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Direct linkAmos, Jason, Ed. – Alliance for Excellent Education, 2011
"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) Kline Introduces State and Local Funding Flexibility Act: Bill Would Allow States and School Districts to Move Money…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Civil Rights, Foreign Countries, Politics of Education
Download full textCohn, Carl A. – Claremont Graduate University (NJ1), 2009
As a scholar/practitioner who has been involved for more than forty years in efforts to improve urban schools and districts, the author is struck by the confluence of factors that seem to be coming together to support this major new effort to rescue the neediest students in urban America. Is it possible that the idealism of the 1960s is finally…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Urban Schools, State Government, Educational Policy
Federal Literacy Facts: An Update on Literacy Related Developments at the National Level, April 2006
Movement for Canadian Literacy, 2006
This April 2006 issue of "Federal Literacy Facts" contains the following articles: (1) Transition at the National Literacy Secretariat (NLS); (2) The New Government Agenda: Finding Room for Literacy; (3) How Is the Transition at the NLS Affecting the Literacy Community?; and (4) Federal Accountability Act: Changing the Way Government…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Governance, Foreign Countries, Federal Legislation
Movement for Canadian Literacy, 2002
This January 2002 issue of "Federal Literacy Facts" contains the following sections: (1) The Skills and Learning Agenda; (2) Budget 2001; (3) Coming Soon: Green Paper on Skills and Learning; and (4) Ensuring a Strong Response from the Literacy Community.
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Federal Government, Skill Development, Budgets
Movement for Canadian Literacy, 2002
This December 2002 issue of "Federal Literacy Facts" contains the following sections: (1) Literacy Identified as Key Learning Priority at National Innovation Summit!; (2) Canadian Learning Institute Announced at Innovation Summit; (3) National Literacy Organizations Join Together to Call for a Pan-Canadian Literacy Strategy; (4) Literacy…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Foreign Countries, Adult Literacy, Literacy Education
Caspar, Emma, Ed. – Institute for Research on Poverty, 2008
The purpose of "Focus" is to provide coverage of poverty-related research, events, and issues, and to acquaint a large audience with the work of the Institute for Research on Poverty by means of short essays on selected pieces of research. This issue contains the following articles: (1) The new global labor market (Richard B. Freeman);…
Descriptors: Poverty, Child Welfare, Labor Market, Foreign Countries
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
