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Download full textBlair, Julia – California Postsecondary Education Commission, 2009
This update contains analyses of legislative initiatives being tracked by California Postsecondary Education Commission (CPEC) staff. The positions indicated are those adopted by the Commission at the September 8, 2009, and earlier meetings. A matrix of bills monitored by CPEC staff is included.
Descriptors: State Legislation, Postsecondary Education, Educational Legislation, Access to Education
Grossman, Tabitha – NGA Center for Best Practices, 2009
The long-term health of each state's economy rests on the state's ability to educate and eventually employ citizens who contribute to its economy by filling jobs in a variety of sectors. With the globalization of the economy and shifts in supply and demand for a wide variety of occupations, students in public schools need effective teachers and…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Human Capital, Preservice Teacher Education, Educational Improvement
Stedron, Jennifer M.; Shah, Tajel; Bautsch, Brenda; Martin, Patricia; Deye, Sunny; Bailey, Lamar; Handel, Stephen J.; Vasavada, Natasha; Shen, Yilan; Exstrom, Michelle; Shelton, Sara; Santiago, Helen; Bell, Julie Davis; Quin, Bradley J.; Baum, Sandy; Bell, Julie Davis; Sturtevant, Anne; Bautsch, Brenda; Williams, Ronald; Kerouac, Pamela; Badolato, Vincent – College Board Advocacy & Policy Center, 2010
There are formidable challenges at every level of the system that confront students who aspire to enroll and succeed in college. In 2007, the College Board formed the Commission on Access, Admissions and Success in Higher Education to study the educational pipeline as a single continuum and identify solutions to increase the number of students who…
Descriptors: Public Policy, State Action, State Legislation, State Surveys
Goodman, Christie L., Ed. – Intercultural Development Research Association, 2010
Each edition of the IDRA Newsletter strives to provide many different perspectives on the issues in education topics discussed and to define its significance in the state and national dialogue. This issue focuses on Teaching Quality and includes: (1) Ensuring Teaching Quality in a Civil Rights Context (Bradley Scott); (2) An Unspoken Culture…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Civil Rights, Educational Change, Newsletters
Healthy Schools Network, Inc., 2010
Everybody knows that healthy school buildings contribute to student learning, reduce health and operating costs, and ultimately, increase school quality and competitiveness. However, 55 million of the nation's children attend public and private K-12 schools where poor air quality, hazardous chemicals and other unhealthy conditions make students…
Descriptors: Public Health, Health Insurance, Child Health, School Buildings
Ferguson, Doug – Research and Curriculum Unit, 2010
Secondary vocational-technical education programs in Mississippi are faced with many challenges resulting from sweeping educational reforms at the national and state levels. Schools and teachers are increasingly being held accountable for providing true learning activities to every student in the classroom. This accountability is measured through…
Descriptors: Welding, Educational Technology, Teaching Methods, Vocational Education
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Direct linkShapley, Kelly; Sheehan, Daniel; Maloney, Catherine; Caranikas-Walker, Fanny – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2010
In the study of the Technology Immersion model, high-need middle schools were "immersed" in technology by providing laptops for each teacher and student, instructional and learning resources, professional development, and technical and pedagogical support. This article reports third-year findings for the teacher component of the…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Middle Schools, Technology Integration, Educational Technology
Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, 2008
This position paper of the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges (ASCCC) examines issues of educational technology that involve policy and implementation matters important to local academic senates. In particular it includes current information regarding separate curriculum review and instructor-student contact. In general, this paper…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Distance Education, Governance, Educational Technology
Rosin, Matthew; Wilson, Kathy – EdSource, 2008
Although K-12 schools and community colleges share responsibility for the futures of a vast number of young Californians, and both are under pressure to improve student academic achievement, the groups operate under separate governance systems, pursue distinct missions, gauge success based on different measures, and are seldom looked at together.…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, High Schools, Readiness, Alignment (Education)
Goodman, Christie L., Ed. – Intercultural Development Research Association, 2008
Each edition of the IDRA Newsletter strives to provide many different perspectives on the issues in education topics discussed and to define its significance in the state and national dialogue. This issue focuses on Enlightened Public Policy and includes: (1) The Status of School Finance Equity in Texas (Albert Cortez); and (2) Disciplinary…
Descriptors: Educational Equity (Finance), Court Litigation, State Aid, Educational Finance
Fallon, Gerald; Paquette, Jerald – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2008
This critical policy study provides an understanding of the different actors--individuals, interest groups, and other organizations--involved in influencing and defining, through their narratives what public education in BC ought to be, thus capturing the core intellectual dispositions that informed and determined the kind of policy problems that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Education, School Choice, Accountability
Rose, Susan – National Center on Student Progress Monitoring, 2007
Federal and state legislation has placed a renewed emphasis on accountability and academic outcomes among students who are deaf or hard of hearing. While much attention is given to norm-referenced standardized testing accommodations, there is a need for functional formative assessments for the purpose of monitoring students' academic progress.…
Descriptors: Testing Accommodations, Curriculum Based Assessment, State Legislation, Partial Hearing
Rhode Island Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, 2007
On January 8, 2002, the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) was reauthorized as the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). NCLB required states to establish a single accountability system that includes every school and district. Rhode Island proposed an accountability model incorporating NCLB requirements to the US Department of…
Descriptors: Report Cards, Elementary Secondary Education, State Legislation, Federal Legislation
America's Changing Attitudes toward Homosexuality, Civil Unions, and Same-Gender Marriage: 1977-2004
Avery, Alison; Chase, Justin; Johansson, Linda; Litvak, Samantha; Montero, Darrel; Wydra, Michael – Social Work, 2007
On May 17, 2004, Massachusetts became the first state to legalize same-gender marriage. From California to Missouri, nearly all states now face legislative challenges to the once firmly entrenched notion that marriage can only exist between a man and a woman. Public opinion polls conducted from 1977 to 2004 found that Americans' attitudes toward…
Descriptors: Marriage, Social Work, Public Opinion, Homosexuality
Engmark, Jill – 1990
In 1987, the Arizona legislature began a process of establishing statewide goals for the improvement of the state's educational system. A joint legislative committee developed specific goals in the areas of student achievement, high school graduation rate, and postschool employment and college enrollment. To produce the baseline data necessary in…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Databases, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
