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Smiley, Richard; Sather, Susan – Regional Educational Laboratory Northwest, 2009
In this comprehensive effort to study Indian education policies, the report categorizes the policies of five Northwest Region states based on 13 key policies identified in the literature and describes the legal methods used to adopt them, such as statutes, regulations, and executive orders. The study found that six of the key policies had been…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Educational Policy, Academic Standards, Advisory Committees
Myton, David V. – 1985
This paper reviews the various recommendations for improving teacher education in the United States and compares them to educational conditions in Oregon. Recommendations are made to the Oregon Teacher Standards and Practices Commission in four areas: supply of new teachers, assurance of quality of teacher candidates, induction of new teachers…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Educational Improvement, Program Improvement, Teacher Education Programs
Collis, John – 1990
This treatise is a compilation of various educational malpractice cases as well as other references regarding educational malpractice and related malpractice cases from other professions, such as medicine, law and psychiatry, and is intended to serve as a source for understanding the complex and sensitive problems relating to educational…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Administrators, Court Litigation
Riegel, Rodney P.; Lovell, Ned B. – 1980
The phenomenon of minimum competency testing (MCT) is explored, beginning with its origins in public concern for educational accountability. Three major themes appearing in the states enacting prescriptive legislation are described: state standards/state test (Florida); state standards/local test (Oregon); and local standards/local test…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Administrative Problems, Community Attitudes
O'Sullivan, Christine Y.; Jerry, Laura; Ballator, Nada; Herr, Fiona – 1997
In 1990, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) included a Trial State Assessment (TSA); for the first time in the NAEP's history, voluntary state-by-state assessments were made. The sample was designed to represent the 8th grade public school population in a state or territory. In 1996, 44 states, the District of Columbia, Guam,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Educational Change, Grade 8
Lewis, Morgan V. – 2002
A needs sensing project was conducted to identify the general needs of the field of career and technical education (CTE), dissemination activities, and major forces in the environment judged likely to influence education in the foreseeable future. The need sensing took place with networks developed in regions assigned to the five primary partner…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Articulation (Education), Competition