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Download full textSzekely, Amanda – NGA Center for Best Practices, 2014
As governors respond to the need to significantly improve the quality of public education, they should consider incorporating stronger actions to improve mathematics instruction as part of their overall reform agenda. Governors can take the following actions to promote high-quality mathematics instruction for young children: (1) Become a champion…
Descriptors: State Officials, Role, Mathematics Education, Early Childhood Education
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Direct linkYatsko, 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
Hoff, David J. – Education Week, 2005
North Carolina says it graduates 97 percent of its high school students, while Washington state reports it gives diplomas to just 66 percent. But researchers, using methods they believe are more accurate, estimate that the two states' graduation rates are essentially the same, at around 64 percent. Acknowledging that such disparities in data are…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Change, Graduation Rate, Graduation
