Quality Counts

Quality Counts is Education Week's annual report on state-level efforts to improve public education. Published in January.



Quality Counts

2012: The Global Challenge

This year's Quality Counts report looks at America's international standing in education, and lessons to be drawn from high-performing countries. The report leverages the EPE Research Center’s detailed, state-level data collection and analysis to inform this year’s theme: international education.

Web-only content includes:

State Highlights Reports
State Report Cards Map
Calculate Your Own Grade: Recalculate grades for states based on weighting schemes of your choice.



Prior Years

2011: Uncertain Forecast

2010: Fresh Course, Swift Current

2009: Portrait of a Population

2008: Tapping Into Teaching

2007: From Cradle to Career

2006: Quality Counts at 10: A Decade of Standards Based Education

2005: No Small Change, Targeting Money Toward Student Performance

2004: Count Me In: Special Education in an Era of Standards
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2003: "If I Can't Learn From You"

2002: Building Blocks for Success

2001: A Better Balance

2000: Who Should Teach?

1999: Rewarding Results, Punishing Failure

1998: The Urban Challenge: Public Education in the 50 States

Quality Counts '97


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Margaret J. Gaston and Jason Kamras, both contributors to this year's report, took questions from our readers.
January 16, 2008 - Education Week (Web)
The report's editors discussed this year's findings.
January 11, 2008 - Education Week (Web)

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