ERIC Number: ED511090
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2010-Apr-5
Pages: 7
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: N/A
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Straight A's: Public Education Policy and Progress. Volume 10, Number 7
Alliance for Excellent Education
"Straight A's: Public Education Policy and Progress" is a biweekly newsletter that focuses on education news and events both in Washington, DC and around the country. The following articles are included in this issue: (1) "Nation's Report Card": Reading Scores Flat for Fourth Graders; Eighth Graders Improve by One Point; (2) Moving on Up: Delaware and Tennessee Win First Phase of the Race to the Top Competition; (3) "MetLife Survey of the American Teacher": Only Half of Teachers Think Their Students Will Attend a Two- or Four-Year College after High School; (4) "Beating the Odds": New Report Finds that Urban School Districts Are Improving Student Outcomes but Still Trailing State Averages; (5) Are Test Scores Primarily Static? Turning around a Failing School Is "Extremely Difficult" but Not Impossible, According to New Report; and (6) Report Examines Connection between Health and High School Dropouts. (Contains 1 footnote.)
Descriptors: Public Education, Reading Achievement, Scores, Grade 4, Grade 8, Educational Change, Competition, Grants, Teacher Attitudes, Postsecondary Education, Educational Attainment, Urban Schools, Educational Improvement, Outcomes of Education, School Effectiveness, Low Achievement, Failure, Dropouts, High Schools, Correlation, Health, Diseases, Children, Mental Disorders, Adolescents, At Risk Students
Alliance for Excellent Education. 1201 Connecticut Avenue NW Suite 901, Washington, DC 20036. Tel: 202-828-0828; Fax: 202-828-0821; Web site: http://www.all4ed.org
Publication Type: Collected Works - Serial; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
Audience: Parents; Policymakers
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: Alliance for Excellent Education
Identifiers - Location: Connecticut; Delaware; Florida; Hawaii; Kentucky; Missouri; New Mexico; Pennsylvania; Tennessee; Utah
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: National Assessment of Educational Progress
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A