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Office of Educational Technology, US Department of Education, 2022
In spring 2022, the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Technology (OET) committed to advancing digital equity through the Digital Equity Education Roundtables (DEER) Initiative. Through DEER, OET hosted a series of national conversations with leaders from community-based organizations, as well as families and learners furthest…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Disadvantaged, Educational Technology, Internet
US House of Representatives, 2022
The Committee on Education and Labor met to hear testimony on "Examining the Policies and Priorities of the United States Department of Education." The U.S. Department of Education was making a budget request for Fiscal Year 2022 and the Committee wanted to examine the Department's priorities to support students, educators, and…
Descriptors: Public Agencies, Federal Government, Education, Educational Policy
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White, Melissa Eiler; Makkonen, Reino; Vince, Scott; Bailey, Jerry – Regional Educational Laboratory West, 2012
In the context of an emerging national focus on evaluating school personnel, the 2009 federal State Fiscal Stabilization Fund (SFSF) program requires that states collect data from all local education agencies about their practices for evaluating teachers and principals. In response, the California Department of Education designed and administered…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Charter Schools, Teacher Evaluation, Administrator Evaluation
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Smarick, Andy – Education Next, 2010
For as long as there have been struggling schools in America's cities, there have been efforts to turn them around. But overall, school turnaround efforts have consistently fallen far short of hopes and expectations. Quite simply, turnarounds are not a scalable strategy for fixing America's troubled urban school systems. Fortunately, findings from…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Educational Change, Public Education, Educational Improvement
Gewertz, Catherine – Education Week, 2009
A Washington research group is raising questions about the wisdom of the U.S. Department of Education's favored strategies for turning around the lowest-performing schools with stimulus funding, saying that its research shows that similar federal approaches to school restructuring have not been effective. The questions raised by the new study were…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Educational Improvement
Achieve, Inc., 2009
Passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and the creation of the Race to the Top (RTTT) Fund in early 2009 provide states (SEAs) and local school districts (LEAs) with an historic opportunity to develop and implement dramatic reforms to improve the rate at which students graduate ready for college and careers. This brief is…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Educational Change, School Districts, Public Agencies