Achieving Excellence:
Education Reform in North Carolina and Texas

Published by the A+ Education Foundation

Achievement Goal: Number One in the South and in the Nation

In a quest to be number one in the nation, North Carolina and Texas invested in comprehensive accountability systems, initiatives to improve teaching and learning, and measures to ensure sustainability.

To move Alabama toward making our schools among the best in the South the state can, fortunately, build on our first steps by learning from the advances made in neighboring states. North Carolina and Texas are now national leaders in education reform, having demonstrated long-term, consistent improvement in student achievement.

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