"Why?" Adding the covariates did not change results for the policy attributes, so we report results of the full model. Teacher policies need to target basic ICT literacy skills, ICT use in pedagogical settings, and discipline-specific uses. New Jersey, Colorado and District of Columbia public schools, among others, administer councils or advisory boards composed of teachers with demonstrated records of excellence to provide regular input into policy decisions. Education Policy | Education Policy & Social Analysis | Teachers According to the National Council of Teachers of English, between 2007 and 2014, public schools lost 250,000 employees while gaining 800,000 students. The mean coverage score is always greater than 3, ranging from 3.07 for secondary math teachers in Kentucky to 3.59 for secondary ELA teachers in Texas. Research also shows that when students have access to healthy lunches, they perform better in school. That is, we are examining whether teachers who report higher specificity, consistency, authority, power and stability in their policy environments are more likely to cover the content emphasized in their states standards. Graduate students focus on a policy area relevant to their interests. The framework posits that five attributes are related to successful policy implementation: Table 1 shows the distribution of the attributes among all teachers across the three states. In response to the great wave of Roman Catholic immigration beginning in the 1840s, public schooling was seen as a way of integrating children of immigrants, and counteracting the presumed bad influence of immigrant parents. For an early description of the policy attributes theory see Porter, A., Floden, R., Freeman, D., Schmidt, W., & Schwille, J. In 1917 the Smith-Hughes Act and the 1946 George-Barden Act focused federal involvement on agricultural, industrial and home economics training for high school students. Teacher Policy Research | Center for Education Policy Analysis