Produced in collaboration with the Pew Charitable Trusts, Education Week's fifth annual 50-state report card on public education finds that "states need to strike a better balance among academic standards, testing and the tools students and schools need to succeed." At the site, users will find the full text of this detailed report, including an executive summary, an examination of issues and...

This feature to the ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation (ERIC/AE) (reviewed in the September 3, 1999 Scout Report) allows users to bypass the traditional six-to-nine-month wait for abstracts appearing in ERIC's Resources in Education or the Current Index to Journals in Education. Updated once a week, the database contains very current abstracts of papers on "assessment, evaluation,...