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Ira David Socol; Pamela R. Moran – Phi Delta Kappan, 2024
Transforming schools through mastery learning may solve education's existential crisis, offering today's learners the relevance and individualization they need while returning to the most ancient form of assessment, proving that learning has occurred. Mastery learning requires significant change to all the norms and practices of school, altering…
Descriptors: Mastery Learning, Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Networks
California Community Colleges, Chancellor's Office, 2025
The 2024 Institutional Effectiveness Partnership Initiative (IEPI) Legislative Report provides a comprehensive analysis of California's efforts to improve student success, institutional effectiveness, and equity across its 116 community colleges. Covering activities from July 1, 2023, to June 30, 2024, this report highlights key findings,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, School Effectiveness, Equal Education, Technical Assistance
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Jen Eklund; Kelsie Fowler; Caroline Kiehle; Lori Henrickson; Deb L. Morrison – Connected Science Learning, 2024
A system of climate learning includes students, educators, administrators, educational leaders, community members, and others across different contexts and from diverse lived experiences. As people begin to foster climate learning within these systems, the work of drawing people together in this work can seem daunting. However, the lessons from…
Descriptors: Climate, Science Instruction, Environmental Education, Communities of Practice
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Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg; Mary Ellen Daneels – State Education Standard, 2025
Over the past decade, Illinois has emerged as a national exemplar of how state policy can drive systemic change in civics education. The Illinois Civic Mission Coalition, a pan-ideological alliance of educators, policymakers, and civic organizations, has shaped the state's civics education vision. The coalition built a scalable infrastructure of…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Citizen Participation, Democracy, State Programs
Jim Blew – Program on Education Policy and Governance, 2025
By the time Donald J. Trump was running for president in 2024, he had landed on a clear vision for the federal government's role in education. In short, he had concluded that the federal government's power over education should be relinquished to states, local communities, and, most importantly, families. Early into his second term, Trump has…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Governance, Presidents, Educational Change
Jesse Strong – ProQuest LLC, 2023
For many years schools located within concentrated areas of poverty in an urban school county in south Florida have experienced alarmingly high teacher turnover rates and alarmingly low academic performance scores. In 2015, in a lauded expose printed by the "Tampa Bay Times," five schools, all of which would go on to become part of the…
Descriptors: Poverty Areas, Poverty, Urban Schools, Faculty Mobility
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Lam D. Pham; Gage F. Matthews; Timothy A. Drake – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2025
Although multiple studies have examined the impact of school turnaround, less is known about reforms under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). To advance this literature, we examine North Carolina's Restart (NCR) model. NCR aligns with ESSA by giving school leaders increased flexibility. Also, NCR differs from previous turnaround models by…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, School Turnaround
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Ashley Woo; Rebecca Herman; Emma B. Kassan; Srikant Kumar Sahoo; Phoebe Rose Levine – RAND Corporation, 2025
School improvement is complex and difficult, especially in comprehensive support and improvement (CSI) schools, which concurrently struggle with multiple challenges. To guide state education agencies (SEAs) in supporting schools, this report summarizes the resources that SEAs have identified and developed, insights from national technical…
Descriptors: State Agencies, State Aid, School Support, Educational Improvement
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Ashley Woo; Rebecca Herman; Emma B. Kassan; Srikant Kumar Sahoo; Phoebe Rose Levine – RAND Corporation, 2025
School improvement is complex and difficult, especially in comprehensive support and improvement (CSI) schools, which concurrently struggle with multiple challenges. To guide state education agencies (SEAs) in supporting schools, this annex provides (1) the resources that SEAs have identified and developed to support the identification and…
Descriptors: State Agencies, School Support, Educational Improvement, School Turnaround
Laurie Gagnon – Aurora Institute, 2025
In 2020, Kentucky embarked on a journey to transform teaching and learning in the state through its "United We Learn" initiative. As a result of that work, Kentucky learning communities are making significant strides toward innovative deeper learning practices. In Aurora Institute's glossary, the term "deeper learning"…
Descriptors: State Programs, Educational Change, Educational Practices, Thinking Skills
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Evan E. Dean; Mayumi Hagiwara; Jennifer Jones; Kami Gallus; Karrie A. Shogren – Inclusion, 2022
This article describes a pilot project focused on creating opportunities for self-determination to enhance the community participation outcomes of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities using the Self-Determined Learning Model of Instruction (SDLMI). The pilot project grew out of a partnership between researchers at a university…
Descriptors: Self Determination, Adults, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities
Erin E. Senkowski – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The identification of students with specific learning disabilities has evolved since the reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEIA) in 2004. This reauthorization gave state agencies parameters that disallowed using the severe discrepancy model for identification as a stand-alone method. In response to…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Identification, State Departments of Education, Educational Legislation
Ann Partee; Amanda Williford; Jason Downer; Jenna Conway; Erin Carroll – Grantee Submission, 2023
This study describes the implementation and findings from a consultation process designed to enhance the professional development (PD) offered to teachers working in Virginia's state-funded preschool program. A PD Rubric was developed to translate research on effective PD (i.e., PD practices linked to positive changes in teacher practice and/or…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Preschool Education, Faculty Development, State Aid
Colorado Department of Higher Education, 2022
This report follows the high school graduating class of 2020 into their first year of college--high school seniors when the pandemic began. The initial impact of the pandemic on college-going pathways and outcomes is a focal point. While the data is concerning, there are successes: (1) Dual enrollment participation continues to increase; (2) More…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Higher Education, College Freshmen, Grade Point Average
Betty A. Rosa, Contributor; Jeffrey Matteson, Contributor; Jason Harmon, Contributor; William Murphy, Contributor; Angelique Johnson-Dingle, Contributor; Ceylane Meyers-Ruff, Contributor; Michael Mastroianni, Contributor; David Hamilton, Contributor; Daniel Morton-Bentley, Contributor; Christina Coughlin, Contributor; Jennifer Trowbridge, Contributor; Lauren Moore, Contributor; J. P. O’Hare, Contributor; Laura Glass, Contributor; Anne Fiscarelli, Contributor; David Frank, Contributor; Michael St. John, Contributor – New York State Education Department, 2025
The New York State Education Department's Annual Report contains contributions from various program offices discussing initiatives for the 2024-2025 school year: (1) Advancing Equity and Excellence: A Transformative Year for the Office of Education Policy; (2) Elevating Equity and Excellence: A Year of Progress and Promise in Instructional…
Descriptors: State Departments of Education, Departments, State Programs, Educational Policy