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Jaquith, Ann; Mindich, Dan; Wei, Ruth Chung; Darling-Hammond, Linda – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2011
Policy shapes practice, and the increasingly important realm of professional development is no exception. To identify effective professional development policies and strategies, a Stanford University research team examined the policy frameworks supporting high levels of professional development activity in four states--(1) Colorado; (2) Missouri;…
Descriptors: Mentors, State Agencies, Beginning Teachers, Beginning Teacher Induction
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Jaquith, Ann; Mindich, Dan; Wei, Ruth Chung – Journal of Staff Development, 2010
According to national survey data, access to and participation in professional development varies widely across states, and the quality of professional development across most states is far from meeting research-based definitions of effective professional development, with a few pockets of excellence in some states. In this study, "Teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Participation, National Competency Tests, Educational Change, State Departments of Education
Foster, John C. – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers (J1), 2009
The National Occupational Competency Testing Institute (NOCTI) has been serving the career and technical education (CTE) community for almost 45 years. It is in the unique position to produce longitudinal data that indicates technical competence levels based on end-of-program testing across the country. NOCTI's data confirms that CTE is indeed…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Longitudinal Studies, Data, Competency Based Education
Sirinides, Philip; Fink, Ryan – Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, 2014
Faced with rising demand for information about early childhood programs, states need to find tools and strategies to monitor the progress of and to identify high-quality early childhood programs. In response, REL Mid-Atlantic convened a regional workgroup for state personnel who work with the systems containing early childhood data. The workgroup…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Strategies, Educational Practices, Effective Schools Research
Center on Education Policy, 2011
This individual profile provides information on New Jersey's high school exit exam standards and policies. Some of the categories presented include: (1) State exit exam policy; (2) Type of Test; (3) Purpose; (4) Major changes in exit exam policy since the 2009-10 school year for financial reasons; (5) Subjects tested on exam; (6) Grade exam first…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Accountability, Alignment (Education)
Cohen, Michael Ian – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study examined the way performance accountability culture influenced the work of public high school principals. A qualitative multiple case study design was used to discover the way principals responded to, and coped with, performance accountability culture at the local level. Interviews of nine high school principals in the state of New…
Descriptors: Accountability, Principals, High Schools, Qualitative Research
Eaton, Susan – National Education Policy Center, 2012
This report misrepresents and then criticizes recommendations from the Minnesota Department of Education, a think tank and two independent study groups, each of which recently encouraged particular voluntary efforts to reduce concentrated poverty and achieve racial and socioeconomic integration in schools and housing in Minnesota. In building its…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, School Desegregation, Academic Achievement, Politics of Education
Giaquinto, Annette C. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
During the past several decades the demand for school accountability has increased, with much of the attention and pressure on school leaders, particularly the public school superintendent. Since the 1950's, there has been a marked decline in the average longevity of superintendents in a district which changed from an average of 20-plus years to…
Descriptors: Superintendents, School Districts, Administrator Attitudes, Accountability
Viadero, Debra – Education Week, 2009
The author reports on a study released in April 2009 that suggests that California's high school exit exams are affecting some student demographic groups more than others. The California study, which was released by the Institute for Research on Education Policy and Practice at Stanford University, is the latest in a small spate of studies…
Descriptors: High Schools, Graduation Rate, Graduation, Exit Examinations
Finnegan, Robert J. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Despite recent policy initiatives to ensure high school accountability through state-mandated testing, New Jersey high school graduates may not be prepared for the challenges of college-level writing because the state's high school assessment is not aligned with college-level expectations (Brown & Conley, 2007; Conley, 2003). An ever-growing…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, High Schools, Writing Tests, Academic Achievement
New Jersey Department of Education, 2013
This document has been developed by the New Jersey Department of Education with the assistance of the TA Customizer Project funded by the U.S. Department of Education Charter Schools Program (CSP) and conducted by the National Association of State Directors of Special Education (NASDSE). Its focus is on providing information and technical…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Charter Schools, Special Education, Check Lists
Jaquith, Ann; Mindich, Dan; Wei, Ruth Chung; Darling-Hammond, Linda – Learning Forward (NJ), 2010
This report is the third of a three-phase research study of teacher professional learning opportunities in the United States. In this third phase of the research, the authors conducted case studies of four professionally active states to get a deeper look at the policy frameworks that support professional development in those states. These…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teacher Participation, Accountability, Standards
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Kotlikoff, Laurence J. – National Center on Performance Incentives, 2009
This paper is about the funding status of teachers' retirement pension schemes. Its goal is to relate the accounting for the funding of these pension obligations to the endemic, systematic, and fundamentally fraudulent system of accounting our country uses to assess the financial positions of federal, state, and local government as well as many…
Descriptors: Teacher Retirement, Financial Support, Retirement Benefits, Investment
Alliance for Excellent Education, 2009
In today's economy, employers increasingly demand that workers have a high school diploma, yet America's graduation rates are unacceptably low, particularly among poor and minority students. Nationally, only about 70 percent of students graduate from high school on time with a regular diploma; for African American and Hispanic students, this…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Secondary Education, High School Students, High Schools
Ney, Richard J. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The re-authorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act in 2002, commonly known as the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), increased the accountability of public schools throughout the United States, holding them individually responsible for the education levels attained by their students as measured by high stakes tests developed and…
Descriptors: High Schools, Federal Legislation, Low Achievement, Program Effectiveness
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