At Pattonville High School, students get a warning and temporary badge for the first time they forget their badge. Parents are notified for the second offense. Every eight weeks, each child in the early elementary grades is given a 20-minute oral exam. Data from the assessments are used to re-arrange reading groups, if necessary. Children struggling to read may receive a running record on a daily basis.
Some schools also use frequent assessments in math.
A new Department of Education report shows a decline in high school enrollment in vocational education classes throughout the 1980s and 1990s, but the data is difficult to evaluate due to the wide range of courses that constitute vocational education. For example, vocational education courses can range from welding to computer programming. First, researchers examined the link between high school experience and entry into a science and engineering postsecondary program to determine the extent to which women and under represented minorities continue to have lower entry rates in to science and engineering programs at the secondary level. A second analysis was conducted to address issues relating to the persistence and degree attainment by underrepresented minorities and women in postsecondary science and engineering study. McREL, a regional education lab funded by the U.S. Department of Education has produced A Framework for Early Literacy Instruction that provides more detailed guidance around early literacy instruction than afforded by currently available national and state standards documents.