Publications and Materials Catalog

Description: Governors’ proposals in Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia, plus notes from other SREB states
Publication #: 12S01
Details: 7 pages; January 2012; free
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Description: The SREB-State Data Exchange has designed new measures on college completion in recent years — and collected and reported data based on these measures. This Research Brief introduces the latest new measures, distinguishes them from graduation rate measures, and reports the first results on time-to-degree and credits-to-degree in the SREB region. It also provides information on the characteristics of graduates, focusing primarily on their beginning status at the institutions from which they graduated.
Publication #: 11E08
Details: November 2011; 14 pages; free
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Author: by Asenith Dixon
Description: As a result of federal funding incentives and a desire to better measure a teacher’s performance and effectiveness in raising student achievement, 12 of the 16 SREB states passed teacher reform legislation over the last three years. This Focus report, SREB’s second recent report on teacher reforms, highlights changes that SREB states made to teacher tenure, dismissal and performance pay policies from 2009 to 2011.
Publication #: 11S11
Details: November 2011; 15 pages; free
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Description: This major report by the SREB Middle Grades Commission, led by Governor Beverly Perdue of North Carolina, issues an urgent call for SREB states to improve student achievement in the middle grades so that students are ready for success in rigorous high school courses and, ultimately, better prepared to graduate and proceed to college or technical training. A New Mission for the Middle Grades offers a comprehensive roadmap for change, with six goals and several specific recommendations, including focusing the middle grades curriculum on literacy and STEM disciplines, and requiring middle grades students to complete individual academic and career plans.
Publication #: 11E15
Details: 22 pages; free
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Description: Research in recent years has confirmed what many parents and principals have always known: Teachers are the most important factor in students’ education — and some teachers are better than others. In response, policy-makers have called for better teacher evaluations that can identify a range of teacher effectiveness — and researchers have responded with new measures and tools. In response to state requests for assistance in crafting policy on teacher effectiveness and evaluation, this SREB Policy Brief brings together key findings on the components of comprehensive teacher evaluation models from top researchers and policy groups.
Publication #: 11E14
Details: 10 pages; free
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Description: For nearly a decade, states have had flexibility in collecting and reporting graduation rate data for state and federal accountability purposes. But in 2008, the U.S. Department of Education issued new guidelines that require all states to report a new rate — the four-year adjusted cohort graduation rate — beginning in the 2011-2012 school year. This SREB Policy on Point report, part of the Challenge to Lead education goals series, explains the new rate, assesses the readiness of SREB states to adopt it and what to expect after the transition, and reports the most recently reported graduation rate data.
Publication #: 11E05
Details: 4 pages; 2011; free
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Description: This program provides detailed information about the 2011 HSTW Staff Development Conference, in Nashville, Tennessee, July 20-23. The program includes descriptions of the 600-plus conference sessions, as well as information about pre-conference professional development opportunities, registration information, maps of the Gaylord Opryland Convention Center and more.
Publication #: 11V17
Details: 2011; 136 pages
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Description: The 2011 Southern Regional Education Board annual report describes SREB’s recent achievements and how the organization has helped its 16 member states improve education in tough economic times. The report highlights program activities and also includes remarks from the Board Chair and President, acknowledgement of financial contributors, and lists of the members of the Board, Legislative Advisory Council and SREB staff.
Publication #: 11E06
Details: 28 pages; 2011; free
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Author: Asenith Dixon
Description: State budget shortfalls and federal Race to the Top funding restrictions have given policy-makers in many states a new incentive to transform their education statutes by altering policies affecting a number of common issues, including teacher evaluations, tenure, dismissal and compensation. This Focus report on teacher evaluation policies is the first in a series of reports on these bills. It looks at common elements of new legislation and seven SREB states that have restructured their teacher evaluation systems.
Publication #: 11S07
Details: 9 pages; June 2011; free
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Author: Jeffrey Grove
Description: Nearly 30 percent of adults in the United States have a criminal record, and research has determined that nearly two-thirds of inmates return to prison within three years of their release. This Focus report looks at adults with criminal records as an underserved population who might benefit greatly from educational services, which have been shown to increase employability and lower the risk of returning to incarceration. The report examines barriers these individuals face in continuing their education, including federal and state restrictions on financial aid, and the role of re-entry programs in helping former inmates transition into society and lead stable lives.
Publication #: 11S06
Details: June 2011; 7 pages; free
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Description: Gene Bottoms' opening presentation
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Author: Matthew Lenard
Description: The majority of states nationwide and all 16 SREB states now link eligibility for a driver’s license to school attendance (and in some cases to academic performance) through state laws that SREB has labeled attend ‘n’ drive laws.
Publication #: 11E02
Details: 12 pages; 2011; Free
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Description: This is the fifth in a series of eight newsletters highlighting best practices presented at the 2010 HSTW Staff Development Conference in Louisville, Kentucky. These newsletters contain information about successful actions schools across the nation are taking to design schools for the future.
This newsletter offers nearly 30 articles describing a variety of research-based strategies schools across the HSTW, MMGW and TCTW networks are using to improve student outcomes.
Publication #: 11V10w
Details: 2011; 29 pages; Available in digital format only
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Description: Despite an increasing realization of how far behind the United States has fallen behind its global competitors, a tremendous gap remains in how well we prepare our students for the challenging new century. This important and timely report explores specific practices and strategies implemented by 11 successful TCTW sites to increase reading and mathematics achievement and to prepare students for postsecondary studies and careers.
Publication #: 12V02
Details: 2012; 28 pages
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Description: 2012 HSTW Proposal To Present Form
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Description: 2012 HSTW Pre-Registration Form: Half-Day Sessions
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Description: 2012 HSTW Registration Form
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Publication #: 12V02w
Details: 2012; 20 pages: Available in digital format only
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Publication #: 12v01
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Description: This bookmarked pdf contains 5 SREB charts and reports on teachers policies and legislation in SREB states, also available separately.
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Description: This SREB chart looks at evaluation, tenure, teacher effectiveness, dismissal, grievance and performance pay legislation in the region.
Details: November 2011; 22 pages
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Author: by Jenny Hite
Description: This document includes two charts: one for the 16 SREB states and one for the nation.
Details: November 2011; 11 pages
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Author: Joseph L. Marks
Description: The SREB Fact Book on Higher Education includes data on the population and economy, enrollment, degrees, student tuition and financial aid, faculty and administrators, revenue and expenditures. With more than 100 tables of detailed information, the Fact Book is one of the nation’s most respected and most comprehensive collections of comparative data on higher education.
Publication #: 11E04
Details: 197 pages; November 2011; $15 each
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Description: 2011 Featured Facts report on higher education for Florida
Publication #: 11E13
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Author: Jon Schmidt-Davis and Gene Bottoms
Description: Each year, more than 18,000 principals in our nation’s public schools leave their jobs. Decades of school leadership research make it clear that these vacancies must be filled immediately, and they must be filled with school leaders who have the strength of character, the knowledge about learning and the leadership savvy to thrive in what is arguably education’s most challenging job. But who is next? Who will ensure that each of these schools moves toward higher levels of performance? In this report, the Southern Regional Education Board outlines critical actions that states, districts, universities and principals themselves should take as part of a systematic plan to address principal succession. The report makes the case for principal succession planning and describes six steps for succession planning that states and districts can implement to ensure they have the right principals for the job.
Publication #: 11V19
Details: 2011; 52 pages; $7.50 each, $5 each for 10 or more copies
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Description: Each year, a variety of questions arise from both new and experienced HSTW and TCTW sites on how they can encourage students to put forth their best effort to attain valid and reliable results. This document answers frequently asked questions and shares tips and strategies from SREB staff members, HSTW and TCTW state coordinators, and schools that have been successful in administering the HSTW Assessment.
Publication #: 09V23w-R11
Details: Available in digital version only.
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Description: This is the first in a series of eight newsletters highlighting best practices presented at the 2011HSTW Staff Development Conference in Nashville, Tennessee. These newsletters contain information about successful actions schools across the nation are taking to provide all students with powerful opportunities to become high-achieving, high-performing learners.

This newsletter describes how schools are aligning classroom instruction, assignments and assessments with the new Common Core State Standards and other rigorous standards. The three main sections of the newsletter address strategies for moving the new standards into the classroom, evaluating student learning, and using differentiated learning to ensure all students can meet rigorous standards.
Publication #: 11v20w
Details: 2011; 12 pages
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