The Education Commission of the States today released their “12 for 2012” report.

It’s a list of twelve education policy areas that the commission says are “ripe for action” by state leaders, school districts and legislators in 2012.  

Here’s the list:

1. Pre-K: Expanding the focus to P-3
2. K-12 finance: Creating and maintaining efficiency and financial accountability without lowering expectations
3. Blended learning
4. Common Core State Standards: From talking to doing
5. Developing civic engagement in PK-12: State action in the absence of federal funding
6. Teaching quality: Fasten your seatbelts!
7. Rural: Enhancing the potential of education in rural America
8. Data: Access to what teachers and leaders need to improve student outcomes (and the skills to use it)
9. Individualized instruction: Faster. Cheaper. Smarter.
10. Performance funding: Building a model without a blueprint?
11. Remedial education
12. Credentials of value: Some are better than others

What do you think? Do these policy areas match what you’re experiencing in your school and community?

Forty-nine states – including Oregon – are part of the commission, a non-profit research organization created to help states learn from one another and exchange new ideas.

Check out the ECS full report to learn more about these policy areas.