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Direct linkHess, Frederick M. – Brookings Papers on Education Policy, 2002
In the 1990s, Virginia launched one of the nation's most ambitious standards-based reform efforts. Encouraged by a budding national accountability movement and motivated by conservative distrust of the public school establishment, state officials sought to clarify what students needed to know and to hold students and educators accountable for…
Descriptors: State Officials, Program Effectiveness, Accountability, Educational Change
Download full textSmith, Nick L., Ed.; Caulley, Darrel N., Ed. – 1982
The nature of educational evaluation and its interaction with policy in six state departments of education is examined. Case reports of research and evaluation units are presented for Virginia (by Gerald W. Bracey), Michigan (by David L. Donovan and Stanley A. Rumbaugh), Washington (by Alfred F. Rasp, Jr.), South Carolina (by Paul D. Sandifer),…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Assessment, Educational Innovation, Educational Policy
Smartt, Steven H. – 1981
The role of advanced programs in urban universities and the relationship between large public urban universities and comprehensive state universities in less-populated areas are addressed. An overview of the issues, case studies in three states, a study comparing students in two doctoral programs, and information on the characteristics of large…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Doctoral Programs, Financial Support, Graduate Study
