Michael J., Ed.; Kober, Nancy, Ed. – 1995
The Board on Testing and Assessment of the National Research Council convened a workshop in 1994 to help policymakers and others better understand the complex issues emerging from the standards-based educational reform movement. This bulletin synthesizes the workshop discussions. It is organized around four major themes that emerged from the…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Educational Assessment, Educational Change
Elliott, Judith L.; Thurlow, Martha L. – 1997
This document discusses educational assessment and accountability in current educational reform efforts and the implications for students with disabilities. A preface addresses common educational reforms, new laws promoting education reform, and how today's reforms fit with special education. The paper then describes three types of assessment:…
Descriptors: Accountability, Disabilities, Educational Assessment, Educational Change
Ysseldyke, James E.; And Others – 1994
This paper provides an overview of the use of "opportunity to learn" (OTL) standards, in relation to its implications for students with disabilities. It reviews "opportunity to learn" standards in the Goals 2000: Educate America Act and in Congressional report language on Goals 2000. The paper offers five different definitions…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Access to Education, Accountability, Definitions
Peer reviewedYsseldyke, James E., Ed.; Thurlow, Martha L., Ed. – Special Services in the Schools, 1994
This book on the results of education for students with disabilities considers a number of issues, including what outcomes should be expected and how they should be measured and reported, school reform, the possible role of Goals 2000/Educate America Act, and alternative views on identifying outcomes and setting standards such as those of the…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Data Collection, Disabilities
