Resources from National Association of State Boards of Education

National Association of State Boards of Education

Resource Title: Caring Communities: Report of the National Task Force on School Readiness
Price: $10.00
Description: 1991, 56 pp. This report redefines school readiness and presents a vision for what schools, communities, families, and federal and state governments must do if the nation is to meet the important national goal of ensuring that every child comes to school ready to learn. The Task Force was chaired by then-governor Bill Clinton.

Resource Title: Creating Good Schools for Young Children: Right from the Start
Price: $12.00
Description: 1995, 48 pp. This is a study of 11 developmentally appropriate elementary school programs based on the principles set out in Right from the Start. It provides detailed descriptions of the programs, looks at how they were developed, gives results in terms of student achievement and other indicators, and reviews the lessons learned.

Resource Title: Online Reports and Policy Briefs on Family Involvement
Price: Free
Description: NASBE has published the following reports and policy briefs concerning family involvement:

• Report: Partners in Educational Improvement: Schools, Parents, and the Community, by Tom Schultz (1989)

• Policy Brief: Family Involvement in Education

• Policy Brief: Grandparents and Other Relatives Raising Children: Implications for Schools

• Policy Brief: Parent Involvement

Resource Title: Right from the Start
Price: $8.50
Description: 1988, 55 pp. This is a report of NASBE's Early Childhood Education Task Force, which held hearings and visited schools in four cities to gather information on the status of early childhood learning. Now in its sixth printing, this seminal work calls for developmentally appropriate, ungraded elementary school units to serve children 4-8 and for new partnerships between schools and early childhood programs and community agencies.

Resource Title: Winning Ways: Creating Inclusive Schools, Classrooms, and Communities
Price: $12.00
Description: 1995, 48 pp. This follow-up report to Winners All takes an in-depth look at the roles a variety of groups and organizations (including teachers, parents, board members, administrators, and higher education) can play in promoting inclusive education. Based on individual interviews and focus group discussions with people actually involved in creating inclusive educational settings, Winning Ways provides each group with recommendations, strategies for action, and pitfalls to be avoided.