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Leaving No Child Behind? : Options for Kids in Failing Schools New Book! - Here top experts evaluate the potential and the problems of NCLB in its initial stages of implementation. This first look provides valuable insights, offering lessons crucial to understanding this dramatic change in American education.

SchoolMatters - SchoolMatters gives policymakers, educators, and parents the tools they need to make better-informed decisions that improve student performance. SchoolMatters will educate, empower, and engage education stakeholders. For the first time, parents and the general public have instant access to a wide range of data on local schools and schools districts, enabling them to make informed decisions, ranging from policies they advocate to the schools their children attend.

 




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ø Florida's Comprehensive Assessment Test - The primary purpose of the FCAT is to assess student achievement of the high-order cognitive skills represented in the Sunshine State Standards (SSS) in Reading, Writing, Mathematics, and Science. The SSS portion of FCAT is a criterion-referenced test. A secondary purpose is to compare the performance of Florida students to the Reading and Mathematics performance of students across the nation using a norm-referenced test (NRT).
ø Georgia Public Education Report Card - Assessment results and other data are summarized at the school, school system, and state level and in most instances are disaggregated (when available) by different student groupings. These groupings are based on race/ethnicity, gender, disability, and English proficiency, economic, and migrant status as required by the A Plus Education Reform Act of 2000 and the No Child Left Behind Act.
ø GreatSchools.net - GreatSchools.net is the nation's leading online guide to K-12 schools. Published by GreatSchools, Inc., a California nonprofit organization, GreatSchools.net provides parents with the information they need to choose schools, support their children's education and improve schools in their communities.
ø Interactive Illinois Report Card - The IIRC website presents test results for all public schools and districts in Illinois for the years 1999-2004 in easy-to-understand graphs and tables.
ø Louisiana Department of Education - Providing in-depth data and reports from LEAP 21 Results to district and school accountability results.
ø N.C. School Report Cards -
This report card includes important information about student performance, class size, school safety, and teacher quality in your child's school. It is our goal to provide you with a Report Card that keeps you well informed, empowered and involved in your child's school.
ø National Center for Education Statistics, The Nation's Report Card - State Profiles present key data about each state's student and school population and its NAEP testing history and results. The profiles provide easy access to all NAEP data for participating states and links to the most recent state report cards for all available subjects.
ø New Jersey's Report Cards - The annual New Jersey School Report Card is required under a 1995 state law. It presents thirty-five fields of information for each school in the following categories: school environment, students, student performance indicators, staff, and district finances.
ø Public School Review - Lets you find free, detailed profiles of public schools and their surrounding communities. We provide a variety of different search methods to find nearby schools, view school agency rankings, or find the most expensive towns/counties!
ø RAND, California Education Statistics - The Academic Performance Index (API) measures the academic performance and progress of individual schools and establishes growth targets for future academic improvement. It is a numeric index (or scale) that ranges from a low of 200 to a high of 1000. A school' score or placement on the API is an indicator of a school's performance level. The interim statewide API performance target for all schools is 800. A school's growth is measured by how well it is moving toward or past that goal.
ø Washington State Report Card - There is a report card for each school. You will find general information about school demographics, student academic performance, and staff characteristics. It contains important information about our K-12 community that is directly pertinent to you and your family.
ø Wisconsin School Performance Report -
The Wisconsin School Performance Report (SPR) was created in 1991 with the passage of State Statute 115.38. It serves as the state's annual public school report card, and represents the department's most comprehensive resource for data on school performance and student achievement.










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