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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Goldsworthy, Heather; Supovitz, Jonathan; Riggan, Matthew – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2013
The College and Career Readiness Standards, referred to as the Common Core Learning Standards (CCLS) in New York City, are increasingly the focus of educational reform efforts across the United States. Each year for the past several years, the New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE) has created a set of focusing expectations for schools in…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Academic Standards, Educational Change, Core Curriculum
Supovitz, Jonathan; Ebby, Caroline B.; Sirinides, Philip – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2013
This interactive electronic report provides an overview of an innovative new instrument developed by researchers at the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) to authentically measure teachers' formative assessment practices in mathematics. The Teacher Analysis of Student Knowledge, or TASK, instrument assesses mathematics…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Student Evaluation, Formative Evaluation, Measures (Individuals)
Sirinides, Philip; Supovitz, Jonathan; Tognatta, Namrata; May, Henry – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2013
Beginning in 2005, the GE Foundation initiated a commitment of expertise and financial resources to a set of urban school districts to improve public education and enhance student achievement in mathematics and science. This report analyzes the impacts of the GE Foundation commitment to the partner districts by examining trends in student…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Public Education, Educational Change, Student Improvement
Supovitz, Jonathan – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2013
District policy makers never have more potential influence than when they are crafting a Policy. In this paper Jonathan Supovitz argues, that the success of an instructional policy depends to some extent on the choices made in its crafting before it is let loose upon the world. The way a policy is framed and designed has important implications for…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Instructional Design, Policy Formation, State Standards
Supovitz, Jonathan – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2013
The allure of using data to improve performance is a source of tremendous activity in the education field today. "Data use" has spurred a wide variety of reforms at all different levels of the education system, ranging from infrastructure augmentation to state databases, to district dashboard systems that collect and display an array of…
Descriptors: Data, Decision Making, Instructional Effectiveness, Intervention
Supovitz, Jonathan; Riggan, Matthew – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2012
Leading school change is a challenging endeavor. Successful leadership requires strategic and sustained effort, particularly in the shifting and uncertain environment of urban public schools. The concept of distributed leadership--in which multiple actors tackle the challenges of school leadership in concert--is a promising way to strengthen…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Program Evaluation, Instructional Leadership, Transformational Leadership