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Testing, Teaching, and Learning
State education departments and school districts face an important challenge in implementing a new law that requires disadvantaged students to be held to the same standards as …
Uncommon Measures
The issues surrounding the comparability of various tests used to assess performance in schools received broad public attention during congressional debate over the Voluntary …
Grading the Nation's Report Card
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), known as the nation's report card, has chronicled students' academic achievement in America for over a quarter of a century. …
Methodological Advances in Cross-National Surveys of Educational Achievement
In November 2000, the Board on International Comparative Studies in Education (BICSE) held a symposium to draw on the wealth of experience gathered over a fourdecade period, to …
Embedding Questions
Policy makers are caught between two powerful forces in relation to testing in America's schools. One is increased interest on the part of educators, reinforced by federal …
Allocating Federal Funds for State Programs for English Language Learners
As the United States continues to be a nation of immigrants and their children, the nation's school systems face increased enrollments of students whose primary language is not …
Supporting Students' College Success
The importance of higher education has never been clearer. Educational attainmentthe number of years a person spends in schoolstrongly predicts adult earnings, as well as health …
NAEP Reporting Practices
At the request of the Department of Education, the National Research Council formed the Committee on NAEP Reporting Practices to address questions about the desirability, …
Education for Life and Work
Americans have long recognized that investments in public education contribute to the common good, enhancing national prosperity and supporting stable families, neighborhoods, and …
Keeping Score for All
U.S. public schools are responsible for educating large numbers of English languagelearners and students with disabilities. This book considers policies for including studentswith …
Performance Assessments for Adult Education
In the United States, the nomenclature of adult education includes adult literacy, adult secondary education, and English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) services provided …
Monitoring Progress Toward Successful K-12 STEM Education
Following a 2011 report by the National Research Council (NRC) on successful K-12 education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), Congress asked the National …