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International Benchmarking Advisory Group - Benchmarking for Success:  Ensuring U.S. Students Receive a World-class Education  -  The report explains the urgent need for action and outlines what states and the federal government must do to ensure students receive a world-class education that provides expanded opportunities for college and career success. (December 2008)

National Academy of Education - Education Policy White Papers Project Initiative  -  The National Academy of Education has undertaken an initiative to connect policymakers in a new administration and Congress with the best available evidence on selected education policy issues. The project is designed to help policymakers better understand key education issues and to strengthen their ability to formulate effective policies by providing them with independent, research-based information. (November 2008)

Measuring Skills for the 21st Century - Business and higher education leaders are pleading with schools to teach "21st-century skills," such as interdisciplinary thinking, that students need to flourish in an increasingly global, technology-rich society. Some assessments, such as the College Work and Readiness Assessment, are emerging and offer promise for evaluating the broad and deep sets of skills students need now. (November 2008)

Plotting School Choice:  The Challenges of Crossing District Lines  -  For people seeking ways to reduce economic and racial segregation in public education, there's growing interest in allowing students to transfer to schools beyond district lines, notes Education Sector in this report. But while the strategy may be seen as a way to "give students in failing schools a better chance to achieve," the nonprofit think tank says its analysis shows that the approach actually is "unlikely to increase most students educational opportunities significantly." (August 2008)

The Commission on the Whole Child has issued a new report, The Learning Compact Redefined: A Call to Action.  This study provides the impetus for educators, policymakers, parents, community leaders and other stakeholders to change the conversation about learning and schooling from reforming its structures to transforming its conditions so that each child can develop his strengths and restore her unique capacities for intellectual, social, emotional, physical and spiritual learning.  Here it is. (May 2007)

The Commission on the Whole Child has another report that calls for attention on the conditions that evidence makes clear are essential to learning.  The Learning Compact Redefined: A Call to Action,  stresses that current educational practice and policy focus on academic achievement, which is a necessary but not sufficient element of student learning and development, and only a part of any complete system of educational accountability. (April 2007)

The Council of Chief State School Officers has released its latest in a biennial series of reports on key state education policies.  The report examines policies on teacher preparation and certification, high school graduation requirements, student assessment programs, school time and assessment and school leader/administrator licensure is provided. (March 2007)