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Direct linkMandy Savitz-Romer; Tara P. Nicola; Heather T. Rowan-Kenyon; Stephanie Carroll – Educational Policy, 2024
This study explores the prevalence and implementation of four key school counseling policies at the state level and to what extent they are monitored for positive impact on the school counseling profession. Drawing on an analysis of state school counseling policy documents and interviews with school counseling leaders from 30 state education…
Descriptors: School Counseling, State Departments of Education, State Policy, State Officials
Massell, Diane; Goertz, Margaret E.; Barnes, Carol A. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2015
For most of U.S. history, local communities were the primary arbiters of school quality. Beginning in the mid-twentieth century, states began assuming more and more control over school standards and outcomes. The question we seek to answer is whether and the extent to which a particular kind of local voice--the voice of education practitioners--is…
Descriptors: State Programs, Improvement Programs, Educational Policy, State Policy
Yatsko, Sarah; Lake, Robin; Bowen, Melissa; Cooley Nelson, Elizabeth – Peabody Journal of Education, 2015
In 2009, the federal government committed over $3 billion nationwide to help states and districts turn around their worst-performing schools. The U.S. Department of Education intended for the School Improvement Grants (SIGs) to spur dramatic change.This report looks at the results of a field study of the first-year implementation of those grants…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Federal Programs, Educational Improvement, Incentive Grants
Download full textPitre, Paul E. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2011
This study examines Washington State's attempt to move toward an integrated, P-20 system of education that enhances student transitions from high school to college. In analyzing Washington as a single case study, a profile of the state is developed on key access related characteristics. Data for this study were gathered utilizing fundamental case…
Descriptors: Position Papers, Legislators, Transitional Programs, Articulation (Education)
Palmer, Porter W. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2009
Since Federal regulations have given states the option to implement alternate assessments based on modified academic achievement standards (AA-MAS) as part of their accountability systems for a small group of students with disabilities, a number of states have made decisions about whether or not to develop and implement such an assessment.…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Academic Achievement, Accountability, Academic Standards
Keller, Bess – Education Week, 2005
In the three years that the Pinellas County, Florida, district has offered its more than 7,800 teachers a performance bonus as mandated by the state, exactly two have qualified and taken home the money. To get a paycheck topped up by 5 percent, Pinellas teachers are required to have had a hand in helping students raise their test scores by 120…
Descriptors: State Officials, Educational Finance, School Districts, Scores
