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Robert F. Hidalgo – ProQuest LLC, 2024
With the growth of dual enrollment in high schools, there is an opportunity to augment and enhance college acceleration opportunities for historically underrepresented students seeking post-secondary matriculation. In 2016, California enacted progressive legislation through Assembly Bill 288, which specifically identified the need to increase…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, Acceleration (Education), Disproportionate Representation, College Readiness
Castagneto, Ellen J. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This qualitative case study examined a single phenomenon that of a decade of public school reform efforts via legislated takeover in an urban poor minority school district, 1999-2009. The Harrisburg School District (HSD) is situated within the Capitol City of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and educates one of the highest rates of poverty and…
Descriptors: School Districts, Educational Change, Qualitative Research, Case Studies
Wozniak, Carl – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Administrator perspectives regarding current and potential increased participation in post-secondary educational opportunities by Michigan high school students were explored in this descriptive quantitative study. Targeted concerns included current institutional levels of involvement, personal knowledge concerning program rules and regulations,…
Descriptors: Funding Formulas, High Schools, Advanced Placement, Eligibility
Kauerz, Kristie Anne – ProQuest LLC, 2009
State-level policy attention to young children's early learning opportunities burgeons; a sense of urgency exists to identify reform agendas that are both effective and sustainable. "P-3" often is used as the term for the first level of a seamless P-20 system that stretches from early childhood through post-secondary education. While it…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Constructivism (Learning), Delphi Technique, Educational Change
Domier, Paddy Sertich – ProQuest LLC, 2009
With decreasing enrollment, decreasing funding for public school education, changes in family and societal needs, and the mandates of the No Child Left Behind Act, policymakers and school leaders are wrestling with reforms to the school calendar and instructional time spent in the classroom, with the goal of increasing student achievement.…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Statistical Analysis, Block Scheduling, Academic Achievement
Udongo, Betty Pacutho – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study analyzes the impact of armed conflicts on the development of education policy and particularly science education program in Uganda. Since independence from the British colonial rule, Uganda has experienced a series of armed conflicts, with the most devastating being the 21 years of conflict in Northern Uganda. The research study was…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Needs, School Security, Conflict