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Download full textSykes, Gary; Bell, Courtney; Shukla, Bhavya – ETS Center for Research on Human Capital and Education, 2020
This is the second in a series of policy notes and related publications exploring prospects for developing indicators of teaching quality. The first examined federal databases that include information about teachers, demonstrating that almost none of the measures in these datasets provides indication of teaching quality. This policy note takes the…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Quality, Equal Education, Educational Indicators
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Direct linkBogue, Grady; Hall, Kimberely – College and University, 2012
Evidence of the emergence of accountability expectations for higher education in the United States and throughout the world is abundant; it is in national reports, conference themes, mandated assessments, accreditation guidelines, and government statues and regulations. Yet some research establishes that business, political, and academic…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Accountability, Stakeholders, Accreditation (Institutions)
American Association of Community Colleges (NJ1), 2012
In times of economic uncertainty, community colleges have consistently turned to the experience of past generations as an avenue toward innovation and the modernization of their programs and services. Community colleges have been able to continuously reinvent themselves to serve the ever-changing needs of society. With President Obama's increased…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Economic Climate, Data Collection, Listening
Winke, Paula – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2011
The English Language Proficiency Assessment (ELPA) is used in the state of Michigan in the United States to fulfill government-mandated No Child Left Behind (NCLB) requirements. The test is used to promote and monitor achievement in English language learning in schools that receive federal NCLB funding. The goal of the project discussed here was…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Proficiency, Standardized Tests, High Stakes Tests
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
Gabbard, David A., Ed.; Ross, E. Wayne, Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2008
This highly acclaimed volume in the "Defending Public Schools" series is now available in paperback from Teachers College Press. It is a practical, necessary addition to the work of administrators, teachers, policymakers, and parents as they negotiate the difficult path of how to best teach and educate today's children and youth. This…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Public Schools, Privatization, Federal Legislation
Alabama State Dept. of Education, Montgomery. Div. of Vocational Education and Community Colleges. – 1975
This review, based on a variety of information sources, discusses vocational education under the following major headings: Forces Contributing to Curriculum Change in Vocational Education (summarizes four of the major elements which seem to be contributing to rapid change in vocational education--knowledge explosion, rise of technology, change in…
Descriptors: Accountability, Career Education, Competency Based Education, Concept Formation
Gross, Betheny, Ed.; Goertz, Margaret E., Ed. – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2005
This report focuses squarely on strategies for instructional improvement in American high schools. Specifically, this study examines how high schools that perform below average incorporate their state's accountability goals into their own goals, identify their challenges, and search for strategies for instructional improvement. It focuses on how…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, High Schools, Instructional Improvement, Accountability
