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Download full textSmith, Nelson – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2014
What happens when policymakers create statewide school districts to turn around their worst-performing public schools? In Louisiana and Tennessee, Recovery School Districts (RSDs) have made modest-to-strong progress for kids and serve as national models for what the future of education governance might hold. In the Great Lakes State, the story is…
Descriptors: School Districts, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Change, School Turnaround
Southwest Educational Development Lab., Austin, TX. – 1978
A variety of viewpoints were represented in this symposium for chief state school officials and senior staff of state departments of education. Russell Vlaanderen, Education Commission of the States, opened with a national overview: "The Policy Implications of Minimum Competency Testing: The Case of the Standardized Student." Attorney…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Basic Skills, Competency Based Education, Conference Reports
