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Martha Buell; Stephanie Kuntz – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
Decades of research has documented the negative effects of physical punishment, including spanking (Heilmann et al., 2021). Since 1998, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has endorsed the use of time out from positive reinforcement (TO) as an alternative to corporal punishment (Sege et al., 2018). Despite urging at the federal level…
Descriptors: Child Care, Certification, Punishment, Positive Reinforcement
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Jach, Elizabeth A.; Carvajal, Cynthia N. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2023
Despite the lack of comprehensive federal legislation for undocumented students, activists catalyzed the passage of the New York State Dream Act in 2019. Yet, numerous barriers remain for undocumented students pursuing higher education. We provide a case example of UndocuAlly Trainings facilitated at a campus center in the State University of New…
Descriptors: Undocumented Immigrants, Activism, State Legislation, Barriers
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Liu, Jessica; Reynolds, Matthew J.; Hartman, Lester; Gottlieb, Mark; Coogan, Jacqueline M.; Winickoff, Jonathan P. – Journal of School Health, 2022
Background: Despite recent tobacco control efforts, adolescent vaping remains an epidemic in the United States. The purpose of our study was to understand high school student vaping behaviors using the perceptions of Massachusetts school personnel during the critical window from when the Massachusetts statewide flavor ban legislation was passed in…
Descriptors: High School Students, Smoking, Prevention, State Legislation
W. Christopher Brandt; Nathan Dadey; Carla Evans – National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment, 2024
Recent years have produced a surge in interest in improving state assessment programs. Many states are designing new assessments. Much of this innovation is aimed at addressing longstanding areas of unhappiness with typical domain-sampled, end-of-year state assessments: States want to streamline assessment activities, enhance the instructional…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Achievement Tests, Educational Testing, State Standards
Mark Duffy; Kri Burkander – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
Drawing on qualitative data collected in a sample of colleges as part of a larger study on the implementation and impact of Assembly Bill 705 in California, this paper explores the rollout of corequisite reforms, focusing on the use of embedded tutors in introductory math and English courses as a strategy to meet to the needs of students. This…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, Tutoring, Mathematics Instruction
Mark Duffy; Kri Burkander – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
Drawing on qualitative data collected in a sample of colleges as part of a larger study on the implementation and impact of Assembly Bill 705 in California, this paper explores the rollout of corequisite reforms, focusing on the use of embedded tutors in introductory math and English courses as a strategy to meet to the needs of students. This…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community College Students, Tutoring, Mathematics Instruction
Anna Granias; Anne Li – Wilder Research, 2025
In spring 2024, the Multicounty Multitype Library Systems, supported by State Library Services, conducted a census of K-12 public and charter schools in Minnesota to learn about the status of school libraries. A total of 1,528 out of 1,777 eligible schools completed the census. The findings can help legislators, school staff, librarians, and…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Public Schools, Charter Schools, Educational Legislation
Randle-Filer, Shyulanda Y. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This research study was to obtain, through the application of a qualitative narrative design of open-ended questions, the perceptions of school administrators regarding the effectiveness of the 2015 modified legislated implementation of House Bill 2398 and Texas Truancy Prevention Measures programs (TTPM). The TTPM policies and procedures are…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Administrator Attitudes, Program Effectiveness, Truancy
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Craigie, Terry-Ann – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2022
In Rhode Island, out-of-school suspensions were excessively and disproportionately used to penalize low-level infractions. To address this problem, the Rhode Island General Assembly passed legislation, effective May 2012, prohibiting out-of-school suspensions for attendance-specific infractions. Four years later, the Assembly passed additional…
Descriptors: Suspension, Student Behavior, Discipline, State Legislation
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Johnson, Natasha N.; Johnson, Thaddeus L. – Cogent Education, 2023
Using the state of Georgia as a backdrop, this paper highlights the current state of the GFSA (Gun-Free Schools Act) in the United States of America, initially enacted in 1994, 30 years later. The progress of school-based ZTPs (Zero Tolerance Policies) in practice shows that progress remains slow a quarter of a century later. In response, this…
Descriptors: Zero Tolerance Policy, School Policy, Weapons, Violence
Jianjun Wang – Online Submission, 2024
A 50-cent-per-pack tax on cigarettes and other tobacco products has been endorsed by California voters to fund early childhood services under Proposition 10, California Children and Families First Act of 1998. In compliance with the legislative requirement of Result-Based Accountability (RBA) on revenue spending, this report delineates evaluation…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Child Health, Well Being, Early Childhood Education
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Black, Shaun M.; Owens, Michael A.; Randall, E. Vance; Boxley, Brod; White, Willie L., II – Voices of Reform, 2022
This mixed-methods case study examines the emergency financial management legislation enacted in Michigan from 2009 to 2018 as an education policy for governance reform in three local school districts: Detroit, Highland Park, and Muskegon Heights. From its inception, the emergency financial manager law was an intervention strategy for local…
Descriptors: Governance, Educational Change, Educational Finance, Emergency Programs
Wayne Stephenson – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this study was to determine the impacts of a specific accelerated learning program on STAAR Algebra I End of Course exam scores for students who had previously failed the exam. The accelerated learning program, titled STAAR Acceleration, was intended to help students who had experienced school closures because of COVID-19 improve…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Achievement Tests, Algebra, Mathematics Achievement
Andrea Lisa Lee – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Although nearly half of community college students require some type of remediation, less than one-third of the students who start in developmental education graduate within eight years (Park, Tandberg, Hu, & Hankerson, 2016). As such, there is great uncertainty regarding the effectiveness of developmental education (Ari et al., 2016; Bailey…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Elective Courses, Remedial Instruction, Program Effectiveness
Wang, Jianjun – Online Submission, 2023
California voters decided to collect a 50 cent-per-pack tax on cigarette and other tobacco products and use the money to fund early childhood services under Proposition 10, California Children and Families First Act of 1998. In compliance to the legislative requirement of Result-Based Accountability (RBA) on the revenue spending, this report…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Taxes, Early Childhood Education, State Legislation
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