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Download full textAdam Barton; Gloria Lee – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2024
The scorching, arid northeastern state of Ceará, Brazil has long been known for growing cashews and coconuts. Now, it's defied expectations by cultivating one of the world's best public elementary school systems, despite high rates of poverty. How Sobral transformed its public school system and attained near-universal literacy offers lessons for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Elementary Schools, Poverty
Herpin, Sharon – National Charter School Resource Center, 2022
This report explains how State Entity (SE) Program grantees are using or proposed to use the technical assistance (TA) set-aside portion of their Charter School Programs (CSP) funds for these activities. This report also describes SE activities to ensure subgrantees are equipped to meet the needs of all students, and specifically students with…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Finance, State Aid, State Programs
Direct linkEducation Week, 2018
This 22nd edition of "Quality Counts" offers a fresh take on the annual top-to-bottom ranking of the nation's school systems on a state-by-state basis published by "Education Week". The first of three "Quality Counts" reports being rolled out over the course of the year, "Grading the States" aims to…
Descriptors: Geographic Location, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education, Kindergarten
Anderson, Kimberly; Mire, Mary Elizabeth – Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2016
This report presents a multi-year study of how states are implementing their state college- and career-readiness standards. In this report, the Southern Regional Education Board's (SREB's) Benchmarking State Implementation of College- and Career-Readiness Standards project studied state efforts in 2014-15 and 2015-16 to foster effective…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, State Standards, State Policy, State Programs
Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2018
"Looking Closer" is the eighth biennial report to SREB states on their progress in meeting SREB's Challenge to Lead goals for education. Each customized state report documents progress on both measurable outcomes and state policies. Through effective policy implementation, the goals can help states drive improvements in student…
Descriptors: Public Schools, School Demography, Student Diversity, Enrollment
Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd), 2014
A full year of progress in advancing education reform across America is documented in each of the Foundation for Excellence in Education's Annual Reports. The illustrated pages of the 2014 report, provide data-rich updates on Excellence in Education's work to advance student-centered policies in more than 40 states, all aimed at improving learning…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Quality, Excellence in Education, Student Centered Learning
Mississippi Department of Education, 2005
In this document, the Senate Bill 2488 of the 2000 Mississippi Legislative Session is discussed. The bill specified that the Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) must identify schools that do not meet expected levels of student achievement and label them as Priority Schools. This legislation further clarified public school accreditation and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Public Schools, Accountability, Academic Achievement
Gaines, Gale F., Comp. – Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2009
"The 2009 Legislative Briefing" is a topical summary of actions during the 2009 legislative sessions that affect education in the 16 SREB states. Topics include: state budgets and the economy; tax and revenue; teacher and faculty pay raises; retirement systems; issues affecting teachers and education leaders; health and safety;…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Educational Finance, Budgets, Budgeting
Mississippi State Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning, Jackson. – 2000
This guide presents a plan for excellence in education within Mississippi's public university system. It is based on system goals and priorities established by the Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning (IHL), and is designed to facilitate planning, budgeting, and decision-making processes at the system and university levels.…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accountability, Diversity (Student), Educational Planning
National Survey of Student Engagement, 2006
The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) documents dimensions of quality in undergraduate education and provides information and assistance to colleges, universities, and other organizations to improve student learning. Its primary activity is annually surveying college students to assess the extent to which they engage in educational…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, National Surveys, Student Surveys, Undergraduate Students
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) Teacher Excellence for All Children: Senior Democrat Offers Legislation Featuring Teacher Incentives and Induction…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Incentives, Faculty Mobility, Public Education
Hoachlander, E. Gareth; And Others – 1992
In September 1990, the Commission on Work Force Excellence was established to increase Mississippi's economic competitiveness and improve worker opportunities. The commission sponsored an evaluation of the diverse enterprise of the state's secondary and postsecondary vocational education system. Eight findings resulted from the study. First, the…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Accountability, Articulation (Education), Coordination
Berry, Barnett; Buxton, J. B. – 2000
This publication focuses on the teaching quality goals and priorities of nine Southeastern U.S. states (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee), reviewing each state's Title II proposals. The report highlights seven priority areas of focus for regional alliances: constructing…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Accountability, Alternative Teacher Certification
