Friday saw the long awaited guidelines for states to apply for approximately $4 billion in aid to improve student achievement. Find them here. Caution: Opens in pdf, you can also follow the link from the US Dept of Education web site.
A few highlights of the requirements to receive funding:
Teacher and principal evaluations must be tied to student achievement.
States must adopt internationally benchmarked standards. Currently the NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress) is used to compare the 50 states, which all have different standards, to each other and other countries. Minnesota's "proficient" standard in reading on the 8th grade MCA II is roughly equivalent to the "basic" level on the NAEP.
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