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Lee, Jaekyung; Kim, Namsook; Cobanoglu, Ayse; O'Connor, Michael – Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, 2019
The balanced development of cognitive and noncognitive skills is crucial not only for well-rounded child development in schools but also for career and life success. Unlike academic learning standards, however, there are rarely comparable "socioemotional learning" (SEL) standards. Under the pressure of high-stakes testing policies…
Descriptors: State Standards, Accountability, Social Development, Emotional Development
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Lee, Jaekyung; Kang, Chungseo – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2019
This study challenges prior evidence on the impact of Korea's high-stakes school accountability policy as a tool to improve overall achievement and close achievement gaps. Applying difference-in-differences method, the study compares Korean high school students' reading and math test score trends before and after the policy based on the National…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Accountability, Educational Policy, High Stakes Tests
Lee, Jaekyung – 1996
Content-driven systemic school reform emerged in recent years as a major policy alternative in the United States. Major reforms include the establishment of state curriculum frameworks, the development of student assessments, and the adoption of new textbooks tied to the curriculum frameworks. Because successful implementation of content-driven…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Guides, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
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Lee, Jaekyung – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2004
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) requires that schools make "adequate yearly progress" (AYP) towards the goal of having 100 percent of their students become proficient by year 2013-14. Through simulation analyses of Maine and Kentucky school performance data collected during the 1990s, this study investigates how feasible…
Descriptors: Simulation, Federal Legislation, Educational Improvement, Federal Programs
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Lee, Jaekyung – Peabody Journal of Education, 2006
States' policy approaches to accountability tend to divide between a primary emphasis on input guarantees and a primary emphasis on performance guarantees. In the midst of keen controversies about the impact of high-stakes testing under the No Child Left Behind Act, this article examines separate and joint effects of input-guarantee versus…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Federal Legislation, School Support, Grade 8
Lee, Jaekyung – 1996
Given state activism in education reform during the 1980s, a major concern in the development of education policy is whether reform states have increased their financial support for education in order to achieve desired objectives. This paper describes findings of a study that explored the distributive nature of state and local policy choices in…
Descriptors: Educational Economics, Educational Finance, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education