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Region 16 Comprehensive Center, 2025
Reading and literacy are woven through Alaska's Education Challenge. The Alaska Reads Act, signed into law in June 2022, is focused on supporting all students to read at grade level by the end of third grade. Region 16 is working with Alaska's Department of Education and Early Development (DEED) to provide capacity-building services by: (1)…
Descriptors: Literacy, Evidence Based Practice, Reading Instruction, State Departments of Education
Louisiana Department of Education, 2022
This updated Louisiana Comprehensive Literacy Plan contains the following sections: (1) Louisiana's Literacy Pillars; (2) Literacy Data from the Fall 2021 Assessment Reports; (3) Louisiana's Literacy Mission & Goals; (4) Louisiana Believes We Can Achieve Improved Literacy Outcomes; (5) BESE Policies Supporting Literacy; (6) Louisiana State…
Descriptors: Literacy, Educational Policy, State Policy, State Legislation
Louisiana Department of Education, 2021
This Louisiana Comprehensive Literacy Plan contains the following sections: (1) Louisiana's Literacy Pillars; (2) Literacy Data from the Fall 2020 Assessment Reports; (3) Literacy Mission and Goal; (4) Early Literacy Commission (ELC) Recommendations; (5) Louisiana Believes We Can Achieve Improved Literacy Outcomes; (6) Current Legislation…
Descriptors: Literacy, Educational Policy, State Policy, State Legislation
Lichtenstein, Robert – Communique, 2018
Dyslexia has been the recent focus of a groundswell of interest, advocacy, and legislative activity. Struck by this salient movement and its implications regarding practice, the author set out to investigate the dyslexia advocacy movement. While mandates and initiatives vary greatly from state to state, the motivation behind the advocacy efforts…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Parent Attitudes, Dyslexia, Reading Difficulties
National Institute for Excellence in Teaching, 2019
Every year we invest billions in professional development to build teachers' capacity to better address the diverse academic needs of every student. Yet student learning continues to fall short of expectations in too many places. We must ask the question: Is there a better way to invest in the professional learning of teachers across America? Our…
Descriptors: Teacher Leadership, Faculty Development, Educational Change, Instructional Effectiveness
Fredericks, Juliane R. – ProQuest LLC, 2015
This study focused on the federal and Illinois State the reform legislation titled the Performance Evaluation Reform Act and Senate Bill 7. The Performance Evaluation Reform Act or "PERA" was created from collaboration between stakeholders as Illinois competed in a federal competition titled "Race to the Top." The legislation…
Descriptors: Political Influences, Educational Change, Federal Government, Educational Legislation