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Ten Elements For Building Your Local Action Plan

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Your local action plan will be your community's road map for moving toward the National Education Goals or your own goals, and for moving all children toward high standards. In developing this plan, your community will want to ask:
"Where are we today, in relation to each National Education Goal or each of our own goals? Where do we want to be by the year 2000? How will we get there? And how will we know that we're making good progress along the way?"
Your community and schools will want to consider making improvements in at least ten areas: We've learned this from more than a decade of reform and research: These ten elements are essential to any truly comprehensive school improvement effort. That's why the GOALS 2000: Educate America Act calls for improvements in each.

What follows is a close look at each of the elements. It's a series of questions your community and schools can use to think about ways you might improve learning for your schools and families. Asking and answering those questions -- together, as a community and school -- can pave the way to developing your own comprehensive plans for action. As you read through the questions, you'll notice that similar questions sometimes appear under more than one elements. Questions overlap because the elements overlap. They must, if everything is to work together as a system.

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