Achieve has released a publication identifying the key areas that state policymakers will need to consider to implement the new common core standards with fidelity. The guide is organized by topic with short chapters and is meant to be the starting point from which state and district leaders and their allies can organize and begin the necessary discussions around key topics to successfully implement the standards.
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This policy brief from the Data Quality Campaign outlines some of the critical challenges facing states and districts as they develop and implement policies based on the teacher/student data link and provides guidance on the emerging best practices for effective implementation.
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The National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality (TQ Center) has released a new Center Tips & Tools Key Issue describing available strategies and resources for evaluating school principals.
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The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI) released a brief summarizing the reform efforts of five urban school districts discussed in the recently published book, Bringing School Reform to Scale (Harvard Education Press, 2009). In the book, the author uses the stories of five urban school districts to make the case that raising achievement for all students requires systemic change. "These five award-winning districts demonstrated either higher performance or greater improvement than similar districts in their states. The practices and reform paths of each district offer lessons for educators and policymakers on how to move whole districts from unacceptable to noteworthy performance."
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The National High School Center has created a new informational blog that "provides an objective perspective on the latest research, topical issues, and events that affect high school improvement and other related national, state, and local K–12 initiatives. Authored by staff and external experts from the National High School Center and updated several times per week, High School Matters offers insight into specific evidence-based information and resources for readers interested in staying abreast of emerging and recent high school improvement activities, as well as snapshots of promising and effective practices."
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The U.S. Department of Education's new ED Data Express website is designed to improve the public's ability to access and explore high-value, state-level education data collected by the U.S. Department of Education. The site currently includes data from EDFacts, Consolidated State Performance Reports (CSPR), State Accountability Workbooks, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP), the College Board, and the Department's Budget Service office.
Included are three tools that allow users to access and view the data: a State Snapshots page, a Data Element Explorer, and a Build a State Table page. The State Snapshot pages include charts and tables with key data for each state. The Data Element Explorer allows users to view a single element across all states, both graphically and in a table. The Build a State Table page allows users to build customized tables by selecting specific data elements and specific states.
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The Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE), released a paper exploring the past and future outlook for education absent productivity gains. The authors discuss several areas in which labor-intensive businesses have improved productivity: information technology, deregulation, redefinition of the product, increased efficiency in the supply chain, investments by key beneficiaries, production process innovations, carefully defined workforce policies, and organizational change. They conclude with a five-step agenda for finding the cure for Baumol's disease ("the tendency of labor-intensive organizations to become more expensive over time but not any more productive") in public education.
