Reports by Other Organizations
Fordham’s Needles in a Haystack report highlights high-performing Ohio schools serving disadvantaged students »
Click the following link to watch, Needles in a Haystack: Lessons from Ohio’s high-performing, high-need urban schools, which includes interviews with principals and teachers: http://www.vimeo.com/11932558
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s poll of 40,000 teachers »
Click here to read the poll: Primary Sources: America\’s Teachers on America\’s Schools
US Department of Education: A Blueprint for Reform »
Click here to read about the reauthorization of NCLB, now know as the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA): A Blueprint for Reform: The Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Raising Rigor, Getting Results: Lessons Learned from AP Expansion, by NGA Center for Best Practices »
The National Governors’ Association Center for Best Practices recently released the report, Raising Rigor, Getting Results: Lessons Learned from AP Expansion.
To read the full report, follow this link: http://www.nga.org/Files/pdf/0908APREPORT.PDF
Education Commission of the States’ International Benchmarking Toolkit »
Education Commission of the States (ECS) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan group that informs decision-making by synthesizing state-level data from across the nation. To review ECS’s newly released International Benchmarking Toolkit, click here: http://www.ecs.org/IB/IBtoolkit3-26-09.pdf
