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Parsi, Ace; Duffield, Barbara – National Association of State Boards of Education, 2016
As state and district leaders evaluate characteristics of their student populations, many will find one number particularly startling: The number of homeless students has doubled in less than a decade. States can take several actions to serve these students better, some of which are incorporated in the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). Some of…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Youth, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation
Achieve, Inc., 2018
"Transforming Science Assessment: Systems for Innovation," is a series of resources designed to provide state education leaders with: (1) Information about how states are currently pursuing statewide assessment systems in science; (2) Analyses of what features influence different approaches, with an eye to supporting state leaders as…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Secondary School Science, Science Instruction, Science Tests
New Jersey Department of Education, 2012
New Jersey is preparing to implement a statewide educator evaluation system in the 2013-14 school year. As part of this process, an Evaluation Pilot Advisory Committee (EPAC) was convened in September 2011. The EPAC consisted of 22 appointed members from various stakeholder groups. Its charge was to make recommendations to the New Jersey…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, State Programs, Advisory Committees, State Departments of Education
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Chen, Chen-Su – National Center for Education Statistics, 2011
This report presents findings on the numbers of public school students and staff in the United States and other jurisdictions in school year 2009-10, using data from the State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education of the Common Core of Data (CCD) survey system. The CCD is an annual collection of data that are reported by state…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Public Schools, Full Time Equivalency, Elementary Secondary Education
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National Center for Education Statistics, 2013
Educators, parents, and the public depend on accurate, valid, reliable, and timely information about student academic performance. Testing irregularities--breaches of test security or improper administration of academic testing--undermine efforts to use those data to improve student achievement. Unfortunately, there have been high-profile and…
Descriptors: Testing, Best Practices, Testing Problems, Integrity
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Stillwell, Robert; Sable, Jennifer; Plotts, Chris – National Center for Education Statistics, 2011
This report presents the number of high school graduates, the Averaged Freshman Graduation Rate (AFGR), and the dropout data for grades 9-12 for public schools in school year 2008-09. State Education Agencies report these counts of graduates, dropouts, and enrollments to the National Center for Education Statistics' (NCES) Common Core of Data…
Descriptors: High Schools, Public Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Graduation Rate