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About the Education Division
The NGA Center for Best Practices' Education Division provides information on best practices in early childhood, elementary and secondary, and postsecondary education, including teacher quality, high school redesign, reading, access to and success in postsecondary education, extra learning opportunities, and school readiness.
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Division Director Dane Linn | profile
Program Director Ilene Berman, Ed.D. | profile
Program Director Bridget Curran | profile
Program Director David Wakelyn | profile
Division News
Common Core Standards Draft K-12 Common Core State Standards Available for Comment
The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) released the first official public draft of the K-12 standards as part of the Common Core State Standards Initiative
NGA Center Brief Provides Strategies for States to Build Early Childhood Professional Development Systems
The NGA Center released a new issue brief, Building an Early Childhood Professional Development System, which outlines ways for states to ensure high-quality early childhood care and education programs that improve school readiness and later outcomes for young children by building a statewide system of professional development for personnel who work with young children.
Six States to Develop Policies to Fight High School Dropout, Achieve Graduation for All
Despite recent high school reform efforts, the dropout problem in the United States remains daunting. To address this troubling issue that affects all states, the NGA Center announced it has selected six states to develop comprehensive state dropout prevention and recovery policies through the State Strategies to Achieve Graduation for All initiative.