Title: Getting to 2014: The Choices and Challenges Ahead.
Abstract: Over the next few years, educators and policymakers have committed to implementing an array of challenging, but potentially transformative, reforms—reforms that could go beyond rearranging furniture to fundamentally restructuring and improving teaching and learning. States have worked together to adopt common academic standards in English language arts and math—standards that are based on expectations for students to be college and career ready. Two state consortia are developing high-quality, high-tech assessments to measure student performance and growth on the standards. Given the emphasis on postsecondary readiness, states are seeking flexibility from the U.S. Department of Education to create more refined accountability systems. States also are changing how they evaluate and support teacher and principal performance. And all of this is unfolding in a time of uncertainty: new technologies promise to transform how and where learning takes place, and resources and capacity to support implementation are limited and inconsistent. Stakes are particularly high for the 2014-15 school year, when new academic standards and assessments are set to be fully launched.
Publication Year: 2012
Publication Date: 2012-03-01
Language: en
Type: article
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