This publication highlights how state leaders tackle data interoperability with the emergence of data standards for student information, assessment, digital content, and other educational applications. While states are at various maturity levels for interoperability, each state shares goals for interoperability, the drivers for those goals,…

This report provides six mini-case studies of higher education policy reforms enacted in other states, exploring the important role that state policy leadership played in developing, promoting, and implementing these policies aimed at improving higher education outcomes, and discussing the relevance of each reform effort for California. This…

AN INVESTIGATION WAS CONDUCTED--(1) TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT PROBLEMS TO WHICH RESEARCH SHOULD BE APPLIED BY STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION (SDE) ADMINISTRATORS AND RESEARCH PERSONNEL, (2) TO INCREASE THE COMPETENCE OF SDE RESEARCH PERSONNEL IN THE IDENTIFICATION OF RESEARCH PROBLEMS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF RESEARCH DESIGNS, (3) TO FORMULATE…

States are in the leadership position to effect pervasive and comprehensive changes needed in the educational system. There exist five key dimensions for analyzing initiatives resulting in systemic changes: (1) infusiveness, building upon existing knowledge; (2) pervasiveness, effecting improvements in all key components of the system, including…