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This fact sheet discusses the importance of aligning workforce data and how that data can inform educational and economic development policy. Aligning education, employment, and workforce data also allows stakeholders to answer a variety of questions such as: What educational experience do children need to successfully pursue their desired careers and do the courses a student takes correlate to his or her later employment and earnings?
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The American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) and the College and Career Readiness and Success (CCRS) Center recently hosted a webinar on implications for state policy in competency-based education systems. The discussion brought together national and state leaders to share what progress has been made in states, what has been learned in doing such work at the state level, and guidance on where other states might begin.
In several states across the country, universities have agreed to freeze tuition rates in exchange for increased government funding. However, lawmakers warn that the extra funding will most likely not make up for cuts made during the recession. Julie Bell, director of the National Conference of State Legislatures, says that it is doubtful “that states will ever return to the high levels of contributions to higher education of a decade ago,"
On June 18, Secretary Arne Duncan informed state chiefs that the administration is open to flexibility requests around the principal and teacher evaluation implementation deadline for those states that already have approved Elementary and Secondary Education Act flexibility waivers. For these states, consequences around new assessments can be delayed for up to one year, until 2016-17.
Two Common Core State Standards experts from the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers address myths around the state standards in this article from Education Week. Among the topics covered are the creation of the standards, their alignment with postsecondary needs, and their miscategorization as a curriculum.
A recent report released by Change the Equation and the National School Boards Association found that out of the District of Columbia and the forty-five states that have adopted the Common Core State Standards in mathematics, only eleven had graduation requirements that were fully aligned to the new standards.
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Over the past decade many states have developed content standards for adult literacy instruction. The within the U.S.
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The National Longitudinal Studies and other data demonstrate how students with disabilities are lagging behind their peers. Students with disabilities graduate from high school at lower rates, attend and graduate from postsecondary institutions less frequently, and achieve lower rates of competitive employment.
The Colorado Department of Education is increasing efforts to expand the state’s science programs through the implementation of school level initiatives and actively pursuing increased funding from the government.
A group of forty states, including New York, Montana, and New Hampshire, are exploring alternatives to the General Education Development test (GED). The new changes, expected to take effect in 2014, will raise the cost of the test to $120.
