Education

Community

School Improvement in Maryland: • http://www.mdk12.org

Quality Counts 2007 is Education Week's annual report on state-level efforts to improve public education: • http://www.edweek.org/rc/articles/2004/10/15/qc-archive.html

Pathways to School Improvement has information on research in educational issues, and lets you visit schools that put the research into practice.http://www.ncrel.org/ncrel/sdrs/pathways.htm

Baldridge:

NAEP Reading Report Card for the Nation from National Center for Education Statistics, US Dept of Ed. National Assessment of Educational Progress's (NAEP) report provides reading results. Of special interest are School and Home Factors Related to Reading Performance. http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/reading
Report of the National Reading Panel: Teaching Children to Read Study on best practices for reading instruction which found that a combination of teaching Phonics, word sounds,and giving feedback on oral reading is the most effective way to teach reading. http://www.nichd.nih.gov/publications/nrppubskey.cfm

Writing Report Card for the Nation from National Center for Education Statistics, US Dept of Ed. National Assessment of Educational Progress's (NAEP) report provides writing assessment results. It contains average scores and achievement level performance for the nation and 39 states including Maryland; Customized State Reports contain an overview of results for public schools and comparisons to other participating states. http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/writing/