SREB Goals for Education:  Challenge to Lead Adopted in 2002, SREB’s 12 Challenge to Lead Goals for Education set a powerful agenda for our region: SREB states can lead the nation in educational progress. These goals challenge schools, colleges and universities to achieve excellence. They challenge state leaders and policy-makers to provide the support needed to succeed. And they demand accountability for results. SREB measures and reports on progress toward each goal. We monitor the trends and indicators that tell us if our 16 member states are on track, and we equip state government and education leaders with the information they need to work cooperatively toward long-term solutions. For details, see SREB’s reports on specific goals, progress reports for each state, presentations to legislators and other information below, or click on Publications.

 SREB Goals for Education: Challenge to Lead (PDF)

SREB's Action Agenda: From Goals to Results … Making It Happen

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2008 Goals for Education State Reports: What progress has your state made? How is your state doing?

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Progress Reports

• Set for Success: Improving Reading and Mathematics Achievement in the Early Grades
   
• Ready to Start: Ensuring High-Quality Prekindergarten in SREB States
   
• Schools Need Good Leaders Now: State Progress in Creating a Learning-Centered School Leadership System
   
• Clearing Paths to College Degrees: Transfer Policies in SREB States
   
• The Changing Roles of Statewide High School Exams
   
• Improving ACT and SAT Scores: Making Progress, Facing Challenges
   
• Getting State Standards Right in the Early and Middle Grades
   
• 2006 Goals for Education State Reports: What progress has your state made? How is your state doing?
   
• Increasing Accountability for Teacher Preparation Programs
   
• SREB States Take Action to Support Beginning Teachers
  
  
• From Goals to Results: Improving Education System Accountability
   
• Holding Colleges and Universities Accountable for Meeting State Needs
   
• Progress in Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate in SREB States
   
• Getting Students Ready for College and Careers
   
• Getting Serious About High School Graduation
   
• Focusing on Student Performance Through Accountability
   
• Investing Wisely in Adult Learning is Key to State Prosperity
   
• Building a Foundation for Success by Getting Every Child Ready for School
   
• Creating College Opportunity for All: Prepared Students and Affordable Colleges

• Getting the Mission Right in the Middle Grades

• Progress Being Made in Getting a Quality Leader in Every School

• Mastering Reading and Mathematics in the Early Grades

• Resolve and Resources to Get a Qualified Teacher in Every Classroom

• Getting High School Graduation Test Policies Right in SREB States

• Targeting the Adult Learning Challenge in SREB States

Reports

• Goals Brochure

• List of goals and links to SREB reports and the latest data

• Interactive goals report with links to SREB reports and the latest data (PDF)
   
• Performance Pay for Teachers: What Works and What Doesn't? (PDF)

Presentations (PowerPoint)

• Goals presentation to the Tennessee Senate and House Education Committees (January 2004)

• Goals presentation to the Georgia Senate Education Committee (January 2004)

• Goals presentation to the SREB Board (June 2003)

• Goals presentation to the Tennessee House and Senate Education Committees (February 2003)

• Goals presentation to the Alabama Permanent Joint Legislative Committee on Finances and Budgets  (February 2003)

• Goals presentation to Maryland House of Delegates Ways and Means and Appropriations Committees (February 2003)

• Goals presentation to Louisiana Leadership Forum (January 2003)

 

Op/ed articles

• SREB goals: West Virginia has a lot to be proud of, but we're not yet where we want to be (By Senator Lloyd Jackson)

• South must keep improving its education efforts (By Ronald R. Ingle)

• SREB goals: South Carolina has accomplished a lot in education, but the hard work is not over yet (By Senator Nikki G. Setzler)