White papers and documentation concerning accreditation, school improvement, No Child Left Behind legislation, and NCA CASI

• Have You Been AYP'd Yet?
  Straight forward advice from NAESP to schools that are identified "in need of improvement."

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• Making Connections: NCA-CASI and the Baldrige Education Criteria
  This document provides merge points between NCA CASI and Baldrige as a personalized system of improvement and evaluation meeting unique needs of individual districts and schools.

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• Making Connections: NCLB No Child Left Behind
  To earn NCA CASI accreditation, schools must meet quality standards, be evaluated by an outside group of professionals, and engage in continuous school improvement focused on increasing student performance. Known as the Performance Accreditation framework.

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• NCA CASI's Position on No Child Left Behind
  This position paper details NCA-CASI's position on the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.

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• “The Numbers Game” Principal Leadership
  Dr. Deborah Jeffries Dusseau, Dr. David Bitter, and Dr. David S. Hurst, September 2003, p. 49-54. "This article is posted with permission from Principal Leadership." Principal Leadership is a publication of the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP). For more information concerning NASSP services and/or programs, please call (703) 860-0200, or visit www.principals.org.