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Download full textAchieve, Inc., 2010
"Perspective" is a monthly e-newsletter presenting news and views from Achieve. This month's issue commences with a report stating how the number of states that ensure the college and career readiness of their students has increased since Achieve first started tracking progress on the college- and career-ready policy agenda five years…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), State Schools, Teaching (Occupation), International Education
Direct linkAmos, Jason, Ed. – Alliance for Excellent Education, 2008
"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) "Given Half a Chance": Report Highlights Huge Gap in Graduation Rates Between Black Males and White Males; (2) Math Problem:…
Descriptors: High Schools, Graduation Rate, Academic Achievement, Public Education
Heslop, Joanne – British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer, 2004
This comparative academic performance study of direct entry secondary school students and college transfer students admitted to Simon Fraser University (SFU) was conducted to determine whether differences in university course grades between the two groups still exists when controlling for secondary school performance. (Contains 2 figures, 1 table,…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, College Students, Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis
Amos, Jason, Ed. – Alliance for Excellent Education, 2006
"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) Education Programs Receive Little Funding: Striving Readers One of Only a Handful of Programs to Receive Small…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Literacy, Public Education, High School Students
Abell Foundation, 2005
Special education in Baltimore City--the educational program for students with certain mental, emotional, or physical disabilities--has been a nagging, intractable, and very public problem for at least 25 years. Community leaders have been mindful of the inequities that undermine the education of students with disabilities and continue to address…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, High Schools, Disabilities, Graduation Rate
Rohland, Mark, Ed. – Laboratory for Student Success (LSS), The Mid-Atlantic Regional Educational Laboratory, 2003
Work-based education (WBE), including traditional vocational education and other career-focused programs, was an important curricular component in American schools for most of the 20th century. The 1990s was a period of substantial change for work-based education (WBE). Spurred on by a concern about the international competitiveness of the…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Educational Change, Tech Prep, Education Work Relationship
