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Update on Job Training as Cross-Agency Priority Goal
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This report by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) provides an update on Job Training as it was idenitified as a Corss Agency Priority Goal for the federal Fiscal Year 2013 (October 2012-September 2013). This is the first quarterly update provided by OMB. |
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Youth Practitioner's Resource Guide to Supportive Services
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This Training and Employment Notice, issued by the Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration on April 12, 2013, announces a new guide to supportive services for youth. |
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Costs and Benefits of Using Tests that Help Students Learn
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This report, released by the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education, provides data on what staets and districts currently spend on tests; examines the failings of current multiple-choice tests; and analyzes the sots and opportunities of creating, implementing, and scoring assessments that ensure students are equipped with 21st century competencies. |
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Sequestration's Impact on ESEA Title I Allocations
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This table (prodiced by the Department of Education) includes the estimated impact of the sequestration of approximately 5% of federal funds for Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. This table includes the largest 100 school precincts. |
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DOL Notice on Calculating WIA Allotments in FY 2013
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This Training and Employment Notice, issued by the Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration on March 20, 2013, is meant to assist states in annual budget planning because of the lack oFy 2013 full year appropriations. It provides advance notice of potnential impacts of applying current deemographic and employment data on WIA allotment formulas. |
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Reducing Youth Incarceration Data Snapshot
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This brief data snapshot (released in February 2013) on reducing youth incarceration in the United States is from the Kids Count publication, produced by the Anne E. Casey Foundation. |
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The Impact of the Sequester on Communities Across America - Report
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This report, released by the Center for American Progress on February 22, 2013, outlines the impact of the Sequester at the state level. |
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Retention Best Practices: A Collection of Best Practices from North Carolina Community Colleges
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This report, compiled by the Student Development Services within the North Carolina Community Colegee System, discusses the best practices of several North Carolina Community Colleges in their efforts to address and imrpove retention by providing increased services, caring strategies, early interventions, and other methods and/or courses of action. Best practices are listed by college and topic with campus contact information included. |
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State Sector Strategies Coming of Age: Implications for State Workforce Policymakers
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The report describes current sector
strategies, discusses their difference from traditional workforce and economic
development programs, and describes actions that state administrators and
policymakers can take to create strategies and implement them effectively.
These strategies are among a small number of
workforce interventions with statistical evidence showing improvements for
workers in employment opportunities and in wage increases. |
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Strengthening High School Teaching and Learning in New Hampshire's Competency-Based System
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This report, released by the Alliance for Excellent
Education in January 2013, profiles how two high schools in New Hampshire made this shift and
examines the necessary changes at both the school and in state policy.
Competency-based advancement is an important part of New Hampshireâ??s strategy
for implementing the Common Core State Standards and meeting the state
department of educationâ??s goal that every student â??deserves a course of study
that allows him or her to learn in a deep, meaningful, and practical way.â?Ì |
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