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Eight characteristics of effective school boards: At a glance
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Learn About: Evaluating Performance. Eight characteristics of effective school boards: At a glance. Eight characteristics of effective school boards: At a glance. What makes an effective school board – one that positively impacts student achievement? From a research perspective, it’s a complex question. It involves evaluating virtually all functions of a board, from internal governance and policy formulation to communication with teachers, building administrators, and the public. 2 Effective school board...
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Still learning—reading beyond grade three: At a glance
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Learn About: Evaluating Performance. Still learning reading beyond grade three. Still learning reading beyond grade three: At a glance. Learning to read doesn’t end in elementary school. Even students who are strong readers by the end of third grade need to develop more advanced reading skills to succeed in middle and high school. Progress in reading achievement stalls in the upper grades. Just over one-quarter (26 percent) of U.S. eighth graders scored "below basic" on Main NAEP. Students sc...Twenty-se...
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Keeping kids in school: At a glance
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Learn About: Evaluating Performance. Keeping kids in school: At a glance. Keeping kids in school: At a glance. In recent years, states have focused much attention on student achievement, but little on how many students ultimately leave school with a diploma in hand. This is changing: Nearly every governor has pledged to develop tougher ways to measure graduation rates at the same time that the No Child Left Behind Act has begun requiring states to hold schools and districts accountable for the results.
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Learning to Read, Reading to Learn: At a Glance
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Learn About: Evaluating Performance. Learning to Read, Reading to Learn: At a Glance. Learning to Read, Reading to Learn: At a Glance. But struggling readers rarely catch up with their peers academically and are four times more likely to drop out of high school, lowering their earning power as adults and possibly costing society in welfare and other supports (Hernandez, 2011). Faced with these unequal outcomes, many states are working to improve third-grade reading through assessments to pinpoint problem...
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Understanding the Common Core
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Learn About: Evaluating Performance. Understanding the Common Core. Understanding the Common Core. Four years later, more than 40 states and the District of Columbia are in the midst of implementing the Common Core in their public schools. Yet the public remains mostly unaware of the new standards or how they will affect schooling in their communities. On the Same Page 2.0: Effective Implementation of College- and Career-ready Standards Through Labor-Management Collaboration (pdf). More than 40 states ha...
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The Path Least Taken: At a Glance
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Learn About: Evaluating Performance. The Path Least Taken: At a Glance. The Path Least Taken: At a Glance. ELS is a study conducted by the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) that followed a nationally representative sample of 15,000 high school sophomores from 750 high schools in 2002 through high school and into college and/or the workforce. Is college a distant thought for many high school graduates? In our analysis of data from the U.S. Department of...Put a...
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Credit recovery programs: at a glance
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Learn About: Evaluating Performance. Credit recovery programs: at a glance. Credit recovery programs: at a glance. In-person credit recovery programs most closely resemble old summer school classes. The setting is traditional and usually there are no online components. Classes take place after school or at night a few times a week during a semester, over the summer in concentrated and abbreviated sessions, or on weekends. Questions about credit recovery. Is credit recovery effective? More and more, credi...
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Evaluating performance
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Learn About: Evaluating Performance. You might also be interested in. Learn more about policies that affect education. A guide to standards-based reform. Consumer's guide to education research. A new national conversation on standards? Trends in Teacher Evaluation: At A Glance. Since 2009, the vast majority of states have made significant changes to how teachers are evaluated, this report explores those trends. Teacher pay for performance: At a glance. Special education: At a glance. This guide provides ...
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Student Resources | Hokanson's American History
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Hokanson's American History. It's happening now! Movie Trailer Projects Fall 2015. Early America – Government. The Civil War and Reconstruction. The Jazz Age and The Great Depression. Postwar America and The Present Day. Geography and Map Skills. Vocabulary and Reading Activities. What are your strengths? What are my Learning Strengths (.pdf). Multiple Intelligences Product Grid. The American Journey Modern Times. Outline of U.S. History (Online Textbook). Freedom a History of US (PBS). Gapminder http:/ ...
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Money matters: At a glance
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Learn About: Evaluating Performance. Money matters: At a glance. Money matters: At a glance. Nothing riles the U.S citizenry more than taxes—and how those taxes are spent. We are culturally wired to question the fiscal decision making of those in authority, and as a result debates swirl around the subject of school funding. It’s also important to understand. Where does the money come from? The federal government is not the biggest contributor. On average, federal funds currently make up approximately...
