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Legal Frameworks for Tertiary Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Quest for Institutional Responsi

The performance of tertiary institutions is heavily influenced by their governance arrangements, management structures, accountability mechanisms, and the regulatory environments in which they oper...
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  • worldbank published this 12 / 10 / 2009
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The Ignacio Market Driven Compensation Plan and Why It Fell Short

Independence Institute Education Policy Center Issue Paper #IP-3-2005 Colorado local school boards, unlike those in many states, determine their districts' salary schedules. Most school districts ...
  • Independence Institute Publications published this 12 / 08 / 2009
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The Wrong Kind of Self-Employment: Keeping District Employees off Colorado School Boards

Independence Institute Education Policy Center Issue Paper #IP-3-2004 By Benjamin DeGrow Colorado's state legislators and local education policymakers should clarify the status of public school bo...
  • Independence Institute Publications published this 12 / 08 / 2009
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Addressing Safety Reporting Deficiencies on Colorado's School Accountability Report

Independence Institute Education Policy Center Issue Paper #IP-2-2006 By Pamela Benigno, Kirstin Hasler The Safety and Discipline table within Colorado's School Accountability Reports (SAR) does n...
  • Independence Institute Publications published this 12 / 08 / 2009
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A New Education Tax Plan for Colorado

Independence Institute Education Policy Center Issue Paper #IP-1-2001 By Pam Benigno Arizona and Minnesota have both implemented successful education tax plans. Arizona nad Minnesota differ in th...
  • Independence Institute Publications published this 12 / 08 / 2009
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Excerpt: Saving America's High Schools

"High schools are not working for a substantial number of the 14 million adolescents they are charged with educating. At best, one in four public high school students does not graduate in four year...
  • uipress published this 11 / 23 / 2009
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Excerpt: Creating a New Teaching Profession

“Improving teacher quality is a necessary—indeed, the key—ingredient for improving our nation’s schools,” the editors of Creating a New Teaching Profession conclude. But putting this advice into pr...
  • uipress published this 11 / 23 / 2009
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Teaching for a New World: Preparing High School Educators to Deliver College- and Career-Ready Instr

It is well established that teacher quality is one of the most significant school influences on student achievement. Unfortunately, it is less clear how teacher preparation programs can prepare and...
  • AllianceforExcellentEducation published this 11 / 06 / 2009
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Meaningful Measurement

As the nation embraces the goal of graduating all students college and career ready, there is a growing movement to realign standards, assessments, and accountability systems to that goal. Meaningf...
  • AllianceforExcellentEducation published this 10 / 28 / 2009
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Every Child a Graduate

This report outlines the Alliance for Excellent Education’s Framework for Action to Improve Secondary Schools, which reflects the consensus among educators, researchers, policymakers, and other aut...
  • AllianceforExcellentEducation published this 10 / 28 / 2009
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New Education Policy_2009

NATIONAL EDUCATION POLICY 2009 Ministry of Education Government of Pakistan Revised August 01, 2009. Acknowledgements The Ministry of Education acknowledges the work and inputs of all the provi...
  • aja_ray@hotmail.com published this 10 / 19 / 2009
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Dropouts, Diplomas, and Dollars: U.S. High Schools and the Nation’s Economy

The United States can no longer absorb the costs and losses associated with an education system that produces more than 1.2 million dropouts every year. This report examines the impact of this ...
  • AllianceforExcellentEducation published this 10 / 16 / 2009
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Colorado Teachers and Education Policy Trends 2009

Presentation shared with Colorado teachers at the Independence Institute's July 22, 2009, event -- includes resources & links on topics such as: merit pay, teacher certification, school finance, in...
  • Education@i2i published this 07 / 23 / 2009
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The Alternative School Brochure

What is The Alternative School? The Alternative School (known as TAS) was set up to offer an alternative education programme for those young people who are not making progress within a school en...
  • startup essentials published this 06 / 28 / 2009
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A Chronology of School Choice in the U.S.

The report highlights the evolution of school choice in American history, from the colonial era to the present. Krista Kafer examines the trends, policies, laws, and court cases that have marked th...
  • Education@i2i published this 06 / 25 / 2009
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Open Education Policy

This is an open letter to Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and then-unnamed Chief Technology Officer (CTO) proposing a new approach to intellectual property, which I term "open education policy."...
  • Claire Fontaine published this 04 / 01 / 2009
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Standards, accountability and education reform...from a president of a state board of education

Published By the Southern Regional Education Board. Kirk T. Schroder served as president of the Virginia Board of Education from 1998-2002. His views on education reform.
  • omkirk published this 06 / 29 / 2008
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