"Education for Our Future: First Report and Recommendations of the Illinois P-20 Council to the Governor, the General Assembly, and the People of Illinois"
January 2012 Full Report
January 2012 Executive Summary
Brochure
Progress on Our Recommendations
Organization Chart
Selected Research
Measuring Inequity in School Funding, Center for American Progress, August 2011
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/08/pdf/funding_equity.pdf
RAND Report on Expanded Measures of School Performance 2011
http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/technical_reports/2011/RAND_TR968.pdf
Summer learning programs can help close the achievement gap in a cost-effective way, RAND study shows.
http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG1120.html
New Data Quality Campaign Report: Using Data to Improve Teacher Effectiveness.
http://dataqualitycampaign.org/files/DQC-TE-primer-July6-low-res.pdf
Voices for IL Children - Kids Count 2012: Investing in Children NOW
http://voices4kids.org/library/files/KC2012/2012KC-CompleteReport.pdf
Useful Links
Achieve.Org, American Diploma Project Network
http://www.achieve.org/
Center on Education Policy
http://www.cep-dc.org/
Common Core State Standards
http://www.corestandards.org/
Education Week, June 5, 2008 "P-16 Councils Bring All Tiers of Education to the Table" by Scott J. Cech.
Illinois School Leader Taskforce
http://www.illinoisschoolleader.org/
Illinois' Elementary and Secondary Education Act/No Child Left Behind Waiver Request
http://www.isbe.net/nclb_waivers/default.htm
Illinois Interactive Report Card
http://iirc.niu.edu
Illinois Public Agenda for College and Career Success: One Illinois Initiative
http://www.youtube.com/embed/DSl07n6NcDw?rel=0
United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Education Investment Plan
http://agencies.uw-mc.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/UWMC-Education-Investment-Plan-Spring-2011.pdf
Data Quality Campaign
http://www.dataqualitycampaign.org/
Education Commission of the States - P-16 Issues
http://www.ecs.org/html/issue.asp?issueID=76
Indiana's Education Roundtable
http://www.in.gov/edroundtable/
KnowHow2Go--college preparation
http://www.knowhow2go.org/
Postsecondary Connection: Resources for P-20 Council Members
http://www.postsecconnect.org/resources-for/P-20%20Council%20Members
Minnesota P-20 Education Partnership
http://mnp20.org/index.html
Montgomery County Public Schools College Readiness
http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/info/keys/
Nebraska P-16
https://p16.nebraska.edu/
National Conference of State Legislators - bill-tracking database
http://www.ncsl.org//Default.aspx?tabid=12913
Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education
http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/info/keys/
Partnership for 21st Century Skills
http://www.p21.org/
PARCC Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers
http://parcconline.org/