The third annual edition of Education Week 's 50-state report card on public education focuses on state efforts to promote accountability in schools to ensure that children are getting a good education and tax dollars aren't being wasted. The 206-page report will be released at a press conference in Washington on January 7. It includes results from an exhaustive, 50-state survey on how states will hold schools, students, and educators responsible in 1999. Finally, Quality Counts continues to chronicle the progress toward education reform in the states.
Report cards on each state summarize how they are doing in several key performance areas.
Quality Counts is produced in collaboration with The Pew Charitable Trusts. Education Week subscribers will receive their copy in the mail, dated Jan. 11, 1999. 1998 Editorial Projects in Education Vol.