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This 19th annual KIDS COUNT Data Book provides national and state-by-state information and statistical trends on the conditions of America’s children and families. This year, the KIDS COUNT Data Book essay, “A Road Map for Juvenile Justice Reform,” looks at the nearly 100,000 youth confined to juvenile facilities on any given night in the United States, and what can be done to reduce unnecessary and inappropriate detention and incarceration and increase opportunities for positive youth... - 1/1/09 - Annie E. Casey Foundation,
The 20th annual KIDS COUNT Data Book profiles the well-being of America’s children on a state-by-state basis and ranks states on 10 key measures of child well-being. The Data Book essay calls for a “data revolution” that uses timely and reliable information to track the progress and improve the lives of vulnerable children. - 1/1/08 - Partnership for 21st Century Skills,
This guide summarizes the challenges and opportunities that, if left unaddressed, will curtail our competitiveness and diminish our standing in the world. - 1/1/07 - Greer, M., Taylor, A., Mackey Andrews, S.D., The National Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center
This paper summarizes the fiscal challenges that this legislation presents and proposes a framework for analyzing, adjusting, and maintaining a flexible and self-regulating finance system to support Part C early intervention services for infants and toddlers and their families. The framework design features four phases of work to help agencies understand the issues and make informed decisions for on-going development and support of a Part C finance system. - 1/1/06 - Fagan, T.
This report describes problems with the way the funds under the No Child Left Behind Act are made available to schools identified for improvement. - 1/1/09 - Elizabeth Kozleksi, Amanda Sullivan, Kara Sujansky
This report provides a snapshot of Connecticut’s efforts to provide for the education of students identified as having disabilities and students identified as CLD.2 We use NCCRESt’s conceptual framework for culturally responsive educational systems, which focuses on the connections between people, policies, and practices, to provide a schema for analyzing the relationships between federal, state, LEA, and school policies. - 1/1/07 - Wyner, J., Bridgeland, J., Diulio, J.
This report discusses new and original research on this extraordinary population of students. Our findings come from three federal databases that during the past 20 years have tracked students in elementary and high school, college, and graduate school. The following principal findings about high-achieving lower-income students are important for policymakers, educators, business leaders, the media, and civic leaders to understand and explore as schools, communities, states, and the nation... - 1/1/09 - Debra Albus, Martha Thurlow, Chris Bremer
The 2006-2007 school year was the eighth annual reporting period since disaggregating the performance of students with disabilities on state and district-wide assessments was required by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). It is the fifth reporting period since the enactment of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), and the eleventh in a series of National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO) reports documenting state public reporting practices. Historically, the number of... - 1/1/08 - The Federal Intreragency Forum on Child and Family Statistics,
Statistical data on children and families collected through the coordination and integration of 22 federal agencies. Indicators are organized into seven sections: Family and social environment, economic circumstances, health care, physical environment and safety, behavior, education, and health. - 1/1/07 - Kirsch, I., Braun, H., Yamamoto, K., Sum, A.
This report “looks at the convergence of three powerful sociological and economical forces that are changing our nation's future: (a) substantial disparities in skill levels (reading and math); (b) seismic economic changes (widening wage gaps); and (c) sweeping demographic changes (less education, lower skills). (The authors show that) there is little chance that economic opportunities will improve among key segments of our population if we follow our current path. To date, educational... - 1/1/09 - Gary Nave, Vicki Nishioka, Arthur Burke
This report informs Oregon education policy-makers about the developmental functioning levels of children from birth through age 2 in early intervention services and children ages 3-5 in early childhood special education services at the time of entry into services, using data from the Oregon Early Childhood Assessment System. The assessment system contains data on the assessed developmental functioning levels of children based on the 16 Oregon early childhood foundation areas and the three... - 1/1/07 - Susan Smartt, Daniel Reschly
This brief discusses scientifically based reading instruction in relation to federal policy mandates. It focuses on strategies and standards for ensuring that teachers are qualified to teach reading and provides recommendations for improving the teaching of reading. - 1/1/08 - Douglas-Hall, A., Chau, M.
Estimates in this data display are “based on the U.S. Current Population Survey, Annual Social and Economic Supplement, March 2008, representing information for calendar year 2007.” Details include (a) numbers and percentages in low-income families; (b) changes over time; (c) federal poverty level figures; (d) family characteristics; (e) variation’s by children’s age; (f) variations by race/ethnicity; (g) variations by parents’ country of birth; and (g) variations by region of... - 1/1/09 - Karina Fortuny, Randy Capps, Margaret Simms, Ajay Chaudry
Accounting for 24% of children under age 5, the share of the school-age population who are children of immigrants will increase in the coming years. A brief from the Urban Institute describes the national and state characteristics of this subset of the U.S. population. - 1/1/08 - Harris, L., Ganzlglass, E.
This paper advocates expansion and better integration of efforts to connect high school dropouts between the ages of 16 and 24 to pathways to postsecondary credentials that have value in the labor market. The paper highlights examples of innovations in policy, program delivery, pedagogy in adult education, youth development and dropout recovery, and postsecondary education that should be built upon in developing more robust and successful dropout recovery and postsecondary education policies... - Assessment and Accountability Comprehensive Center,
The Data Use for Continuous Quality Improvement web site is a part of the Assessment and Accountability Comprehensive Center and provides resources for states to help them reach No Child Left Behind goals. The website was created and is regularly updated by the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) in partnership with WestEd, and supported by the United States Department of Education. (55 Results) Page: 1 2 3 4 |
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