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Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2025
On July 31, 2018, the "Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act" (Public Law 115-224) (Perkins V, the Act, or statute), was signed into law and thus reauthorized and amended the "Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006." The U.S. Department of Education's (Department) Office of…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Vocational Education, Guides
Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, US Department of Education, 2025
This playbook provides ways in which Governors and teams can blur the lines between high school, postsecondary education, and the workforce. Governors play a significant role to Raise the Bar for student success by developing an "education-to-workforce system" that focuses on Unlocking Career Success.
Descriptors: State Government, State Officials, Governance, High Schools
National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment, 2025
State leaders have long recognized the value of statewide tests. Many had well-developed testing systems long before the No Child Left Behind Act, signed in 2002, required annual assessments in grades 3-8. Another sign of that recognition is the recent plethora of new state testing requirements for K-3 students. But would states continue to test…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Measurement, State Government
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Drake, Anna; Marsicano, Christopher – Texas Education Review, 2018
This paper applies political discourse analysis to an examination of gubernatorial rhetoric and agenda setting around higher education in Texas during Governor Rick Perry's leadership, from 2000-2015. The authors analyzed 28 gubernatorial speeches using manifest content analysis in STATA and qualitative coding via pattern matching in Atlas.ti.…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Agenda Setting, Higher Education, State Officials
Marion, Scott – National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment, 2016
The Elementary and Secondary Schools Education Act (ESEA) was finally reauthorized as the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). The reauthorization was long overdue and with its passage comes much hype and some misinformation about what the law permits and does not permit. The purpose of this brief is to outline some of the key accountability…
Descriptors: State Officials, State Policy, Policy Formation, Accountability
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Straubhaar, Rolf – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2017
The purpose of this article is to ethnographically document the market-based ideological assumptions of Rio de Janeiro's educational policymakers, and the ways in which those assumptions have informed these policymakers' decision to implement value-added modeling-based teacher evaluation policies. Drawing on the anthropological literature on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Value Added Models, High Stakes Tests, Accountability
Koppich, Julia; Humphrey, Daniel; Venezia, Andrea; Nodine, Thad; Jaeger, Laura – Education Insights Center, 2017
Over the next three years, the California State Board of Education (SBE) and the California Department of Education (CDE) will refine the college and career readiness (CCR) measures in the state's school accountability system. Determining which measures to use, given that they need to be robust, useful, equitable, and cost effective--and…
Descriptors: Measurement, Educational Indicators, College Readiness, Career Readiness