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Julia 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
Reform Support Network, 2012
Several Race to the Top grantees are considering the development of video libraries as one element of their larger teacher and leader effectiveness reforms. Video libraries promise to offer "real world" examples of teaching practice that can be used for a wide range of purposes: providing teachers with concrete evidence of excellent…
Descriptors: State Policy, Educational Policy, Technology Uses in Education, Video Technology
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Hampel, Robert – International Journal of Educational Reform, 1996
Delaware was a pioneer member of Project RE:LEARNING, designed to garner state policy makers' support for school reform. This article introduces three papers from various perspectives (school principal, policy analyst, and project coordinator) that target the political culture shaping school reform. Papers highlight mobilization difficulties…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Government Role
National Council on Teacher Quality, 2007
The "State Teacher Policy Yearbook" examines what is arguably the single most powerful authority over the teaching profession: state government. This Delaware edition of the National Council on Teacher Quality's (NCTQ's) "State Teacher Policy Yearbook" is the first of what will be an annual look at the status of state policies…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Teaching (Occupation), Teacher Effectiveness, Yearbooks
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Stevenson, David L. – Teachers College Record, 1995
The article explains briefly the provisions of Goals 2000, emphasizing its support of ongoing educational change at the state and local levels and state flexibility to develop diverse approaches to reform. To illustrate this flexibility, the article describes reform activities in Vermont, Delaware, and Oregon, and explains how these states are…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Research for Better Schools, Inc., Philadelphia, PA. – 1978
The report presents an overview of perspectives on citizen education; relates needs expressed by planning groups for citizen education programs in Deleware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania; and presents materials relating to national and state citizenship education priorities. A major purpose of the document is to help state and local educators and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Citizen Role, Citizenship, Citizenship Education