12.1 Understanding Reform
12.2 Reform: Focus on the Curriculum
12.3 Reform: Focus on Schools
12.4 Reform: Focus on the Teacher
Summary
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What is the definition of Reform?
Suggested changes in teaching and teacher preparation intended to increase student learning.
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Students are required to demonstrate that they've met the standards, and as teachers you will be ensuring that they do
Accountability 
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Educational option in which parents teach their children at home. 
Homeshcooling
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Process of assessing teachers classroom room performance and providing feedback they can use to increase their expertise
Teacher Evaluation 
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The best known and most effective charter school program 
Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP)
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What is the definition for Standard?
Statements specifying what students should know or be able to do upon completing an area of study
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How many states have adopted the CCSSI standards?
41
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Alternative schools that are publicly funded but semi-independently operated
Charter Schools 
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Supplement to a teachers base salary used to reward exemplary performance 
Merit Pay
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Second largest professional teachers association that has participated in pilot teacher evaluation programs 
American Federation of Teachers (AFT)
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This uses information, typically student test score data, to spur and guide improvements in teaching and learning.
Data driven reform
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Name of Georgia's current standardized test

             Georgia Milestone Assessment System

                               (GMAS)

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BONUS:

States are competing in what is called ________ __ ___ ______ in order to address national standards, performance evaluations, merit pay, and charter schools

Race to the top 
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Nations Largest professional teachers association that has resisted teacher assessments through standardized testing
National Education Association (NEA) 
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The current educational reform movement began with the analysis of the link between
economic growth and education
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This is a battery of achievement tests administered periodically to carefully selected samples of students.
National Assessment of Educational Progress
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Reform effort designed to establish a single set of clear educational standards for all states in the major subject areas
           Common Core State Standards Initiative

                               (CCSSI) 

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Term used to describe a variety of programs designed to allow families to choose a different option than attending the assigned school in their geographical location 
School Choice
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Plans that offer teachers additional pay or bonuses for taking on extra responsibilities, working in high need areas, or performing in an exemplary way 
Pay for Performance 
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Many states are adapting national standards to decrease
variability
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This used comparable standardized test score data from other industrialized countries.
Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)
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Standardized assessments that states and districts use to determine whether students will advance from one grade to another, graduate high school, or have access to specific fields of study
 high-stakes test
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A variation inf school voucher programs in which families are given tax credits for money spent of private school tuition. 
State Tuition Tax-Credit Plans 
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A portion of teacher evaluations that asses the amount students learn by the standardized test scores in a single classroom, and recognizes and awards accomplishments in that classroom 
Value-added Models 
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12.1 Testing program designed to provide a comprehensive picture of student achievement in different countries across the world.
Program For International Student Assessment
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