Standards-Based Education Reform

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The Overlooked Support Teachers Are Missing: A Coherent Curriculum
America is still too far off from the classrooms envisioned by standards advocates, and it will take sustained effort from educational leaders to reach these ambitious goals. States and districts could prioritize efforts to support teachers to understand and implement standards both during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Mar 3, 2021
Education Week
Morgan Polikoff, Elaine Lin Wang, et al.

Standards-Based Education Reform

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Louisiana's Education System Is Evolving: Here's What Parents Need to Know
Louisiana has taken big steps to improve its education policies and the education of the state's children, from birth to grade 12. Parents can help their children benefit from the reforms by being informed about the changes and knowing how to take advantage of new resources.
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Sep 12, 2018
The Advocate
Julia H. Kaufman @juliahkaufman, Jill S. Cannon, et al.
Education Curriculum

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Giving State Educators What They Need to Stand Apart—and Together
States have an opportunity to provide better instructional materials to teachers hungry for more resources aligned with state standards. By focusing on what they agree students should learn, states could work together to build curricula and shore up other key supports.
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Apr 4, 2017
U.S. News & World Report
Julia H. Kaufman @juliahkaufman, V. Darleen Opfer @VDarleenOpfer
Principals

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How States and Districts Can Leverage the Every Student Succeeds Act to Improve School Leadership
The Every Student Succeeds Act provides states and districts with new chances to invest in school leadership. A review of interventions can serve as a starting point to enact relevant solutions and build the evidence base for what works.
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Dec 12, 2016
The RAND Blog
Rebecca Herman, Susan M. Gates
Teacher Effectiveness

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Inspiring Better Teacher Planning and Instruction or Just Adding Noise?
Teachers can and should have the freedom to select and develop at least some of their own instructional resources. But whether sites like Amazon Inspire will actually save teachers time and help them find high-quality resources is up for debate.
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Jul 20, 2016
The RAND Blog
Julia H. Kaufman @juliahkaufman
Standards-Based Education Reform

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The Opt-Out Reckoning
Criticism of standardized testing is nearly as old as the testing itself. Will the opt-out movement promote meaningful and enduring changes in the educational system, and will these changes benefit the most at-risk and disadvantaged students?
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May 10, 2016
U.S. News & World Report
Jonathan Schweig
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Parents of Schoolchildren: Start Your Information Engines
Published commentary by RAND staff.
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Oct 10, 2004
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Brian Gill, Laura S. Hamilton

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BBC World Service's efforts [to begin broadcasting a Gaza emergency service]…should motivate the U.S. Agency for Global Media…to initiate its own radio transmissions to Gaza. Doing so would not only provide Gaza's 2 million residents with valuable news and information but potentially help to begin rebuilding regional trust in the United States' voice in finding a durable solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Benjamin J. Sacks

Policy Researcher

Source: Inside Sources

Deterring North Korean coercion involves some combination of threatening to impose costs on the North and to deny North Korea the benefits it seeks with employment of nuclear weapons.

Bruce W. Bennett

Adjunct International/Defense Researcher

Source: Korea On Point

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A Toolkit for Community-Police Dialogue

BBC's Gaza Service Demonstrates Power of Radio During Conflict

From the Ashes of Hamas-Israel War, Can Economics Drive Peace?

The Safety and Security of the U.S. Maritime Environment

The Policy Currents Podcast

Developing Strategies for Summer Learning

Improving Psychological Wellbeing and Work Outcomes in the UK

Planning for the Rising Costs of Dementia

Helping Coastal Communities Plan for Climate Change

Standards-Based Education Reform

The Overlooked Support Teachers Are Missing: A Coherent Curriculum

Louisiana's Education System Is Evolving: Here's What Parents Need to Know

Giving State Educators What They Need to Stand Apart—and Together

How States and Districts Can Leverage the Every Student Succeeds Act to Improve School Leadership

Inspiring Better Teacher Planning and Instruction or Just Adding Noise?

The Opt-Out Reckoning

Parents of Schoolchildren: Start Your Information Engines

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