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Beyond the Numbers: Data Use for Continuous Improvement of Programs Serving Disoconnected Youth
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This report, released by the American Youth Policy forum in December 2012, uses in-depth case studies to examine how three programs which serve disconnected youth are utilizing data as a tool for continuous program improvement and ongoing accountability. |
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Promising Practices for Community College Student Success
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This report, issued in 2012 by the Center for Community College Student Engagement, provides a first look at the data on promising practices and describes them from four perspectives: entering students describing their earliest college experiences; students addressing their overall college experiences, faculty members providing their perceptions of student engagement, and colleges focusing on their use of the practices. |
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Catching Up to College and Career Readiness - ACT Report
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This report, released by ACT in December 2012, finds that narrowing performance gaps for low-income studetns and students of color requires prevention interventions over remediation. In an effort to determine at what point in a student's education he or she is most able to catch up to grade-level standards, teh ACT team analyzes test scores of students between 4th and 8th grade and those between 8th and 12th grade. |
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Hawaii Career Ready Study 2012 Update
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This report, developed by Storyline Consulting, illustrates how the Hawaii State Department of Education's new K-12 Common Core State Standards align with Hawaii employers' expeectations for high quality employees. It also updates qualitative and quantitative infomration about employer neews in a more constricted economy. |
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Helping to Ensure Equal Access to Education - Report to the President from Department of Education
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This report documents the work of the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) during fiscal years 2009 through 2012. This work focused on three major themes: (1) greater productivity to meet a rising caseload, (2) supporting equity throughout the department, and (3) maximum impact, maximum engagement. |
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Federal public Education Revenues and the Sequester
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This report, released in November 2012 by the American Association of School Administrators, examines the role of federal education funding within the nation's schools across districts and states. It also analyzes the potentnial impact(s) of the funding reductions assocated with the sequestration in January 2013. |
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Focus on People to Change Data Culture- Report by Data Quality Campaign
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This report, released by the Data Quality Campaign in November 2012, discusses the current roadblocks to effective and effciitent data mangaement that meets people's needs. According to the report states have made great strides in implementing data systems, but there is still work to be done on the people side of the equation via governance structures, increasing data access for stakeholders, increasing capacity of all education stakeholders to effectively use data. |
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Portable, Stackable Credentials: A New Education Model for Industry-Specific Career Pathways
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The paper, released by the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation in November 2012, examines some of the new models being invented by innovators in education, business, and the government. It also inclides a call to action for educational institutions, employers, and policymakers to come together to build on these beginnings and design a system of portable, stackable credentials embedded in transparent, more easily navigable career pathways. |
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Sequestration and Its Implications for Youth Programming - NYEC Issue Brief
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This issue brief, released by NYEC in November 2012, discusses the origins of the sequestration of federal funding that is set for implementation in Janurary 2013. It also outlines the funding that will be affected and how, with a parituclar focus on youth-oriented activities. |
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A Fight for the Future: Education, Job Training, and the Fiscal Showdown
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This report, released by Young Invincibles and the National Priorities Project on November 15, 2012, discusses federal investments in young adutls in the context of economic challenges facing the next generation. |
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