Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Top 12 Issues in Education for 2012

The nonpartisan group Education Commission of the States (“ECS”) has compiled a list of the top 12 issues to move education forward in 2012.  They include:

1. Pre-K: Expanding the focus to P-3.


2. K-12 finance: Creating and maintaining efficiency and financial accountability without lowering expectations.


3. Blended learning: Getting moving. Getting it right.


4. Common Core State Standards: From talking to doing.


5. Developing civic engagement in PK-12: State action in the absence of federal funding.


6. Teaching quality: Fasten your seatbelts!


7. Rural: Enhancing the potential of education in rural America.


8. Data: Access to what teachers and leaders need to improve student outcomes (and the skills to use it).


9. Individualized instruction: Faster. Cheaper. Smarter.


10. Performance funding: Building a model without a blueprint?


11. Remedial education: We know more now than we ever have.


12. Credentials of value: Some are better than others.

Which of these issues do you think are the most important for California?  Would you add any issues that aren’t on this list?

For in depth coverage on these issues and to read ECS’s complete forecast, “12 for 2012,” click
here.

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