. Select one of the following policy issues and describe the current status of your state’s policy regarding this issue: early childhood education, high school graduation rates, merit pay for...

. Select one of the following policy issues and describe the current status of your state’s policy regarding this issue: early childhood education, high school graduation rates, merit pay for teachers, improving teacher quality, or value-added evaluation. Be sure to consider not only formal laws but also funding levels and patterns of government inaction.