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Leslie Shumate Floyd – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Federal Head Start Program Performance Standards (HSPPS) were revised in 2016 to strengthen and improve the quality of all Head Start (HS) programs. The problem addressed in this basic qualitative study is that teachers in a local urban HS program in the southwestern region of Virginia have decreased levels of job satisfaction and cannot support…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, High School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Job Satisfaction
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Emenheiser, David E.; Weidenthal, Corinne; Avoke, Selete; Simon-Burroughs, Marlene – Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals, 2021
Promoting the Readiness of Minors in Supplemental Security Income (PROMISE), a study of 13,444 randomly assigned youth and their families, includes six model demonstration projects and a technical assistance center funded through the U.S. Department of Education and a national evaluation of the model demonstration projects funded through the…
Descriptors: Welfare Services, Federal Programs, Low Income Groups, Disabilities
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Plotner, Anthony J.; Simonsen, Monica L. – Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals, 2018
The purpose of this study was to examine 41 secondary transition-focused personnel preparation projects funded between 2001 and 2016. Specifically, this study examined the amount and characteristics of these projects through a systematic abstract review. In addition, authors explored key issues in federally funded transition-focused personnel…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Transitional Programs, Telephone Surveys, Interviews
Kraft, Matthew A.; Falken, Grace T. – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2020
In this paper, we explore how tutoring could become a permanent feature of the U.S. public education system. We outline a blueprint for taking tutoring to scale nationally and estimate its costs, while highlighting a range of design and implementation challenges. Our blueprint is centered on ten core principles and a federal architecture to…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Tutoring, Costs, Program Design
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Allen, Ann; Roberts, J. Kessa – Rural Educator, 2019
Employing concepts of place and space, we consider the implementation of Early College initiatives in two small school districts in Ohio, situated in very different regions of the state. One is a rural district near the foothills of Appalachia, and the other is a small town district on the shores of Lake Erie. The paper examines data collected…
Descriptors: College Preparation, College Bound Students, High School Students, Rural Schools
Choi, Jeong Hoon; McCart, Amy B.; Hicks, Tyler A.; Sailor, Wayne – Journal of Special Education, 2019
The present study investigated relationships among technical assistance, school leadership quality, and multitiered system of support (MTSS) implementation. The findings indicated technical assistance improved school leadership quality, and improved leadership significantly mediated the relationship between technical assistance and MTSS…
Descriptors: School Administration, Technical Assistance, Leadership Effectiveness, Equal Education
Susan M. Gates; Matthew D. Baird; Benjamin K. Master; Emilio R. Chavez-Herrerias – RAND Corporation, 2019
Research across the decades has confirmed that effective school leadership is associated with better outcomes for students and schools. A high-quality school leader affects dozens of teachers and hundreds or thousands of students. It is a pivotal role. From 2011 to 2016, The Wallace Foundation, through its Principal Pipeline Initiative (PPI),…
Descriptors: Principals, Career Development, Program Effectiveness, Academic Achievement
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Garver, Rachel – Educational Forum, 2017
This article examines school-level responses to subgroup accountability pressure through an ethnographic case study of a school cited for failing to make adequate yearly progress for student subgroups. Concerns about the calculations and measures used to derive the citation and reservations about acting on accountability data delegitimized the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Compliance (Legal), Data, Decision Making
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Lash, Cristina L.; Sanchez, Monika – Education and Urban Society, 2019
Nationwide, place-based initiatives aiming to improve school and community outcomes are in the midst of neighborhood demographic change. We explore this issue through a case study of the Mission Promise Neighborhood (MPN). We discuss how the social and educational context of MPN poses several challenges to implementing Promise Neighborhood…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Working Class, Advantaged, Whites
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Epps, Sylvia R.; Jackson, Russell H.; Olsen, Robert B.; Shivji, Azim; Roy, Radha – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2016
Launched in 1965, Upward Bound (UB) is one of the oldest and largest of the federal college access programs targeted to low-income students and those who would represent the first-generation of college completers in their families. Currently, UB serves more than 60,000 high school students at a cost of about $4,300 per youth and offers an array of…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Access to Education, Higher Education, Low Income Students
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Busch, Matthias; Morys, Nancy – Journal of Social Science Education, 2016
Purpose: This article focuses on recent developments in the domain of civic education in the French education system, the new programme on "Enseignement moral et civique" (EMC), and the debate about the relevance of the basic values of the Republic which came up after the terror attacks in January 2015. Method: The study is based on a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Educational Policy, Civics
Miller, Catherine M. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Achievement of adequate yearly progress (AYP) is crucial for all students due to the increased rigor of Common Core Standards and Keystone graduation requirements. Logically then, programs that can help students achieve AYP should be implemented to their fullest potential. This study investigated whether the Reading Apprenticeship (RA) framework…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Instruction, Academic Achievement, Educational Indicators
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National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2014
The Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) provides grants to support performance-based compensation systems for teachers and principals in high-need schools. The study measures the impact of pay-for-performance bonuses as part of a comprehensive compensation system within a large, multisite random assignment study design. The treatment schools were to…
Descriptors: Merit Pay, Incentives, Grants, Federal Aid
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Derrington, Mary Lynne – Education Leadership Review, 2013
This Southeastern state was awarded one of the first two Race to The Top (RTTT) grants the U. S. Department of Education funded. A key piece of the state's winning application was a legislative mandate to implement an intensive, quantitative, and accountability driven teacher evaluation system beginning with the 2011-2012 school year. The new law…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Administrator Attitudes, Educational Legislation, Federal Aid
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Max, Jeffrey; Constantine, Jill; Wellington, Alison; Hallgren, Kristin; Glazerman, Steven; Chiang, Hanley; Speroni, Cecilia – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2014
The Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) provides grants to support performance-based compensation systems for teachers and principals in high-need schools. The study measures the impact of pay-for-performance bonuses as part of a comprehensive compensation system within a large, multisite random assignment study design. The treatment schools were to…
Descriptors: Merit Pay, Incentives, Grants, Federal Aid
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