Most States Offer Diploma Seals for Biliteracy

Over the past decade, the number of states offering students the chance to earn seals of biliteracy on their high…
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State Boards Addressed Strategic Plans, Career Skills, and Teaching Endorsements in 2019

This past year saw state boards of education reviewing their career and technical education (CTE) systems, adopting specialized teaching endorsements,…

State Boards Revisit Civics Education and Social Studies Standards

Underscoring renewed national interest in how young people become informed, engaged citizens, at least 31 states proposed 115 bills or…
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States Support Districts in Strengthening Principal Pipelines

From 2011 to 2016, the Wallace Foundation helped six large urban school districts transform how they prepare, hire, and support principals. In an April 2019 report, Susan M. Gates and colleagues found improvements to principal pipelines in these districts to […]

States Ramp Up Computer Science Standards

Thirty-four states have K-12 computer science standards, according to Code.org, up from seven in 2016. In parallel with this wave of new standards adoption, 23 state boards of education included computer science on their agendas in the first half of […]

Iowa and Virginia Weigh Rules on Seclusion and Restraint

State boards of education in Iowa and Virginia considered new regulations this summer intended to curtail abuses in schools’ imposition of seclusion and restraint as means of managing student behavior and to improve schools’ reporting their occurrence. These agenda items […]

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