Technology Counts 2013: Building the Digital District takes a major step in outlining the barriers educators and policymakers are facing, and how they are moving beyond them, in building schools that maximize the use of digital tools to improve student achievement. It also covers the pressures school districts are under to modernize, the high priority being placed on 1-to-1 computing and much more.
Technology Counts 2012: Virtual Shift tackles the shift in the virtual education landscape, where the rise in popularity is intersecting with a call for greater accountability. The report examines the growth of district-based programs designed with more local control in mind, and it tracks state legislative efforts to expand online education while also evaluating its effectiveness. It also covers the critical accountability questions facing virtual education providers, particularly for-profit companies, and issues related to the financial sustainability of state-sponsored e-schools.
Technology Counts 2011 - the 14th edition of Education Week's annual report on educational technology examines how schools are testing individualized learning.
Technology Counts 2010: the 13th edition of Education Week's annual report on educational technology examines how mobile devices are sparking a shift in the ed-tech landscape.
Quality Counts 2013: Code of Conduct - Safety, Discipline, and School Climate, the 17th edition of Education Week's annual examination of issues and challenges facing America's public schools, takes aim at an issue with emotional as well as policy implications: the impact of a school's social and disciplinary environment on teaching and learning.
This year's report also features a fresh data and analysis from the EPE Research Center on key education policy indicators, including summative letter grades and scores for the states and for the nation as a whole across all six categories.
Quality Counts 2012Education Week's 16th annual report, Quality Counts 2012: The Global Challenge-Education in a Competitive World, takes a critical look at America's place among the world's public schooling systems and puts to the test popular assumptions about the country's competitive status in education. Quality Counts 2012 examines innovations in high-performing nations that have taken root in the United States, lessons to be drawn from the experiences of other countries, and the promise and risks such strategies hold for U.S. policymakers. As always, the report features the EPE Research Center's State of the States report card, a comprehensive evaluation of the nation and states across six areas of policymaking and performance.
Quality Counts 2011: Uncertain Forecast: Education Adjusts to a New Economic Reality offers insight into the impact of the economy on education. The 15th edition of this benchmark annual report explores lingering concerns about the recovery's pace and stability even as states and school districts seek to rebuild their budgets. This year's report also features a special analysis by the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center, which tracks several key economic indicators over time, unpacks education funding tied to the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and identifies education-related jobs saved as a result of the economic stimulus package.
Quality Counts 2010 provides you with the nationwide report card on the continual push for K-12 school improvement you have come to rely on. In addition, the special focus of this year's report is the latest interation of the national debate over common academic standards.
Despite the fact that U.S. graduation rates are on the rise, roughly 1 million students a year leave high school without a diploma. Diplomas Count 2013: Second Chances focuses on these students, a group for whom the prospect of landing a good-paying job or earning a post-secondary credential is likely to be dim, and investigates "recovery" interventions that target them.
This portrait is presented in tandem with the latest original graduate-rate analysis from the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center. The research center calculates graduation rates for the nation, the states, and every public school district in the country. Find out where the major gains and losses are, across the country and within special populations.
By 2020, one in four children enrolled in America's K-12 public schoolswill be Latino.Diplomas Count 2012: MovingForward, Falling Behind takes a closer lookat the state of schooling for this population of students, thechallenges they face, and the lessons learned from some of theschools,districts, organizations, and communities that work closelywith Latino students.
This portrait is presented in tandem with the latest originalgraduation-rate analysis from the Editorial Projects in EducationResearch Center. The research center calculates graduation rates forthe nation, the states, and every public school district in thecountry. Find out where the major gains and losses are, across thecountry and within special populations.
Diplomas Count 2011: Beyond High School, Before Baccalaureate: Meaningful Alternatives to a Four-Year Degree explores how understanding the link between learning and a career becomes more critical than ever for high school students preparing to graduate and enter the next phase of their lives. This year's Diplomas Count reconsiders the "college for all" movement and examines postsecondary options for students other than a bachelor's degree. Plus, this annual benchmarking research report provides nationwide data on graduation rates, which concludes that rates are finally moving up significantly.
The 5th annual edition of Diplomas Count becomes the story of using numbers, data, and statistics to plot a real, practical course of action that will help put students now at risk of dropping out on track to earn diplomas and, if all goes well, to continue their educations in college. The articles featured in this edition include "Data in Action", "Guiding Students On Nontraditional Paths", "District Targets Dropout Figures", "Coaching for Success", and "From Analysis to Action". The Research Center section contains a number of charts and special analyses, including "Progress Postponed," "Graduation-Rates Charts", and "Pinpointing District Performance."
What it means to be ready to attend college is open to argument, with no firm consensus on how to measure college readiness or ensure that all students clear such a bar.
As the nation struggles to close its graduation gap, Diplomas Count 2008 examines states' efforts to forge stronger connections between precollegiate and postsecondary education.
The findings from Diplomas Count 2007 underscore that to earn a decent wage in the United States, young people need to anticipate completing at least some college.
This report provides detailed data on graduation rates across the 50 states and the District of Columbia, and in the nation's 50 largest school districts. This report also tracks state policies related to high school graduation requirements.
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