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Nancy Smith; Claus von Zastrow – Education Commission of the States, 2022
When the COVID-19 pandemic drove schools online in March 2020, state education leaders were left without access to data needed to understand how best to support students. The pandemic revealed the strengths and limitations of state education data systems while inspiring new strategies for collecting, reporting and using data. In 2021, DataSmith…
Descriptors: State Departments of Education, Data, Data Collection, Pandemics
Reform Support Network, 2015
Over the past decade, national initiatives have shifted States' attention to the challenge of turning around low-performing schools. The lack of consistent, dramatic improvements in the lowest-performing schools reflects the severity of the school turnaround challenge, but also suggests the need to continuously evaluate and refine turnaround…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Educational Improvement, School Effectiveness, State Departments of Education
Regional Educational Laboratory Pacific, 2014
Effective evidence-based action requires getting the right data into the right hands at the right time to help make decisions. The Data Quality Campaign (2011) has provided suggestions to state education agencies for effectively using data within state longitudinal data systems. One suggestion is to identify "the variety of ways available…
Descriptors: Data, Information Sources, Access to Information, State Departments of Education
Hawaii State Office of the Auditor, Honolulu. – 1993
Since 1986, the Hawaii Legislature has granted the University of Hawaii (UH) and the State Department of Education (DOE) greater administrative financial flexibility than is allowed other state agencies. In 1989, the state auditor was requested to evaluate the legislation's effects and educational assessment progress at the two educational…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Administration, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
Fukumoto, Keith H. – 1991
Findings of a study on public school funding and accountability in Hawaii are presented in this report. Following a detailed executive summary, the introduction outlines the state legislative history that mandated the study and describes the study's design. Chapter 2 discusses the different methods used to analyze educational expenditures and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Cost Indexes, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
Hagans, Rex; Crohn, Leslie – 1986
The education reform movement has inspired an impressive array of school improvement programs. This article categorizes these intitiatives, summarizes policy directions, explores recent state curriculum guidelines and Northwest trends, and discusses implementation challenges. According to an Education Commission of the States study, most…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Guides, Data Collection