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New Report Documents Growing Movement To Expand Learning Time Across United States (press release)

Linking Service-Learning and the Common Core State Standards: Alignment, Progress, and Obstacles

The Progress of Education Reform: The New Civics

School Attendance Age Limits

Compulsory School Age Requirements

Inequalities at the Starting Line: State Kindergarten Policies

State Pre-K Funding: 2012-13 School Year

Kindergarten Policy Characteristics

Number of Instructional Days/Hours in the School Year

Education Commission of the States to Build Blueprint for Underprepared High School Students

Moving the Needle on Degree Completion: The Legislative Role

Did you know that 25 states plus D.C. require the administration of a kindergarten readiness assessment? Get the details (and others) on ECS’ newly-updated comprehensive 50-state kindergarten database.

Educators’ Perceptions of How Schools Can Foster Successful Service-Learning

2012 Compilation of all ECS Policy Analysis, Databases, and Publications - full text (click here for shorter version)

Education-related proposals from the 2013 state of the state addresses

Resources for State Leaders Seeking to Improve School Safety

Core Principles for Transforming Remedial Education: A Joint Statement (also read the press release)

Education-Related Ballot Measures: 2012

2012 Gubernatorial Elections:
Outcomes and Education Priorities

registration is open for the 2013 forum
 
Learning Time in America report

Learning Time in America: Trends to Reform the American School Calendar

States and school districts around the country are making significant headway in their efforts to develop and implement innovative and cost-effective ways to expand learning time for students. This new report documents the growing movement to expand learning time across the United States.

Read the press release and the report.


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Achievement Gaps
Early Learning Assessments
Pre-K Assessments Fall Short on Teacher Performance, Study Says
Twenty states use student performance in the early grades to assess teachers, yet current evaluation systems don't provide an accurate picture of what's happening in the classroom, asserts a New America Foundation study. Researchers studied three types of assessments and found that none of them gauge what the youngest students know, nor can their results be applied to teacher performance. (Education Week, premium article access compliments of edweek.org, 05/15/13)

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