Resource Spotlight (Search Archive)
Learning from Leadership: Investigating the Links to Improved Student Learning - Final Report to the Wallace Foundation
Louis, K. S., Leithwood, K., Wahlstrom, K. L., & Anderson, S. E. (2010, July)
Minneapolis, MN & Toronto, ON: University of Minnesota CAREI& University of Toronto OISE
“The broad focus for this 6-year study funded by the Wallace Foundation [was] to identify the nature of successful educational leadership and to better understand how such leadership can improve educational practices and student learning.” The three sections of this 300-page report focus on, respectively, school, district, and state leaders’ contributions. Each section concludes with a synthesis of implications for policy and practice.
State Spotlight (Search Archive)
College- and Career-Ready: Using Outcomes Data to Hold High Schools Accountable for Student Success (pdf)
Alderman, C. (2010, January)
Washington, DC: Education Sector
This report highlights Florida’s new data system, which tracks “student progress after high school into the work force and college, allowing vital information to flow between K–12, higher education, and work-force information systems.” Using “10th-grade test scores, college-going rates, remedial participation and completion rates, college GPAs, full-time employment, and wage data for 221 Florida public high schools,” the index ensures “a more comprehensive assessment of high schools.”
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