Department of Education Action Plan Fact Sheet
Posted on September 30th, 2006 by AccreditedClasses.com
The Department of Education released a two-page fact sheet in reference to the September 26th announcement made by Secretary Margaret Spellings. The fact sheet is a downloadable document in PDF format. The fact sheet covers the Secretary’s proposals to:
- Strengthen K-12 preparation and align high school standards with college expectations.
- Work with Congress to expand the successful principles of the No Child Left Behind Act to high schools.
- Redesign the 12th-grade NAEP (Nation’s Report Card) test to provide state-level estimates of college and workforce readiness.
- Raise awareness and mobilize leadership to address the issue of adult literacy as a barrier to national
- competitiveness and individual opportunity.
- Develop a federal research agenda for adult literacy to identify strategies, models and programs that work.
Referenced Source(s):U.S. Department of Education, http://www.ed.gov/about/bdscomm/list/hiedfuture/actionplan-factsheet.pdf
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