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ACT 2012 National Curriculum Survey
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The Survey asks educators about what they teach in their courses and how important they feel various topics are for students to know to be succcessful in the courses and future courses. The survey also targeted policy implications on preparing for higher standards. Queried educators included those teaching at the middle school level all the way through the postscondary level. |
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Eduployment: Creating Opportunity Policies for America's You
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The paper, Eduployment: Creating Opportunity Policies for America's Youth, calls for powerful "opportunity" policies to address the crisis in education and employment for youth in the United States, especially our young people who are falling through the cracks in public systems of education, child welfare, and juvenile justice. The paper introduces the concept of "eduployment," which recognizes that learning and work are inextricably linked and opportunity policies for youth must prepare young people for postsecondary success, rather than the outmoded college or career tracks. |
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Report on Strategies for Improving Community College Student Success
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In April 2013, Our Piece of the Pie released this report, entitled "Pathways through College: Strategies for Improving Community College Student Success." It outlines the completion challenge facing community college students across the country and summarizes the strategies the colleges can pursue to improve student success. |
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Can Personalized Text Messages and Peer Mentor Outreach Increase College Going Among Low-Income High School Graduates?
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This academic paper, written by Benjamin Castleman of Harvard University and Lindsay Page of Harvard's Center for Education Policy Research, investigates text messaging and peer mentor outreach as two promising approaches to inform students of college-related summer tasks and to connect them to professional support when they need help. |
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Trends and Challenges for Low-Wage Workers
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This report, released by the Economic Policy Institute in April 2012, focuses on low-wage workers- who they are, where they work, where they live, and what their future challenges may be in regards ti education/skill requirements, job quality, and wages. |
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Emerging Federal Role for Competency Education
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This report, released on April 25, 2013, is the the first part of KnowledgeWorks' "Competency Education Series." The report is designed to help policymakers develop a deeper understanding of the competency model, the growing national movement, and key barriers within federal accountability and assessment systems that pose a challenge to this work. |
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2013 Annual Report: Actions Needed to Reduce Fragmentation, Overlap, and Duplication and Achieve Other Financial Benefits
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This report, issued by the Government Accountability Office in early April 2013, provides an update on issues referneced in the 2011 and 2012 reports while also identifying more areas of concern. The goal of this series of publications is to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of federal government programs and activities. |
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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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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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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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