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Download full textBadrinarayan, Aneesha; Darling-Hammond, Linda – Learning Policy Institute, 2023
There is a growing call to reconsider current approaches to national and state assessment system policies and practices. State and local education agency leaders, educators, community leaders, and advocates have voiced concerns that current state assessment systems--defined primarily by end-of-year multiple-choice tests--are unable to meet…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Federal Government, Government Role, State Government
Direct linkEdwards, Virginia B., Ed. – Education Week, 2014
For all the national and even international debate about the state of American education, public schooling in the U.S. is still a local matter--and the school district remains its hub. As administrators know, there's nothing abstract about the process of getting millions of students into their seats, assuring they receive the instruction they're…
Descriptors: Public Education, School Districts, Governance, Urban Schools
Corbett, Julie – Academic Development Institute, 2011
This report describes the use of Lead Turnaround Partners (LTPs) in the current School Improvement Grant (SIG) program and provides the results of document review, surveys, and interviews with eight State Education Agencies and seven Lead Turnaround Partner organizations. The study focuses on the implementation of the transformation and turnaround…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, School Turnaround, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
Guillory, Ferrel – James B. Hunt Jr. Institute for Educational Leadership and Policy, 2005
Governors who put education at the center of their agendas and aspirations act in a long-standing tradition of American political leadership. Among those who did so are leaders who made an imprint on U.S. history both during their gubernatorial terms and afterwards. This paper describes how governors and gubernatorial aspirants can exercise…
Descriptors: State Officials, State Government, Educational Change, Government Role
Colorado Task Force for Excellence in Education, Denver. – 1984
Following an introductory overview of the problems facing education in Colorado, 46 specific educational reforms recommended by the state governor's Task Force on Excellence in Education are discussed in this final report, and the state and local agencies that must be involved in the implementation of each of the reforms are identified. The…
Descriptors: Administrators, Educational Change, Educational Finance, Educational Improvement
Amos, Jason, Ed. – Alliance for Excellent Education, 2005
"Straight A's: Public Education Policy and Progress" is a biweekly newsletter that focuses on education news and events both in Washington, DC and around the country. The following articles are included in this issue: (1) Secretary Spellings Defends Bush Budget on Capitol Hill: Congress Expresses Concern over Education Cuts, Proposal to…
Descriptors: High Schools, School Restructuring, Politics of Education, Public Education
