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Eynon, Bret; Bass, Randall; Iuzzini, Jonathan; Gambino, Laura M. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2022
While research has generated abundant insight into effective professional learning methods, the field continues to suffer from a lack of systemic approaches. In response, a group of national professional learning leaders recently developed a framework that links proven professional learning methods to the strategic priorities of higher education…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Higher Education, Evidence Based Practice, College Students
Love, Ivy; Palmer, Iris – New America, 2020
As additional states embark on the process of implementing four-year degrees at community colleges, they can learn from others' experience for help navigating the legislative, regulatory, and program approval processes. This brief uses examples from states currently offering bachelor's degrees at their community colleges to provide guidance for…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Bachelors Degrees, State Policy, Educational Policy
Book, Patricia A. – Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, 2014
The perceived value of postsecondary education to economic competitiveness and individual success is driving innovation in higher education. Competency-based education (CBE) is the latest disruption that seeks to respond to the growing sense of national urgency to boost education attainment. The target audience generally includes those adult…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Higher Education, Models, Courses
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King, M. Bruce; Bouchard, Kate – Journal of Educational Administration, 2011
Purpose: Reformers, policymakers, and researchers have given considerable attention to organizational capacity in schools, especially in those schools that perpetuate or exacerbate achievement gaps among diverse student groups and reproduce social inequalities. There is an emerging consensus about key dimensions of school capacity and how they can…
Descriptors: School Administration, Achievement Gap, Human Resources, Ability
Miller, Susan – Council of Chief State School Officers, 2010
In late 1999, philanthropist Susie Buffett wanted to make the smartest possible investment to improve public education in her hometown of Omaha, Nebraska. She and her then-foundation president, Dan Pedersen, spoke with Superintendent John Mackiel regarding how he would choose to use private funds to enhance opportunities for Omaha's 46,000…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Private Sector, Program Development, Neighborhoods
Watson, John; Gemin, Butch – International Association for K-12 Online Learning, 2009
In at least 44 states across the country, students are logging in to learn at all times of the day and night--accessing courses they might otherwise be unable to take, interacting with students they might otherwise never know, and working with highly qualified teachers they otherwise could not access. In these and countless other ways, online…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Change, Barriers, Policy Analysis
Baez, Tony – 1986
The community college concept was heatedly debated in Wisconsin from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s. A number of study groups and governmental bodies endorsed the creation of community colleges. Although most states embraced the concept of the community college, however, Wisconsin's debate over whether to establish a statewide community college…
Descriptors: College Programs, Community Colleges, Educational Change, Educational History
Reisner, Elizabeth R.; And Others – 1994
In 1992, the U.S. Department of Labor and Council of Chief State School Officers awarded grants for the development of statewide systems to enhance school-to-work transition (SWT) through youth apprenticeship in eight states: California, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Oregon, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. In June 1993, the programs were…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Articulation (Education), Demonstration Programs, Education Work Relationship
Barrineau, Irene T., Ed. – Association for Continuing Higher Education, 2003
This document presents the proceedings of the 2003 annual meeting of the Association for Continuing Higher Education (ACHE). These proceedings record the 65th Annual Meeting of ACHE held in Charlottesville, Virginia. President Allen Varner's theme for this annual meeting was, "Continuing Education in the Era of Quantum Change." The theme…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Adults, Older Adults, Higher Education
Baldus, Lorayne – 1997
This report describes phase VI of the Equity Staff Development project, an ongoing project to achieve equity and diversity at Wisconsin technical colleges by creating an institutional climate supporting achievement by all students. Among the project's major activities and outcomes are the following: the existing train-the-trainer format of peer…
Descriptors: Action Research, Attitude Change, Comparative Analysis, Diversity (Student)