Please take a listen to the new NGA Education School Leadership podcast series! On School Leadership Hot Topics, nationally recognized education experts share their knowledge and insights on strategies and promising ...
Prenatal to Age Three Learning Collaborative January 7-9, 2019 | New Orleans, Louisiana NGA Center Education Division hosted its Integrating and Advancing State Prenatal to Age Three Policies Learning Collaborative in ...
The National Governors Association (NGA) Center for Best Practices, in partnership with ACT, the nonprofit learning, measurement and navigation organization behind the ACT® test, is releasing its initial 10 one-page ...
Governors are the only state leaders who oversee the entire pipeline from birth through postsecondary education and into the workforce. As such, governors and their staff play a critical role as performance managers, ...
The current structure of state elementary and secondary education systems is fundamentally mismatched with the demands of the 21st Century. The system focuses on inputs, such as the time students spend in a seat in the class ...
The NGA Center has identified the provision of quality choices in education as a crucial issue for states as they move forward in meeting higher expectations for student achievement and graduation rates for all students. To ...
Economic growth in the 21st century will be driven by our nation’s ability to both generate ideas and translate them into innovative products and services. Improving high school graduation rates and ensuring that all ...
The most important school-based factor influencing student achievement is the quality of a school’s workforce—the teachers and leaders responsible for setting high expectations and delivering top quality instruction. ...
The Common Core is a set of high-quality academic standards in mathematics and English language arts/literacy (ELA). These learning goals outline what a student should know and be able to do at the end of each grade. The ...
Education policy is a constitutional responsibility of states, and governors play a leading role in efforts to improve education. The challenges states face in K-12 education are complex, and governors must address a wide ...
Though high-quality early learning experiences from infancy through third grade provide children with a strong foundation for academic and lifelong success, more may be needed for the most vulnerable children. Growing ...
Research shows that investments in high-quality early care and education (ECE) programs for children from birth to school entry promote both social and cognitive skills that prepare children for success in kindergarten and ...