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Viadero, Debra – Education Week, 2009
A study released last week suggesting that California's high school exit exams are affecting some student demographic groups more than others is the latest in a small spate of studies pointing to trade-offs from policies that require high school students to pass state tests to graduate. Twenty-six states have exit exams in place or will by 2012,…
Descriptors: High Schools, Females, Graduation Rate, Graduation
Afterschool Alliance, 2006
This compilation focuses chiefly on the impact of afterschool programs on student academic achievement. Although afterschool programs for children have been operating for many years in some communities, the afterschool movement is just a few years old. As public demand for afterschool has grown, so has the demand for accountability. That is…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, After School Programs, Academic Achievement, Accountability
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Goduto, Leonard R.; Doolittle, Gini; Leake, Donald – Theory Into Practice, 2008
In 2004, the New Jersey Department of Education mandated that all leadership preparation programs in the state align with the Interstate School Leadership Licensure Consortia standards. In response, 17 preparation programs established a chapter of the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration. In this article, we describe how…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Instructional Leadership, Accountability, Federal Legislation
Center on Education Policy, 2010
In New Jersey, achievement gaps narrowed in grade 11 reading and math for all major subgroups, with one exception. Comparable data for grade 11 by subgroup were available for 2002-2009, with a few exceptions. Because the state changed its tests at grades 4 and 8 in recent years, there were too few years of comparable data to determine trends at…
Descriptors: Scores, Trend Analysis, Reading Achievement, Mathematics Achievement
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McDermott, Kathryn A. – American Educational Research Journal, 2007
Advocates of educational accountability policies say that the policies are intended to use the state's authority to ensure equal educational opportunity. Opponents make essentially the opposite claim: that expanded state power is intended to disempower local communities and to single them out for blame, in response to larger political and economic…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Opportunities, Public Education, Educational Policy
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Tannen, Sandra – NADE Digest, 2007
According to a study of 944 two- and four-year colleges, "caring attitude of faculty and staff" was listed as the most important factor for retaining students (Roueche, 1993). This article will explain how one teacher demonstrates genuine concern for students while demanding high standards of excellence and student accountability. This…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Goal Orientation, College Students, Caring
Alliance for Excellent Education, 2009
Graduation rates are a fundamental indicator of whether or not the nation's public school system is doing what it is intended to do: enroll, engage, and educate youth to be productive members of society. Since almost 90 percent of the fastest-growing and highest-paying jobs require some postsecondary education, having a high school diploma and the…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Dropouts, Graduation, Academic Achievement
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Smith, Emma – Journal of Education Policy, 2005
In January 2002, President George W. Bush signed into law what is arguably the most important piece of US educational legislation for the past 35 years. For the first time, Public Law 107?110 links high stakes testing with strict accountability measures designed to ensure that, at least in schools that receive government funding, no child is left…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Economically Disadvantaged, English, Accountability
Achieve, Inc., 2008
States are increasingly focusing the mission of their elementary and secondary education systems on preparing all students for success in postsecondary education and 21st century careers. As standards have increased, so too have graduation requirements. Today, 20 states and the District of Columbia have adopted such high school graduation…
Descriptors: High School Students, Graduation, Graduation Requirements, Accountability
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Lauter, Nancy; Rice, Cynthia – New Educator, 2008
Preschool systems changed significantly in New Jersey in 1998 when the State's Supreme Court required the poorest school districts to implement high quality, intensive preschool programs for all three- and four-year-olds. Since the first year of implementation in 1999, New Jersey's Abbott districts have been providing preschoolers with access to…
Descriptors: Class Size, Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Program Implementation
Richardson, Richard, Jr.; Martinez, Mario – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009
"Policy and Performance in American Higher Education" presents a new approach to understanding how public policy influences institutional performance, with practical insight for those charged with crafting and implementing higher education policy. Public institutions of higher learning are called upon by state governments to provide…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Access to Education, Public Policy, Educational Policy
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Tannenbaum, Margaret D. – School Community Journal, 1994
Community members and parents have little impact on the policies governing their schools. A study of school choice attitudes among 5 populations (teachers, principals, board members, parents, and secondary students) in 28 southern New Jersey districts reveals that educational professionals' attitudes determine such policies. In practice, school…
Descriptors: Accountability, Attitudes, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Olson, Lynn – Education Week, 2006
This article presents the details of a conference discussing issues on NCLB implementation. The conference was based on a set of papers that included reviews of NCLB implementation in California, Colorado, Michigan, and New Jersey, as well as in three rural Kentucky districts and 36 big-city districts nationwide. Those analyses found that states…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Accountability, School Districts, Collective Bargaining
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Prestine, Nona A. – Planning and Changing, 2005
Alignment means that in order to improve student achievement and learning, school districts need to have clear standards of attainment with which their curriculum and accountability measures must align. At the state level, this notion of alignment or coherence refers to the state-developed policies that comprise its accountability system. In the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Superintendents, Administrator Attitudes, Educational Change
Callahan, Kathe; Sadovnik, Alan; Visconti, Louisa – 2002
This study assessed how New Jersey's state accountability system encouraged or thwarted charter school success, how effectively performance standards were defined and enacted by authorizing agents, and how individual charter schools were developing accountability processes that made them more or less successful than their charter school…
Descriptors: Accountability, Charter Schools, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
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