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Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd), 2019
Focused on educational quality, innovation and opportunity--both within and outside of the traditional system--ExcelinEd advances a broad range of student-centered policy solutions that are successfully: (1) increasing student learning; (2) Readying graduates for college and career; and (3) Advancing equity. This year's annual report highlights…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Policy, Learning Experience, College Readiness
National Governors Association, 2019
This topic paper details how dual and concurrent enrollment programs can help states overcome workforce readiness and postsecondary access and completion challenges and how governors can strengthen these programs by using their bully pulpit, agenda setting authority and budgetary authority to do so. It concludes with a number of examples of how…
Descriptors: Career Readiness, Dual Enrollment, Postsecondary Education, State Government
League of Women Voters Education Fund, Washington, DC. – 1978
This report describes League of Women Voters citizen education campaigns concerning the financing of public schools. Launched in South Carolina, New Jersey, Idaho, Vermont, Missouri, California, and Maine, the campaigns were aimed at raising public awareness and interest in the issues and problems involved in funding public schools, thereby…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Services, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
Education Trust, Washington, DC. – 2001
This report provides data on the academic achievement gap that separates low-income and minority students from other students, examining how well different groups of students perform in Idaho and noting inequities in teacher quality, course offerings, and funding. Included are tables and data that provide: student profile (the demographic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Curriculum, Educational Attainment
Education Trust, Washington, DC. – 2003
This report compares Idaho's reading and mathematics performance on the most recent administrations of the state assessment with performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). To indicate how Idaho is doing in narrowing the academic achievement gap between African American, Latino, or low-income students and their white,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Advanced Placement, American Indians, Asian American Students
McDaniel, Robert H., Ed.; And Others – 1986
To assist state-level educational policy makers, information about the needs of rural adults and barriers to their participation in educational programs was studied in seven northwestern states. Telephone interviews gathered information from educational providers (approximately 6 in each state) and 47 rural adult learners from the region. In each…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Adult Students, Delivery Systems