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Direct linkJulia Kaufman; Sy Doan – State Education Standard, 2024
High-quality K-12 instructional materials can meaningfully improve teaching practice and student achievement, especially when paired with professional learning support. Yet state policymakers have usually left ultimate authority for textbook selection to school district leaders. Consequently, the quality of materials across U.S. classrooms and…
Descriptors: Textbook Selection, State Government, Government Role, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textZavadsky, Heather – Building State Capacity and Productivity Center, 2014
The role of state education agencies (SEAs) has shifted significantly from low-profile, compliance activities like managing federal grants to engaging in more complex and politically charged tasks like setting curriculum standards, developing accountability systems, and creating new teacher evaluation systems. The move from compliance-monitoring…
Descriptors: State Departments of Education, Stakeholders, State Standards, Government Role
Building State Capacity and Productivity Center, 2016
The Arkansas Department of Education (ADE) did not wait for Congress to pass the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). Beginning months before the passage of the landmark education bill, ADE began an intensive examination of Arkansas's education future and ADE's role relative to districts and communities in shaping that future. The ADE strategic…
Descriptors: Government Role, Stakeholders, Educational Change, School Districts
Mitchell, Susan; Fonseca, Manuela; LaFave, Allison – Preschool Development and Expansion Grant Technical Assistance (PDG TA), 2016
There is growing unease about suspension and expulsion of children at the preschool level. Preschoolers are expelled at three times the rate of K-12 students (Gilliam, 2005). Boys--particularly African-American boys--comprise a disproportionate number of these cases, a fact that has caused concern among parents, policymakers, and advocates alike.…
Descriptors: Suspension, Expulsion, Preschool Education, Preschool Children
Macro International, Inc., Silver Spring, MD. – 1994
During the summer of 1993, site-visit teams visited Arkansas, Arizona, Maryland, New Jersey, and Oregon to interview the Child Care Development Block Grant (CCDBG) lead agency staff about each state's child care management information system (MIS). The state information work group and experts recommended states with innovative, unique, and…
Descriptors: Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Government Role, Long Range Planning
Southern Regional Education Board, Atlanta, GA. – 1980
The theme of the meeting for which these profiles were prepared is "Coordinating Higher Education: Setting State Policies in the 80s." The profiles of the 14 states covered by the Southern Regional Education Board (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee,…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Budgeting, Governance, Governing Boards
National Council on Teacher Quality, 2008
This report presents the Arkansas edition of the National Council on Teacher Quality's 2008 "State Teacher Policy Yearbook." The 2008 "Yearbook" focuses on how state policies impact the retention of effective new teachers. This policy evaluation is broken down into three areas that encompass 15 goals. Broadly, these goals…
Descriptors: Mentors, Teacher Competencies, State Government, Government Role
Peer reviewedButler, Judy D. – International Journal of Social Education, 1999
Traces the development of global studies in Arkansas from conception to institutionalization. Focuses on the dilemmas of textbook adoption and teacher licensure, teacher preparation, and support from the Arkansas International Committee, University of Arkansas at Monticello, and Southern Arkansas University. Addresses the role of Bill and Hillary…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Curriculum Development, Global Education, Government Role
Ospina, Enrique, Ed.; Sims, Cami S., Ed. – 1988
Conference participants examined how other states are preparing their farmers and rural communities to survive in the present "new world order," and considered whether Arkansas, one of only three states without a central agricultural agency, has the tools to forge strategies for the 1990's. "The Role of State Government in…
Descriptors: Agricultural Trends, Agriculture, Change Strategies, Economic Development
Osborne, David – American Educator: The Professional Journal of the American Federation of Teachers, 1992
Describes the significant change in Arkansas State public policy on education during the tenure of Governor Bill Clinton. Details the political ups and downs of Clinton's initiatives, particularly teacher competency tests. Offers a postscript on Clinton's initiatives and a side bar on the Home Instructional Program for Preschool Youngsters. (JB)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Government Role
Arkansas State Office of the Governor, Little Rock. – 1988
This document presents the legislative program advocated by the Governor of Arkansas that was scheduled to be sent to the Arkansas Legislature in January 1989. The program expresses the needs of the state in terms of its ability to compete with the rest of the country in education, jobs, economic development, and prosperity, and it points out the…
Descriptors: Correctional Rehabilitation, Economic Development, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
Pipho, Chris – Phi Delta Kappan, 1986
Reviews precedents, at the state level, to the movement for education reform. Reports, by year and state, on first reactions to reform. Outlines topics touched by state reform efforts, summarizes unifying themes, and predicts the future of reform. Includes a table of states requiring testing for initial certification of teachers. (IW)
Descriptors: Centralization, Educational Change, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1902
After the Commissioner of Education's introduction, Volume 1 presents state school system statistics and a list of U.S. Bureau of Education publications. Chapters cover central European education; Ohio public school legislative history; school consolidation and pupil transportation; U.S. industrial education; educational pathology; formation of an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Educational Legislation, Student Transportation
