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Download full textAppel, Sara; Parks, Jenny; Trechter, Everett – Midwestern Higher Education Compact, 2021
In 1994, the Midwestern Higher Education Compact (MHEC) joined its sister compacts in offering a regional student reciprocity and tuition exchange opportunity known as the Midwest Student Exchange Program (MSEP). The program allowed students from one MHEC state to attend an institution at a reduced tuition rate in another MHEC state when the…
Descriptors: Institutional Cooperation, Tuition, Interstate Programs, Higher Education
Direct linkBathgate, Kelly; Colvin, Richard Lee; Silva, Elena – Education Sector, 2011
Instead of putting the entire achievement burden on schools, what would it look like to hold a whole community responsible for long-range student outcomes? This report explores the concept of "shared accountability" in education. The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act ushered in a new era of accountability in American education: for the…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Learning Readiness, Federal Legislation, Academic Achievement
Steiner, Lucy – National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality, 2009
The National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality asked Public Impact to conduct a study exploring the change processes in the creation and implementation of teacher evaluation systems. This TQ Research & Policy Brief provides an overview of Public Impact's preliminary findings as they relate to the impetus for change and the political and…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Evaluation, Accountability, Educational Change
Excelencia in Education (NJ1), 2012
In 2009, Excelencia in Education launched the Ensuring America's Future initiative to inform, organize, and engage leaders in a tactical plan to increase Latino college completion. An executive summary of Latino College Completion in 50 states synthesizes information on 50 state factsheets and builds on the national benchmarking guide. Each…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Achievement Gap, Benchmarking
Lazarus, Sheryl S.; Hodgson, Jennifer; Thurlow, Martha L. – National Center on Educational Outcomes, University of Minnesota, 2010
All students, including students with disabilities, must be included in state accountability systems as required by law. In April 2007, federal regulations provided states the flexibility to offer another assessment option--an Alternate Assessment based on Modified Achievement Standards (AA-MAS) for some students with disabilities. The AA-MAS is…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Alternative Assessment, Outcomes of Education, Disabilities
Stecher, Brian M.; Hanser, Lawrence M. – 1992
A study sought to determine the extent to which local accountability systems exist in vocational education and to describe the nature of the underlying relationships between such programs and their constituents. Data were collected through interviews from two local vocational education programs in each of five states (California, Florida,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Change Strategies, Education Work Relationship, Educational Assessment
McBain, Susan L.; Topougis, Nicholas J. – 1978
This description of career education activities in Akron (Ohio) Public Schools was prepared as part of a study conducted to identify evaluated, exemplary career education activities which represent the best of the current career education programs and practices referred to in Public Law 93-380. (See CE 018 212 for the final report of this study.)…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Development, Career Education, Community Involvement
Jackson, Diana – 2002
The project Sharing and Celebrating Exemplary and Promising Programs annually identifies outstanding career and technical education (CTE) programs in secondary and postsecondary settings. The programs were evaluated by using criteria based on programs' quality, educational significance, effectiveness, and replicability. Programs and teachers also…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Choice, Demonstration Programs, Educational Practices
Miller, Larry; Hedges, Lowell – 1981
Policies and practices were identified that have led to the success of exemplary programs in adult vocational education in Ohio. Data were collected from adult vocational education personnel, students, and employers located in five exemplary planning districts. All districts had a full-time supervisor for adult programs, employed full- and…
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Adult Programs, Adult Vocational Education, Advisory Committees
Miller, Larry; And Others – 1982
A study described the policies and procedures utilized in exemplary adult vocational education programs in five school planning districts in Ohio. The study, which entailed an analysis of programs involving 34,618 students and 832 instructors, focused on program implementation and administration, student goals and outcomes, instructor…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Advisory Committees, Coordination
Wiley, Edward W.; Mathis, William J.; Garcia, David R. – Education Policy Research Unit, 2005
This study finds that nearly every school in the Great Lakes states is threatened to fail the Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) requirements mandated by the federal "No Child Left Behind" (NCLB) Act. NCLB holds schools and districts accountable for student achievement on state standardized tests and schools that do not make AYP face…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Social Problems, Sanctions, Federal Legislation
National Council on Employment Policy (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1980
This evaluation of programs conducted in fiscal 1978 under the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act (YEDPA) consists of an overall picture of the 1978 YEDPA program experience and case studies of programs in 12 states. Findings and recommendations are presented concerning the implementation of YEDPA programs by Comprehensive Employment…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Career Awareness, Career Education, Case Studies
