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ACT, Inc., 2012
In recent years educators and policymakers have set a goal that students graduate from high school ready for college and careers. However, as a nation we are far from achieving this goal, particularly for low-income and minority students. For example, in states where all eleventh-graders take the ACT[R], only 27 percent of low-income students in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Readiness, Minority Group Students, Career Readiness
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Schneider, Jean Suchsland – Roeper Review, 2006
This descriptive study investigated two areas: (a) perceived changes in gifted and talented (G/T) programming in Iowa from the time a state mandate was implemented to the time of the study, and (b) perceived effects of the mandate on G/T programming in Iowa. Perceptions of middle-level teachers of gifted and talented students (n = 111) were…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Gifted, Educational Change, Program Implementation