Louisiana Threads the Needle on ED Reform: Launching a Coherent Curriculum in a Local-Control State
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| Title: | Louisiana Threads the Needle on ED Reform: Launching a Coherent Curriculum in a Local-Control State |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Pondiscio, Robert |
| Source: | Education Next. Fall 2017 17(4):9-15. |
| Availability: | Hoover Institution. Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-6010. Tel: 800-935-2882; Fax: 650-723-8626; e-mail: educationnext@hoover.stanford.edu; Web site: http://educationnext.org/journal/ |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 7 |
| Publication Date: | 2017 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Evaluative |
| Education Level: | Elementary Secondary Education |
| Descriptors: | National Competency Tests, Common Core State Standards, School District Autonomy, School Districts, Educational Change, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Implementation, Educational Quality, Superintendents, Public Schools, Elementary Secondary Education |
| Geographic Terms: | Louisiana |
| Assessment and Survey Identifiers: | National Assessment of Educational Progress |
| ISSN: | 1539-9664 |
| Abstract: | Officials of state education agencies are not known for hyperbole. Maintaining data systems, drafting rules and regulations, and monitoring compliance are not the stuff of breathless raves--especially in Louisiana, whose education system ranks near the bottom nationwide on measures of student achievement and high-school graduation rates. Yet in the last year, education leaders from across the country have beaten a path here to see what they might learn from state education superintendent John White; his assistant superintendent of academics, Rebecca Kockler; and their colleagues. Together, this team has quietly engineered a system of curriculum-driven reforms that have prompted Louisiana's public school teachers to change the quality of their instruction in measurable and observable ways. These advances are unmatched in other states that, like Louisiana, have adopted Common Core or similar standards. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Entry Date: | 2017 |
| Access URL: | https://educationnext.org/journal/fall-2017-vol-17-no-4/ |
| Accession Number: | EJ1155329 |
| Database: | ERIC |
| Abstract: | Officials of state education agencies are not known for hyperbole. Maintaining data systems, drafting rules and regulations, and monitoring compliance are not the stuff of breathless raves--especially in Louisiana, whose education system ranks near the bottom nationwide on measures of student achievement and high-school graduation rates. Yet in the last year, education leaders from across the country have beaten a path here to see what they might learn from state education superintendent John White; his assistant superintendent of academics, Rebecca Kockler; and their colleagues. Together, this team has quietly engineered a system of curriculum-driven reforms that have prompted Louisiana's public school teachers to change the quality of their instruction in measurable and observable ways. These advances are unmatched in other states that, like Louisiana, have adopted Common Core or similar standards. |
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| ISSN: | 1539-9664 |
