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Details of California's teacher - licensing system as presented in the special Jan. 13, 2000, Quality Counts issue of Education Week require clarification.

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«Accountability for student performance is one of the two or three - if not the most - prominent issues in policy at the state and local levels right now,» says Richard F. Elmore, a professor at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education (Quality Counts, 1999)

This 10th anniversary issue — Quality Counts at 10: A Decade of Standards - Based Reform — also takes a special look back at standards - based reform in American education over the past ten years.

In conjunction with the release of Quality Counts 2009, the EPE Research Center and Education Week will be hosting a series of online chats and a webinar in which QC»09 Project Director Amy Hightower, EPE Research Center Director Christopher B. Swanson, the report's senior writers, and leading experts in the ELL field will engage in lively, in - depth dialogues about this year's report and critical issues facing ELL eEducation Week will be hosting a series of online chats and a webinar in which QC»09 Project Director Amy Hightower, EPE Research Center Director Christopher B. Swanson, the report's senior writers, and leading experts in the ELL field will engage in lively, in - depth dialogues about this year's report and critical issues facing ELL educationeducation.

Quality Counts 2012, the 16th edition of Education Week's annual examination of issues and challenges facing America's public schools, takes aim at topics high on the policy agenda, from the White House and Congress down to the level of local school boards and chambers of commerce: the nation's international standing in education, and lessons to be drawn from high - performing cEducation Week's annual examination of issues and challenges facing America's public schools, takes aim at topics high on the policy agenda, from the White House and Congress down to the level of local school boards and chambers of commerce: the nation's international standing in education, and lessons to be drawn from high - performing ceducation, and lessons to be drawn from high - performing countries.

As a new presidential administration nears the close of its first year in office and educators across the country grapple with the challenges and opportunities in implementing the Every Student Succeeds Act, the nation's educational performance earns a grade of C from Quality Counts 2018, the 22nd annual report card issued by the Education Week Research Center.

As a new political and policy era dawns in Washington, the status of the nation's schools remains stable, though still earning a grade of C from Quality Counts 2017, the 21st annual report card issued by the Education Week Research Center.

[1] The aggregated number of degrees issued in education fields in Figures 1 and 2 may not represent the true number of newly credentialed teachers because alternatively - certified teachers are not included, individuals who graduate but do not complete the requirements to receive a teaching credential are included, and teachers who receive a Bachelor's and higher degree in education may be double - counted.

All of the «options» Florida is offering have the same issues as public education: they are only as good as the quality of programs & people - administrators, teachers, evaluators, etc. implementing them - and more importantly, in the voucher plan there are two huge issues: 1) poor and uneducated parents rarely are aware of the range of quality and number of schools available (which I am sure the politicians are counting on) 2) Even if every parent were saavy in the needs of their child and the kind of school they should look for, there aren't enough of those schools available...

Writing in the Sept. 15 issue of Education Week, school expert Alfie Kohn describes today's schools as institutions in which students «count off the hours remaining until dismissal, the days until the weekend, the weeks until vacation.»

Despite Tom Foley's decision to join Malloy in backing the corporate education reform industry's agenda, any endorsement of Malloy — prior to him publicly reversing course on the issues listed above — would be an insult to every Connecticut teacher and the tens of thousands of parents and public school advocates who are counting on the Connecticut Education Association to stand up for public education in Coneducation reform industry's agenda, any endorsement of Malloy — prior to him publicly reversing course on the issues listed above — would be an insult to every Connecticut teacher and the tens of thousands of parents and public school advocates who are counting on the Connecticut Education Association to stand up for public education in ConEducation Association to stand up for public education in Coneducation in Connecticut.

The 23rd edition of the Kids Count in Nebraska Report continues to offer a visually - oriented data in each of Voices for Children's 5 issues areas: health, education, child welfare, juvenile justice and economic stability.

It discusses issues like whether registrants taking mandatory continuing education should have to pass the courses; whether registrants should be given the option of taking CE courses in class; and whether third - party credits should count towards CE requirements.