The Center on Education Policy has been asked by states and other entities to provide technical assistance in their efforts to improve education.
Several examples follow.
The State Board of Education has adopted a policy that every student attending public school will have to pass a series of tests in order to graduate from high school, beginning with the class entering ninth grade in the fall of the year 2000. To establish practices which will help students who might have difficulty in passing these tests, early in 1998, the state board created an Academic Intervention Steering Committee. As part of the Center's work with the Pew Forum on Standards-Based Reform, the director of the Center served on that committee and helped to write its report. The State Board of Education adopted that report after that presentation in October. As in many states, there is no formal connection between New Jersey's teacher education programs in institutions of higher education, state certification of teachers, and the new state academic content standards.