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Building Capacity For Education Reform, Jennifer O'Day, Margaret E. Goertz, Robert E. Floden
Building Capacity For Education Reform, Jennifer O'Day, Margaret E. Goertz, Robert E. Floden
CPRE Policy Briefs
Discussions of capacity should be broadened to include factors such as the relationships between individual, or teacher, capacity and the abilities of schools, and districts to accomplish standards-based, or systemic, reform. This brief provides a framework for thinking about capacity and suggests ways that systemic reform strategies could help increase capacity. It also describes how two such strategies - professional development and state assessment - were used to enhance educational capacity in states examined by CPRE.
Tracking Student Achievement In Science And Math: The Promise Of State Assessment Programs, University Of Pennsylvania
Tracking Student Achievement In Science And Math: The Promise Of State Assessment Programs, University Of Pennsylvania
CPRE Policy Briefs
This issue of CPRE Policy Briefs examines the capacity of state assessment systems to track the effects of the SSIs on student performance in mathematics and science. It also identifies some of the major issues state policymakers are facing as they attempt to re-align their state assessment systems of meet the changing goals for public education.