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Loveless, Tom – Brookings Institution, 2012
This edition of the Brown Center Report on American Education marks the first issue of volume three--and eleventh issue over all. The first installment was published in 2000, just as the Presidential campaigns of George W. Bush and Al Gore were winding down. Education was an important issue in that campaign. It has not been thus far in the current…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, State Standards, Educational Improvement, Academic Achievement
Ballard, Amy; Palmieri, Stafford; Winkler, Amber – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2008
This report has a simple aim: to present results from international assessments so readers can judge for themselves how American students stack up globally. It's intended to be a stand-alone supplement to the "Education Olympics" web event held between August 8th and August 22nd, 2008 (see edolympics.net). It shows how the U.S. has…
Descriptors: International Studies, Academic Achievement, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries