Center for Standards, Assessment, and Accountability

Keyword: Accountability

Aboriginal Education Strategy: First Nation, Métis and Inuit Education Policy Framework

This website contains the comprehensive aboriginal education policy for the province of Ontario, Canada. It includes a policy framework, information from conferences, and curriculum guides. The navigation tab includes extensive lesson plans and course expectations for elementary and secondary courses. The website contains curricular strategies pages/guides for aboriginal language teaching. All resources are aligned with […]

Building Bridges to Success for First Nation, Métis, and Inuit Students: Developing Policies for Voluntary, Confidential Aboriginal Student Self-Identification: Successful Practices for Ontario School Boards

This document provides guidance for educational organizations to create and implement systems that allow students to self-identify as Aboriginal people. The collected data can then be used for student services and to monitor student achievement. While many of the legal concerns would be different in the U.S. context, this document provides a baseline of steps […]

Making Career Readiness Count

The purpose of this brief is to ensure that the “career” in states’ college- and career-ready standards is not an afterthought but features prominently in states’ accountability and public reporting systems. The brief examines how states are currently using career-focused indicators in accountability and in public reporting systems, and it highlights several states that are […]