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| improving america's schools act: Improving America's Schools Act of 1994 United States, 1994 |
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| improving america's schools act: Improving America's Schools Act of 1994 Barry Leonard, 1999-09 Complete text of the act which extended for 5 years the authorizations of appropriations for the program under the Elem. & Sec. Educ. Act of 1965. Covers: helping disadvantaged children meet high standards; the Eisenhower Professional Develop. Program; technology for educ. safe & drug-free schools & communities; magnet schools, women's educ. equity, school dropout problems; innovative educ. program strategies; bilingual educ., language enhancement, & language acquisition program; impact aid; Indian, Native Hawaiian, & Alaska Native educ.; programs of national significance; coordination services; school facilities infrastructure improvement; & improving educ. |
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| improving america's schools act: The Education Mayor Kenneth K. Wong, 2007 In 2002 the No Child Left Behind Act rocked America's schools with new initiatives for results-based accountability. But years before NCLB was signed, a new movement was already under way by mayors to take control of city schools from school boards and integrate the management of public education with the overall governing of the city. The Education Mayor is a critical look at mayoral control of urban school districts, beginning with Boston's schools in 1992 and examining more than 100 school districts in 40 states. The authors seek to answer four central questions: * What does school governance look like under mayoral leadership? * How does mayoral control affect school and student performance? * What are the key factors for success or failure of integrated governance? * How does mayoral control effect practical changes in schools and classrooms? The results of their examination indicate that, although mayoral control of schools may not be appropriate for every district, it can successfully emphasize accountability across the education system, providing more leverage for each school district to strengthen its educational infrastructure and improve student performance. Based on extensive quantitative data as well as case studies, this analytical study provides a balanced look at America's education reform. As the first multidistrict empirical examination and most comprehensive overall evaluation of mayoral school reform, The Education Mayor is a must-read for academics, policymakers, educational administrators, and civic and political leaders concerned about public education. |
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| improving america's schools act: Improving America's Schools Act United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor, 1994 |
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| improving america's schools act: Improving America's Schools Act, (P.L. 103-382) North Dakota. Department of Public Instruction, 1996 |
| improving america's schools act: Improving America's Schools Act (IASA-P.L. 103-382). Maine. IASA Clearinghouse, 1997 |
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| improving america's schools act: H.R. 3130, the Improving America's Schools Act of 1993 United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Human Resources and Intergovernmental Relations Subcommittee, 1998 |
| improving america's schools act: Improving America's Schools Act of 1994. June 24 (legislative Day, June 7), 1994. -- Ordered to be Printed United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources, 1994 |
| improving america's schools act: Higher Education Amendments of 1992 United States, 1992 |
| improving america's schools act: Improving America's Schools Act. Conference Report to Accompany H.R. 6. September 28, 1994. -- Ordered to be Printed United States. Congress. House, 1994 |
| improving america's schools act: Improving America's Schools Act United States. Congress, 1994 |
| improving america's schools act: Learning to Improve Anthony S. Bryk, Louis M. Gomez, Alicia Grunow, Paul G. LeMahieu, 2015 Using ideas borrowed from improvement science, Learning to Improve shows how a process of disciplined inquiry can be combined with the use of networks to identify, adapt, and successfully scale up promising interventions in education. Rather than implementing fast and learning slow, the authors believe educators should adopt a more rigorous approach to improvement that allows the field to learn fast to implement well. The authors focus on six principles that represent the foundational elements for improvement science carried out in networked communities: Make the work problem-specific and user-centered Focus on variation in performance See the system that produces the current outcomes We cannot improve at scale what we cannot measure Use disciplined inquiry to drive improvement Accelerate learning through networked communities Learning to Improve offers a new paradigm for research and development in education that promises to be a powerful driver of improvement for the nation's schools and colleges. In this hopeful and accessible volume, Bryk and his colleagues describe six tenets for addressing vexing problems of educational practice. Yes, systematic actions guided by serious scientific inquiry can lead to improvements in a vast array of contexts, topics, and settings. Drawing on numerous real life examples and illustrations, the authors demonstrate how to develop and then critically execute good ideas to produce reliably positive outcomes. -- John Q. Easton, distinguished senior fellow, Spencer Foundation Anthony S. Bryk is the president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Louis M. Gomez holds the MacArthur Chair in Digital Media and Learning in the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and is a senior partner at Carnegie. Alicia Grunow is a senior partner and co-director of the Center for Networked Improvement at Carnegie. Paul G. LeMahieu is the senior vice president for programs at Carnegie and the former superintendent of education for the state of Hawaii. |
| improving america's schools act: Improving America's Schools National Research Council, Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy, 1996-11-15 Reform of American education is largely motivated by concerns about our economic competitiveness and American's standard of living. Yet, few if any of the public school reform agendas incorporate economic principles or research findings. Improving America's Schools explores how education and economic research can help produce, in the words of Harvard's Dale W. Jorgenson, a unified framework for future education reform. This book presents the perspectives of noted experts, including Eric A. Hanushek, author of Making Schools Work, on creating incentives for improved school and student performance; Under Secretary of Education Marshall S. Smith on the Clinton Administration's reform program; and Rebecca Maynard, University of Pennsylvania, on the education of the disadvantaged. This volume explores these areas: The importance of schooling to labor market success. The prospects for combining school-based management with teacher incentives to gain the best of both approaches. The potential of recent innovations in student achievement testing, including new value-added indicators. The economic factors involved in maintaining an adequate stock of effective teachers. The volume also explores why, despite similar standards of living, France, the Netherlands, England, Scotland, and the United States produce different levels of education achievement. Improving America's Schools informs the current debate over school reform with a fresh perspective, examples, and data. This readable volume will be of interest to policymakers, researchers, educators, and education administrators as well as economists and employersâ€it is also readily accessible to concerned parents and the larger community. |
| improving america's schools act: Improving America's Schools Act of 1994. Report of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, on H.R. 6 Together with Minority, Supplemental, and Additional Views (including Cost Estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). February 16, 1994. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and Ordered to be Printed United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor, 1994 |
| improving america's schools act: Closing the achievement gap the impact of standards-based education reform on student performance : draft report for commissioners' review. , 2004 |
| improving america's schools act: Improving America's Schools Act of 1994 United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor, 1994 |
| improving america's schools act: Hawaii's Preliminary Consolidated Plan , 1995 The Improving America's Schools Act of 1994 has provided both the challenge and the opportunity for reviewing, revising, and/or restructuring the delivery system for federal programs in Hawaii. This plan contains material related to various parts of this plan and how they will be addressed in Hawaiʻi. |
| improving america's schools act: Reinventing America's Schools David Osborne, 2017-09-05 From David Osborne, the author of Reinventing Government--a biting analysis of the failure of America's public schools and a comprehensive plan for revitalizing American education. In Reinventing America's Schools, David Osborne, one of the world's foremost experts on public sector reform, offers a comprehensive analysis of the charter school movements and presents a theory that will do for American schools what his New York Times bestseller Reinventing Government did for public governance in 1992. In 2005, when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the city got an unexpected opportunity to recreate their school system from scratch. The state's Recovery School District (RSD), created to turn around failing schools, gradually transformed all of its New Orleans schools into charter schools, and the results are shaking the very foundations of American education. Test scores, school performance scores, graduation and dropout rates, ACT scores, college-going rates, and independent studies all tell the same story: the city's RSD schools have tripled their effectiveness in eight years. Now other cities are following suit, with state governments reinventing failing schools in Newark, Camden, Memphis, Denver, Indianapolis, Cleveland, and Oakland. In this book, Osborne uses compelling stories from cities like New Orleans and lays out the history and possible future of public education. Ultimately, he uses his extensive research to argue that in today's world, we should treat every public school like a charter school and grant them autonomy, accountability, diversity of school designs, and parental choice. |
| improving america's schools act: H.R. 3130, the Improving America's Schools Act of 1993 United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Human Resources and Intergovernmental Relations Subcommittee, 1998 |
| improving america's schools act: A Bill to Amend the Improving America's Schools Act of 1994 to Make Permanent the Favorable Treatment of Need-based Educational Aid Under the Antitrust Laws United States. Congress. House, 2007 |
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| improving america's schools act: Class Warfare Steven Brill, 2011-08-16 The book is filled with extraordinary people taking extraordinary paths: a young woman who goes into teaching almost by accident, then becomes so talented and driven that fighting burnout becomes her biggest challenge; an antitrust lawyer who almost brought down Bill Gates's Microsoft and now forms a partnership with Bill and Melinda Gates to overhaul New York's schools; a naive Princeton student who launches an army of school reformers with her senior thesis; a California teachers' union lobbyist who becomes the mayor of Los Angeles and then the union's prime antagonist; a stubborn young teacher who, as a child growing up on Park Avenue, had been assumed to be learning disabled but ends up co-founding the nation's most successful charter schools; and an anguished national union leader who walks a tightrope between compromising enough to save her union and giving in so much that her members will throw her out. |
| improving america's schools act: Schoolhouses, Courthouses, and Statehouses Eric A. Hanushek, Alfred A. Lindseth, 2009-04-27 Improving public schools through performance-based funding Spurred by court rulings requiring states to increase public-school funding, the United States now spends more per student on K-12 education than almost any other country. Yet American students still achieve less than their foreign counterparts, their performance has been flat for decades, millions of them are failing, and poor and minority students remain far behind their more advantaged peers. In this book, Eric Hanushek and Alfred Lindseth trace the history of reform efforts and conclude that the principal focus of both courts and legislatures on ever-increasing funding has done little to improve student achievement. Instead, Hanushek and Lindseth propose a new approach: a performance-based system that directly links funding to success in raising student achievement. This system would empower and motivate educators to make better, more cost-effective decisions about how to run their schools, ultimately leading to improved student performance. Hanushek and Lindseth have been important participants in the school funding debate for three decades. Here, they draw on their experience, as well as the best available research and data, to show why improving schools will require overhauling the way financing, incentives, and accountability work in public education. |
| improving america's schools act: Improving America's Schools Act of 1993$dThe Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and Amendments of Other Acts , 1993 |
| improving america's schools act: Charter Schools at the Crossroads Chester E. Finn (Jr.), Bruno V. Manno, Brandon L. Wright, 2016 This is a book by several charter school advocates taking stock of the past, present, and future of the charter movement.-- |
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| improving america's schools act: Protecting the Privacy of Student Records Dona Cheung, Barbara Clements, Ellen Pechman, 1999-09 The primary purpose of this document is to help state & local education agencies & schools develop adequate policies & procedures to protect information about students & their families from improper release, while satisfying the need for school officials to make sound management, instructional, & service decisions. Sections include: a primer for privacy; summary of key federal laws; protecting the privacy of individuals during the data collection process; securing the privacy of data maintained & used within an agency; providing parents access to their child's records; & releasing information outside an agency. 5 appendices. |
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| improving america's schools act: U.S. Education Reform and National Security Joel I. Klein, Condoleezza Rice, 2014-05-14 The United States' failure to educate its students leaves them unprepared to compete and threatens the country's ability to thrive in a global economy and maintain its leadership role. This report notes that while the United States invests more in K-12 public education than many other developed countries, its students are ill prepared to compete with their global peers. According to the results of the 2009 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), an international assessment that measures the performance of 15-year-olds in reading, mathematics, and science every three years, U.S. students rank fourteenth in reading, twenty-fifth in math, and seventeenth in science compared to students in other industrialized countries. The lack of preparedness poses threats on five national security fronts: economic growth and competitiveness, physical safety, intellectual property, U.S. global awareness, and U.S. unity and cohesion, says the report. Too many young people are not employable in an increasingly high-skilled and global economy, and too many are not qualified to join the military because they are physically unfit, have criminal records, or have an inadequate level of education. The report proposes three overarching policy recommendations: implement educational expectations and assessments in subjects vital to protecting national security; make structural changes to provide students with good choices; and, launch a national security readiness audit to hold schools and policymakers accountable for results and to raise public awareness. |
| improving america's schools act: The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) and Its Reauthorization as the Improving America's Schools Act (IASA) with Its Impact on Funding, Education Policy, and Supporting the Change for Improvement of Student Achievement , 2021 A comparison of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965 and the Improving America's Schools Act (IASA) of 1994 within the time period they were written in, and contextualizing them historically to discuss their failures and successes. This thesis will examine how they were shaped on a national level by politicians and political activists to create a more equitable system so that funding was beneficial to all students. Education policy formed itself to funding and student achievement as achievement was what determined funding. |
| improving america's schools act: The Transformation of Title IX R. Shep Melnick, 2018-03-06 One civil rights-era law has reshaped American society—and contributed to the country's ongoing culture wars Few laws have had such far-reaching impact as Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. Intended to give girls and women greater access to sports programs and other courses of study in schools and colleges, the law has since been used by judges and agencies to expand a wide range of antidiscrimination policies—most recently the Obama administration’s 2016 mandates on sexual harassment and transgender rights. In this comprehensive review of how Title IX has been implemented, Boston College political science professor R. Shep Melnick analyzes how interpretations of equal educational opportunity have changed over the years. In terms accessible to non-lawyers, Melnick examines how Title IX has become a central part of legal and political campaigns to correct gender stereotypes, not only in academic settings but in society at large. Title IX thus has become a major factor in America's culture wars—and almost certainly will remain so for years to come. |
| improving america's schools act: Language Ideologies Roseann Duenas Gonzalez, Ildiko Melis, NCTE, 2021-10-14 How do educators balance the rights of the rapidly growing percentage of the United States' population whose first language is not English or whose English differs from standard usage with the rights of the majority of students whose first and generally only language is English? This two-volume set addresses the complicated and divisive issues at the heart of the debate over language diversity and the English Only movement in the U.S. public education. Blending social, political, and legal analyses of the ideologies of language with perspectives on the impact of the English Only movement on education and on classrooms at all levels, Language Ideologies: Critical Perspectives on the Official English Movement offers a wide range of perspectives that teachers and literacy advocates can use to inform practice as well as policy. This exhaustive, two-volume collection not only updates existing information on the English Only movement in the United States, but also includes the international context, looking at the emergence of English as a world language through a postcolonial lens. The complexity of the debate is also reflected in the exceptionally diverse list of contributors, who speak from varying disciplines and backgrounds including sociology, linguistics, university administration, the ACLU, law, ESL, and English. Both volumes explore the political, legislative, and social implications of language ideologies. Volume 1: Education and the Social Implications of Official Language focuses in particular on the consequences for the classroom. In Volume 2: History, Theory, and Policy, the focus is on the implications for policymakers and language-program administrators. |
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