State Policy on Professional Development: Rethinking the Linkages to Student Outcomes

August 1999

Edward P. St. John, Indiana University
James G. Ward, University of Illinois
Sabrina W.M. Laine, North Central Regional Educational Laboratory

Contents

Executive Summary

Changing Policy Context

• Refocusing State Policies on Professional Development
• State Funding for Professonal Development

A Framework for Identifying the Linkages Between Professional Development Programs and Student Outcomes

• Models for Defining Linkages
• Criteria for Identifying Linkages
• Estimating Government Subsidies for Professional Development

• A Preliminary Framework

An Analysis of Professional Development in Two States

• Case Studies
• Analysis

Reshaping State Policy

• Questions to Guide Policy Development

Conclusions

References

Appendix

Acknowledgements

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