Developing and Implementing Self-Direction Programs and Policies: A Handbook

Provides a guide to designing, implementing, and evaluating service delivery models that allow public program participants to manage their own care services and supports. Outlines elements of employer and budget authorities, enrollment, and counseling

Review of employment and skills: April 2011

"This Review has its foundation in the Leitch Report published in 2006, which recommended the development of an “integrated employment and skills service to help people meet the challenges of the modern labour market” and for the UK Commission for Employment and Skills to report on the changes required to deliver integrated services. The UK Commission’s 2010-11 Grant in Aid Letter required: “The continuation of a Review that has as its focus progress on integrating employment and skills systems”. This report covers England only. There will be separate reporting for Wales and Scotland after the elections in May 2011." - Page 5

Predictive Analytics In Higher Education: Five Guiding Practices for Ethical Use

Without ethical practices, student data could be used to curtail academic success rather than help ensure it. For example, without a clear plan in place, an institution could use predictive analytics to justify using fewer resources to recruit low-income students because their chances of enrolling are less sure than for more affluent prospective students. In this report, New America lays out important questions to consider as administrators formulate how to use predictive analytics ethically

Learning While Doing in the Human Services Sector: Becoming a Learning Organization Through Organizational Change

Outlines Casey Family Services' model for organizational learning and managing change; the process and outcomes of shifting focus to securing permanent, loving families for children and youth and their timely exit from foster care; and recommendations

National curriculum assessments review report: 2010 key stage 2 tests

Executive summary The Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual) is the regulator of qualifications, examinations and assessments in England, and is committed to ensuring that standards are maintained and that learners get the results they deserve. We keep under review the National Curriculum assessments developed by the Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency (QCDA), in relation to a Regulatory Framework and Code of Practice. This report presents the findings of our review of the 2010 National Curriculum key stage 2 tests, with a particular focus on the marking and standards setting processes. It considers the various meetings and other activity reviewed in 2010, and concludes as follows