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Demonstrating Skills of Value
State education leaders are focused on ensuring students graduate ready for life after high school—but how do students know they’re building valuable, transferable skills, and how will employers and colleges recognize them?View Full Issue
Featured Articles from this Issue
The Role of State Boards in Making Credentials’ Value Transparent
By Scott CheneyNot all credentials are created equal, so how will students and families choose?
Weighing the Value of Industry-Based Certifications against Their Costs
By Madison E. Andrews, Kaitlin Ogden and Matt S. GianiA study of Texas’s move to offer bonuses and add accountability measures for attainment reveals some unintended consequences.
Civic-Ready Students
More and better civics will inspire students to become better citizens who will be equipped to participate, preserve, and defend America’s democracy and engage in reasoned, respectful discourse.
The Educators Students Deserve: Four State Policy Approaches
State education leaders have long prioritized efforts to recruit and retain effective teachers. Yet persistent challenges, including high turnover rates and teacher shortages in key subject areas, continue to strain the educator workforce.
Transitions
State policymakers have a role in ensuring that schools work together to prepare students to transition well.
Connecting Schools and Communities
Authors in this issue of the Standard suggest myriad ways in which communities can be force multipliers for ensuring that all children are engaged in learning and prepared to thrive as adults.
Technology in Education
Savvy state leaders will set their sights on ways to broaden access to technology’s benefits, solve problems confronting educators, and protect students against the risks of misuse.
Preschool for All
The state role in early education keeps growing. This Standard details the ways that states have expanded access to quality preschool, the research that supports these efforts, and the growing pains these initiatives are likely to experience.
Curriculum That Counts
Authors in this issue of the Standard draw lessons from a spectrum of state policies that are being used to increase the adoption of high-quality curriculum.
Engaging All Students
Authors explore the reasons why students increasingly feel uninspired and disengaged at school and outline steps state leaders can take to help schools and districts increase students’ engagement and connectedness.