Education Commission of the States

Carri Anne Schneider

Education Commission of the States (ECS) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, interstate organization composed of forty-nine states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, and the Virgin Islands. Its primary purpose is to improve public education by researching, gathering, and disseminating information to inform educational policy makers and leaders across the United States. Now in its fourth decade of service to American public education, ECS supports the diverse needs of numerous stakeholders. In his 1964 book titled Shaping Educational Policy, former Harvard University president, James Bryant Conant, called for a national educational policy partnership among the states. Early The ...

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