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How to use this presentation deck

How to use this presentation deck. This slide deck has been created by the U.S. Department of Education as a resource tool for the public. The deck may be best described as a “bookshelf.”

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  1. How to use this presentation deck • This slide deck has been created by the U.S. Department of Education as a resource tool for the public. • The deck may be best described as a “bookshelf.” • Within, you will find individual resource “booklets” on topics ranging from early learning to higher education. • Together, these booklets provide facts and data on: • Progress in education reform • The challenges ahead • The U.S. Department of Education’s initiatives in these areas • Please view the notes section on each slide for additional information and resources. • The entire deck is in the public domain, and may be used and shared freely.

  2. Table of contents • America’s Progress in Improving Education • The Challenges Ahead • Ensuring the Middle Class Promise • Quality Early Learning • K-12 Education • Teachers & Leaders • STEM Education • Turnaround Schools • Safe Schools • Standards & Assessments • Technology & Data • College Affordability & Completion • Ladders of Opportunity

  3. Improving educationfor all students

  4. “By 2020, America will once again havethe highest proportion of college graduates in the world.” — President Barack Obama

  5. The good news:America’s progressin improving education

  6. Progress: results for students 700,000 fewer students attending dropout factories

  7. Progress: results for students The highest high school graduation rate in decades

  8. Progress: results for students More Hispanic and African-American students graduating

  9. Progress: results for students More students attending college on pell grants 6 million 9.4 million million

  10. Progress: results for students More Hispanic and african-american students attending college

  11. Progress: Policy ESEA Flexibility Approvedin 42 States, D.C., & Puerto rico Approved Under review

  12. the challenges ahead

  13. The challenge: Many low-income students fail to complete high school

  14. The challenge: Only 29 percent of low-income students go to college

  15. The challenge: Only 9 percent of low-income students complete college

  16. The challenge: making the american dream the american reality

  17. The challenge: Disparities in school discipline Percent of students receiving out-of-school suspensions by gender and race, 2009-2010 10%

  18. The challenge: Disparities in advanced coursework

  19. The challenge: Disparities in high school graduation

  20. Our standing is slipping Results on international academic tests 2012 Average PISA Scores - Mathematics

  21. Our standing is slipping Results on International assessments of adult skills Average PIAAC Literacy Scores U.S. score is lower than international average

  22. Our standing is slipping Percent of non-employed young adults, 25-34 years old

  23. “The United States… has lost its once-large lead in producing college graduates, and education remains the most successful jobs strategy in a globalized, technology-heavy economy.” — The New York Times

  24. “Innovation is a product, process, strategy, or approach that improves significantly upon the status quo and reaches scale.”

  25. The innovation challenge Innovation is more than a “shiny new object” • American education has a two-part innovation challenge: • Many new interventions produce only incremental improvement over the status quo leaving outcomes and the lives of teachers, families, and students, practically unchanged. • Many of the most promising and impactful solutions never achieve scale. • We need new solutions that shatter today’s status quo. • To have impact, solutions must scale to serve millions of students and teachers—or large portions of specific, underserved populations.

  26. ensuring the middle class promise: federal efforts in education

  27. Federal priorities Education Reform efforts in President Obama’s second term Access | Equity | Quality | Outcomes Early childhood Preschool-12 College Career HHS Partnership Preschool for All K12: Implement Reforms Career & College Ready Standards and Assessments Teaching & Leadership Tech & Data Turnaround • Postsecondary • Access & Affordability • Quality • Completion Career & College Readiness for All Ladders of Opportunity Immigration/DREAM Act School/Community Safety and Climate Research | Operations | Enforcement

  28. Investing in education President Obama’s fiscal year (FY) 2014 budget request 2014 BUDGET REQUEST

  29. Cradle to college Improving education across the spectrum Please see the additional slide deck “booklets” in this 13-part presentation for more information about needs and efforts in these areas: • Quality Early Learning • K-12 Education • Teachers & Leaders • STEM Education • Turnaround Schools • Safe Schools • Standards & Assessments • Technology & Data • College Affordability & Completion • Ladders of Opportunity

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