Goals for Education

The interactive goals report provides the full report, with links from many points in the text to SREB publications and data. This document lists the 12 goals, plus the introduction and conclusion for Goals for Education: Challenge to Lead, and provides names and links for the relevant SREB information.

Introduction:

When it comes to education who’d want to be No. 1 in the South?

Education and Progress in the South: 1938 - 1998  

2000 Benchmarks Series

Student Readiness for College: Connecting State Policies

Funding Web-based Courses for K-12 Students to Meet State Educational Goals

1. All children are ready for the first grade.

Building a Foundation for Success by Getting Every Child Ready for School

Challenge to Lead in 2004: Marking Progress, Facing Challenges

Focus on Quality: Prekindergarten Programs in SREB States

Improving Children’s Readiness for School: Preschool Programs Make a Difference, but Quality Counts

When it comes to education who’d want to be No. 1 in the South?

Reaching Uninsured Children

2. Achievement in the early grades for all groups of students exceeds national averages and performance gaps are closed.

Mastering Reading and Mathematics in the Early Grades

Challenge to Lead in 2004: Marking Progress, Facing Challenges

Finding Alternatives to Failure: Can States End Social Promotion and Reduce Retention Rates?

Summer School: Unfulfilled Promise

3. Achievement in the middle grades for all groups of students exceeds national averages and performance gaps are closed.

Making High Schools and Middle Grades Schools Work

Getting the Mission Right in the Middle Grades

Getting Students Ready for College-preparatory/Honors Science: What Middle Grades Students Need to Know and Be Able to Do

Getting Students Ready for College-preparatory/Honors English: What Middle Grades Students Need to Know and Be Able to Do

What Works to Improve Student Achievement in the Middle Grades: A Making Middle Grades Work Research Report

Academic Achievement in the Middle Grades: What Does Research Tell Us?

Opening Doors to the Future: Preparing Low-achieving Middle Grades Students to Succeed in High School

Middle Grades Education Initiative: A Collection of Four Reports

Closing the Gaps in the Middle Grades

A Highly Qualified Teacher in Every Middle Grades Classroom: What States, Districts and Schools Can Do

Making Middle Grades Work Web site

Research Brief: Middle Grades to High School: Mending a Weak Link

Research Brief: Making Middle Grades Work: School and Classroom Practices That Improve Student Achievement

A Highly Qualified Teacher in Every Middle Grades Classroom: What States, Districts and Schools Can Do

Getting Students Ready for Algebra I: What Middle Grades Students Need to Know and Be Able to Do

Improving the Middle Grades: Actions That Can Be Taken Now  

4. All young adults have a high school diploma — or, if not, pass the GED tests.

High School to College and Careers: Aligning State Policies 2007

Getting Serious About High School Graduation

High School to College and Careers: Aligning State Policies (2005)

Making High Schools and Middle Grades Schools Work

Getting High School Graduation Test Policies Right in SREB States

Raise Academic Standards and Get More Students to Complete High School: How 13 Georgia Schools Did It

Reducing Dropout Rates

5. All recent high school graduates have solid academic preparation and are ready for postsecondary education and a career.

Research Brief: High Schools That Work Follow-up Study of 2002 High School Graduates: Implications for Improving Transitions from High School to College and Careers

High Schools That Work: An Education Design to Get All Students to Standards

10 Strategies for Raising Achievement and Improving High School Completion Rates

High Schools That Work: Improving Student Performance - High School to College and Career Transition Practices That Work

High School to College and Careers: Aligning State Policies (2005)

High School Reform Works - When Implemented: A Comprehensive Study of High- and Low- implementation Schools

Getting High School Graduation Test Policies Right in SREB States

Raise Academic Standards and Get More Students to Complete High School: How 13 Georgia Schools Did It

Linking Career/Technical Studies to Broader High School Reform

Research Brief: Improving Achievement Is About Focus and Completing the Right Courses

Research Brief: Effects of High Schools That Work Practices on Student Achievement

Instructional Strategies: How Teachers Teach Matters

Reducing Remedial Education: What Progress Are States Making

Reporting on College Readiness: Information That Connects Colleges and Schools

Research Brief: Guidance and Advisement: Influences on Students' Motivation and Course-taking Choices

Doing What Works: Moving Together on High Standards for All Students

Progress in Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate in SREB States

6. Adults who are not high school graduates participate in literacy and job-skills training and further education.

Investing Wisely in Adult Learning is Key to State Prosperity

Targeting the Adult Learning Challenge in SREB States

Focus on the GED: Who Takes It and Why

7. The percentage of adults who earn postsecondary degrees or technical certificates exceeds national averages.

Investing Wisely in Adult Learning is Key to State Prosperity

Creating College Opportunity for All: Prepared Students and Affordable Colleges

Targeting the Adult Learning Challenge in SREB States

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8. Every school has higher student performance and meets state academic standards for all students each year.

Focusing on Student Performance Through Accountability

High Schools That Work: An Education design to Get All Students to Standards

Raising Achievement and Improving Graduation Rates: How Nine High Schools That Work Sites Are Doing In

Student Readiness for College: Connecting State Policies

Getting Results: A Fresh Look at Accountability

Getting Results with Accountability: Rating Schools, Assisting Schools, Improving Schools

Teaching All Children to Read

Finding Alternatives to Failure: Can States End Social Promotion and Reduce Retention Rates?

Summer School: Unfulfilled Promise

State Leadership in Improving High Schools for More Students

Doing What Works: Moving Together on High Standards for All Students   

9. Every school has leadership that results in improved student performance — and leadership begins with an effective school principal.

Leadership Training Module Brochure

Preparing a New Breed of Principal: Leadership from the University President's Office

Developing Effective leadership Teams — Implementing a High Schools That Work Improvement Design

The Principal Internship: How Can We Get It Right?

Progress Being Made in Getting a Quality Leader in Every School

Preparing a new Breed of School Principals

Leading School Improvement: What Research Says

Are SREB States Making Progress? Tapping, Preparing and Licensing School Leaders Who Can Influence Student Achievement

Leadership Matters: Building Leadership Capacity

10. Every student is taught by qualified teachers.

Well-qualified Teachers and High Quality Teaching: Are They The Same?

Online Professional Development: Why SREB States Should Use It

Resolve and Resources to Get a Qualified Teacher in Every Classroom

SREB States Continue to Lead the Nation in Teachers With National Board Certification

Challenge to Lead in 2004: Marking Progress, Facing Challenges

Focus on Teacher Pay and Incentives: Recent legislative actions and update on salary averages

Focus on "Highly Qualified" Teachers: SREB States Take Action

Focus on Teacher Salaries: Recent Actions in the SREB States

Student Readiness for College: Connecting State Policies

Reduce Your Losses: Help New Teachers Become Veteran Teachers

Quality Teachers: Can Incentive Policies Make a Difference?

Beyond Salaries: Employee Benefits for Teachers in the SREB States

Getting Beyond Talk: State Leadership Needed to Improve Teacher Quality

Focus on Teacher Salaries: What Salary Averages Don’t Show

11. The quality of colleges and universities is regularly assessed and funding is targeted to quality, efficiency and state needs.

SREB Fact Book on Higher Education (2005)

Index of Fact Book tables (2005)

Reporting on College Readiness: Information That Connects Colleges and Schools

Fact Book Bulletin: Most Top-Ranked Universities in South Improve National Standing

12. The state places a high priority on an education system of schools, colleges and universities that is accountable.

Fact Book Bulletin: Tracking Public Funding for Higher Education More Vital as State Budgets Become Strained

Conclusion:

When it comes to education who’d want to be No. 1 in the South?