Tag: adoption

Predictors of States’ Adoption of Common Core State Standards: Federal Incentivization, National Interaction, and Prior Policy Adoption, by Mark LaVenia

Charges of federal overreach have plagued the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) since the Obama administration’s decision to tie adoption of common K-12 standards to the $4.35 billion Race to the Top (RTTT) initiative (e.g., McCluskey 2010; Whitehurst 2010). In the words of Pennsylvania State Representative Glenn Thompson, this decision has transferred the Standards “from
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On the instability of teacher effectiveness measures, by Morgan Polikoff

  One of the most important policy innovations of the last few years has been the adoption and implementation of new multiple-measure teacher evaluation systems. These systems, encouraged by the Obama administration’s Race to the Top and No Child Left Behind Waiver programs, use measures of student learning alongside other measures of teachers’ classroom performance
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