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Megan Bennett; Lorén Cox – Aspen Institute, 2024
The U.S. education system is facing severe challenges, including student learning loss, declining academic performance, a youth mental health crisis, and increasing absenteeism. Yet these challenges also provide a catalyst for transformational change. But a new paradigm for education cannot be done without the support for transformative school…
Descriptors: Principals, School Administration, Administrator Role, Change Agents
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Olson, Lynn – Learning Professional, 2023
Continuous improvement methods, widely used in fields such as medicine, can help educators identify and try out adjustments in practice, known as "change ideas," which contribute to better outcomes and more equitable systems for students. Since 2018, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has invested in 24 organizations across the…
Descriptors: Networks, Educational Improvement, Educational Change, Educational Cooperation
Fisk, Selena – Solution Tree, 2021
Data--done right--has the power to put schools on the path to true change. Rely on this research-backed resource to help you kickstart, implement, and sustain data-informed school-wide transformation. There are many ways to use student data, and the author's 10 steps offer practical, clear methods for establishing a data team, collecting relevant…
Descriptors: Data Use, Educational Change, Data Collection, Data Analysis
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Horner, Robert H. – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2020
The policy decisions of state, district and school educators affect the extent to which students have access to high-quality practices. This is especially relevant for students with disabilities and their families. This article summarizes a presentation made at the 2019 AAIDD conference and proposes an operational role for policy makers. Two…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Practices, Educational Change, Students with Disabilities
Gouëdard, Pierre – OECD Publishing, 2021
Across OECD countries, the increasing demand for evidence-based policy making has further led governments to design policies jointly with clear measurable objectives, and to define relevant indicators to monitor their achievement. This paper discusses the importance of such indicators in supporting the implementation of education policies.…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Program Implementation, Educational Policy, Policy Formation
Education Commission of the States, 2020
Postsecondary institutions and systems across the nation have demonstrated remarkable progress since the first "Core Principles for Transforming Remediation Within a Comprehensive Student Success Strategy" was published in 2015 (see ED561279). Building on this progress, the Summary Details Education Commission of the States (ECS) has…
Descriptors: Developmental Studies Programs, Remedial Programs, Educational Change, Change Strategies
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Dolan, Erin L.; Borrero, Michelle; Callis-Duehl, Kristine; Chen Musgrove, Miranda M.; de Lima, Joelyn; Ero-Tolliver, Isi; Gerhart, Laci M.; Goodwin, Emma C.; Hamilton, Lindsey R.; Henry, Meredith A.; Herrera, Jose; Huot, Bethany; Kiser, Stacey; Ko, Melissa E.; Kravec, Marcy E.; Lee, Mark; Limeri, Lisa B.; Peffer, Melanie E.; Pires, Debra; Ramirez Lugo, Juan S.; Sharp, Starlette M.; Suarez, Nicole A. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2020
The 2019 Undergraduate Biology Education Research Gordon Research Conference (UBER GRC), titled "Achieving Widespread Improvement in Undergraduate Education," brought together a diverse group of researchers and practitioners working to identify, promote, and understand widespread adoption of evidence-based teaching, learning, and success…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, College Science, Biology, Evidence Based Practice
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Piety, Philip J. – Review of Research in Education, 2019
This chapter reviews actionable data use--both as an umbrella term and as a specific concept--developed in three different traditions that data/information can inform and guide P-20 educational practice toward better outcomes. The literatures reviewed are known as data-driven decision making (DDDM), education data mining (EDM), and learning…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Data Use, Outcomes of Education, Learning Analytics
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Jerome De Lisle; Rhoda Mohammed; Rinnelle Lee-Piggott – Journal of Educational Administration, 2014
Purpose: Although high-quality comparative data from international assessments are now more widely available, to what extent is that data being used to trigger, inform, and direct educational change in non-Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) countries? The purpose of this paper is to develop a theoretical framework to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Educational Change, Data Use