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| Accountability in Education
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Choices, Changes, and Challenges
This report examines the amount of time spent during the school week on core academic subjects and how that allocation of time across subjects has changed since school year 2001-02 when NCLB was enacted.
Atlas of Science Literacy
A comprehensive look at the coherency of state standards and what needs to be addressed in order to resolve gaps and get states aligned.
State Education Indicators
Systemic education improvement efforts need to be based on valid assessments of current conditions, data on the rate of improvement, and identification of problems.
High School Statistics
This isn't pretty but it's the truth and it covers all teh high schools in our diverse population. Includes additional reporting sources too.
Transforming High School for all Youth
A comprehensive resource guide to make this a call to action to transform high schools.
Criticisms of international assessments: Fact or fiction?
Do international comparisons of student performance provide any meaningful insights ...or?
Principals called key in failing schools
Nationally, the issue of attracting and retaining principals, particularly at the most challenging schools, has drawn attention from legislators and educators
Teacher Performance Pay
In a new era, with challenges and opportunities before us that were unimaginable in post-World War II America, our public schools need a far more nuanced approach to professional compensation — an approach that acknowledges teaching quality as our best guarantee of student achievement.
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| What About Teacher Retention?
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A Community Action Guide
Each school day, millions of children attending public schools across the nation are taught by caring, competent, knowledgeable teachers.
Benefits of Linking Teacher & Student Data
Policymakers
and practitioners now want more data to identify teacher characteristics and student achievement.
Teacher Retention
The turnover rate among teachers is significantly higher than for other occupations. The fact is, an alarming and unsustainable number of teachers are leaving
teaching during their first few years of teaching. The No Child Left Behind Act has stimulated a national effort to find highly qualified teachers for every classroom. But no teacher supply strategy will ever keep our classrooms staffed with quality teachers if we do not reverse the debilitating rate of teacher attrition. As we explore the numbers and the statistics, it is important to recognize that the teacher retention problem crosses all communities and all sectors of education
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Benefits of K-12 Education
If all students in the class of 2006 had graduated on time, the nation's
economy would have gained an additional $309 billion in income over their
lifetimes, concludes a report by the Washington-based Alliance for Excellent
Education.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, high school graduates in 2004 earned
almost $10,000 more than those who did not graduate from high school. Also,
dropouts are more likely to be unemployed, go to prison, and seek government
assistance-all factors that drain the economy.
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