This page provides links to reports and resources highlighted in this issue of Education Week. The headlines show the Education Week stories in which the references appear. The links below them will take you to resource materials on other Web sites.
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NRC Weighs in on States’ Science Assessments
- Further information on the report, “Systems for State Science Assessment,” is available from The National Academies Press.
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Rural Educators Share Global Woes
- Learn more about the International Rural Conference.
Reform Model Found to Spur Gains in Kansas
- Read “The Challenge of Scaling Up Educational Reform: Findings and Lessons from First Things First” posted by the MDRC research group.
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Studies Decry Faulty Graduation Data, Rising Dropout Rates
- The reports, “Getting Honest About Grad Rates: How States Play the Numbers and Students Lose,” from the Education Trust and “Getting Serious About High School Graduation,” from the Southern Regional Education Board have been posted.
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Report Roundup
“Changing NCLB District Accountability Standards: Implications for Racial Equity” is posted by the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University.
“NCLB: Middle Schools Are Increasingly Targeted for Improvement” is posted by the Center on Education Policy.
For more information about “Going to Scale With High-Quality Early Education,” go to RAND Corp.
“Rankings and Estimates: Rankings of the States 2004 and Estimates of School Statistics 2005" is posted by the National Education Association.
Read the report, “The On-Track Indicator as a Predictor of High School Graduation,” from the Consortium on Chicago School Research.
