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Author(s):Legal Center for Foster Care and Education
Title:Fostering Connections Act: Implementation Checklists for Education Provisions
Source:http://www.abanet.org/child/education/publicati...
Date:2009
Organization:Legal Center for Foster Care and Education
Short Description:These checklists are designed to guide conversations in each state that will ensure thoughtful implementation of these important education provisions and that will involve representatives from these agencies and entities as well as other stakeholders interested in implementing Fostering Connections and improving education outcomes for children in foster care.
Annotation:State and local education and child welfare agencies will need to work separately and together in a structured way to ensure that children in foster care get the benefits of the education provisions of Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008 (Fostering Connections). These checklists are designed to guide conversations in each state that will ensure thoughtful implementation of these important education provisions and that will involve representatives from these agencies and entities as well as other stakeholders interested in implementing Fostering Connections and improving education outcomes for children in foster care.
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The impact of school counseling on student educational outcomes in high schools: What can we learn about effectiveness from statewide evaluations of school counseling practice in Nebraska and Utah
State high school tests: Exit exams and other assessments
Profiting from health care: The role of for-profit schools in training the health care workforce
Hear us out: High school students in two cities talk about going to college
A portrait of school improvement grantees
Advancing teacher and prinicpal effectiveness: Four recommendations for reforming the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Performance incentives to improve community college completion: Learning from Washington State's Student Achievement Initiative (a state policy brief)
ESEA Briefing Book
Research support for school counseling
Spotlight on the common core state standards: What do parents need to know?
Making the grade: Texas early college high schools prepare students for the future
The transition to adulthood: How states can support older youth in foster care
Assessing developmental assessment in community colleges
College and career development organizer
High school improvement: Indicators of effectiveness and school-level benchmarks
Accelerating college knowledge: Examining the feasibility of a targeted early commitment Pell Grant program
Learning from the past: Drawing on California's CLAS experience to inform assessment of the Common Core
The common core state standards: Caution and opportunity for early childhood education
Men of color: A role for policymakers in improving the status of black male students in U.S. higher education
Cornerstones of completion: State policy support for accelerated, structured pathways to college credentials and transfer
States need to fill in the gaps on expanded learning time: Troubling lack of detail seen in No Child Left Behind waiver applications
Dual enrollment: Reviewing programs to promote college completion
The nation's report card: Science 2011
MPI updates national and state level estimates of potential DREAM Act beneficiaries
Weighing the evidence: A conversation with community college presidents on using research to support student success outcomes
The importance of being in school: A report on absenteeism in the nation's public schools
Using dual enrollment policy to improve college & career readiness: A web tool for decision makers
Stopped short: 2.1 Million adults in Florida went to college but didn't finish
Raising the bar from Ready by 21 to credentialed by 26: Highlights from community and state efforts
Compendium of practices to increase Latino college completion 2012: Profiles of organizational efforts
Third grade literacy policies: Identification, intervention, retention
50-state mathematics requirements for the standard high school diploma
Supporting our youngest children: Early Head Start programs in 2010
No child left behind waivers: Promising ideas from second round applications
SREB State progress reports 2012
Getting ready for success: Bridging the gap between high school and college in Tacoma, Washington
Overcoming the poverty challenge to enable college and career readiness for all: The crucial role of student supports
The condition of college and career readiness 2012: National report
Review of the effects of school vouchers on college enrollment: Experimental evidence from New York City
Staying in school: A proposal to raise high school graduation rates
A problem still in search of a solution: A state policy roadmap for improving early education

 

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