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McNeil, Michele – Education Week, 2009
As 48 states charge ahead with plans to adopt common academic standards, the U.S. Department of Education will enlist experts and the public to help design a $350 million competition for the next step: the development of common tests. In coming weeks, top Education Department officials will travel to Atlanta, Boston, and Denver for a series of…
Descriptors: Schools of Education, Testing, Academic Standards, Competition
Schweitzer, Sherry, Ed. – US Department of Education, 2009
The purpose of the U.S. Department of Education's online newsletter "The Education Innovator" is to promote innovative practices in education; to offer features on promising programs and practices; to provide information on innovative research, schools, policies, and trends; and to keep readers informed of key Department priorities and…
Descriptors: Independent Living, Elementary Secondary Education, Disabilities, Vocational Rehabilitation
Jeffrey, Julie Roy – 1978
President Lyndon Johnson's support of Federal aid to education rested on the belief that schools were effective agents of upward mobility in American Life. Achievement in school, poverty planners thought, was directly related to later economic status. The question of whether poverty planners were justified in making these assumptions in developing…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Economic Opportunities, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education