School Effectiveness

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Title	Date	Abstract
"Double duty dollars": Getting education and employment gains through investments in adult education in a time of deficit reduction	1995	The author argues that programs "incorporating intergenerational transfer of cognitive skills" and "functional context educa...
Adult education: measuring program results has been challenging	1995	This report provides information on the State Grant Program of the federal Adult Education Act, its coordination with federal...
America 2000: an education strategy	1991	America 2000 is an action plan to move America toward the six national education goals. It contains a four part strategy -- ...
College and career readiness standards for adult education	Jul 5 1905 12:00AM	This report is the product of an expert panel convened to research how the College and Career Readiness (CCR) standards devel...
Common core state standards and adult education teacher effectiveness	February 2013	This brief summarizes the Common Core State Standards initiative, directed at student success in college and the workplace, a...
Developing collaborative partnerships	1997	The brief looks at successful collaborations involving work force development, family literacy, and welfare reform to identif...
Evaluation systems in the adult education program: the role of quality indicators	1996	In 1992, the Division of Adult Education and Literacy (DAEL) of the U. S. Department of Education published Model Indicators ...
Getting clear about where we are going: results-oriented accountability as a tool for system reform	1996	This paper explores the movement toward results oriented accountability for adult basic education services funded by state an...
Goal 6: adult literacy and lifelong learning	1994	This is an excerpt from Building a Nation of Learners, 1994. This report details progress in 1994 toward the eight national ...
Indicators of program quality for adult education programs	1992	The paper details a list of indicators which are the most essential elements of program quality that should be used to assess...
Making the case, evidence of program effectiveness in schools and classrooms: criteria and guidelines for the U.S. Department of Education's program effectiveness panel	1988	The handbook details the policies of the U.S. Department of Education's Program Effectiveness Panel (PEP). Included are back...
Model indicators of program quality for adult education programs	1992	The booklet presents the indicators of program quality in adult education programs called for by the National Literacy Act of...
Models of excellence in adult learning: recipients of the 1994 Secretary's Award for Outstanding Adult Education and Literacy Programs	1994	The paper describes the ten winners of the 1994 Secretary of Education's awards for Outstanding Adult Education and Literacy ...
Nation at risk: the imperative for educational reform	1983	This report by the National Commission on Excellence in Education to the U.S. Secretary of Education defines the problems aff...
National Institute for Literacy's performance management initiative: progress and opportunities; discussion paper	1996	This paper describes the National Institute for Literacy's key capacity-building initiative for development and piloting of p...
National reform legislation of 1994 and 1995	1995	This pamphlet provides a summary of the following legislation: Goals 2000; Improving America's School's Act (IASA); School-t...
Promising practices for the 21st century: Secretary's Award for Outstanding Adult Education and Literacy Programs, 1996 winners	1996	The paper describes the twelve winners of the 1996 Secretary of Education's awards for Outstanding Adult Education and Litera...
Quality indicators for adult education programs: lessons learned from other programs	1992	The report summarizes the experience of the JTPA program, the Perkins Act Programs, and the FSETP and JOBS programs with the ...
Quality indicators for alternative education programs in California public schools	1990	The quality indicators are to be used as a school team self-assessment measure and provide guidelines for school based improv...
Quality indicators, measures and performance standards	1992	The paper details the four-step process of developing indicators, measures and standards of program quality. Definitions and...
Reaching the goals: goal 5, adult literacy and lifelong learning	1993	In 1989, President Bush and the 50 governors held an historic summit that culminated in the adoption of six National Educatio...
Secretary's awards for outstanding adult education and literacy programs, 1990	1990	The paper describes the ten winners of the 1990 Secretary of Education's awards for Outstanding Adult Education and Literacy ...
Secretary's Awards for outstanding adult education and literacy programs: descriptions of 1990 winners	1990	The paper describes the ten winners of the 1990 Secretary of Education's awards for Outstanding Adult Education and Literacy ...
Selected illustrations on review criteria for the Secretary's Awards for outstanding adult education and literacy programs	1989	The paper includes the ten review criteria and some illustrations for the Secretary of Education's awards for outstanding adu...
Standards-in-action: innovations for standards-based education	November 2009	The guide addresses four priority areas of standards-based reform in adult education. The areas are: building instructors' un...
U.S. Department of Education Strategic Plan 2002-2007	2002	This strategic plan of the U.S. Department of Education outlines the education goals that are intended in the years 2002-2007...