Published: January 5, 2006
State of the States: Overview
This year's report takes stock of where states have made progress and where improvements are needed.
Quality Counts 2006 , like the nine previous editions of the report, tracks key education information and grades states on their policies related to student achievement, standards and accountability, efforts to improve teacher quality, school climate, and resources.
After collecting a decade of information on standards-based education policies, the report this year also takes stock of where states have made progress and where improvements are needed.
Over the past few years, states have put in place a number of policies to help them meet the requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind Act. The influence of the 4-year-old law has been dramatic in certain areas and has accelerated state efforts related to assessments, accountability, and teacher quality. But a longer-term view of the data suggests that states were beginning to put in place the pieces of standards-based education well before the federal law became a measuring stick for...
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