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Jennifer M. Pallone – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Parent engagement in the transition planning process for students with IEPs is an essential indicator for positive post-school outcomes for students with disabilities graduating from high school. Barriers to parent participation include lack of communication, trust, and knowledge of the process in which they are participating. Educators must seek…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Cooperative Planning, Transitional Programs, Individualized Education Programs
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DeRosa, Donald; Franzblau, Carl; Phillips, Constance; Romney, Carla – Journal of STEM Outreach, 2020
Boston University's (BU) CityLab program was created in 1991 as a partnership between faculty members of BU's School of Medicine and School of Education in response to the first call for proposals under the Science Education Partnership Awards initiative of the National Institutes of Health. CityLab's founders recognized the need for CityLab, a…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Biotechnology, Outreach Programs, Mobile Classrooms
Swail, Watson Scott – Educational Policy Institute, 2019
In 2013, the Arizona State University (ASU) Preparatory Academy (ASU Prep) was awarded an Investing in Innovation (i3) Grant through the U.S. Department of Education. The district applied with an ambitious grant designed to innovate programming for a total of six schools: two elementary (one Kindergarten through grade 5; one Kindergarten through…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education, Grants, Program Effectiveness
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Caldas, Stephen J.; Gómez, Diane W.; Ferrara, JoAnne – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2019
This article reports the effects of attending an elementary full-service community school (FSCS) on a variety of student academic outcomes in high school. The focal FSCS, Key Elementary, serves students in grades K-5 in a diverse southeastern New York State (NYS) school district. The academic performance of students, born between 1991 and 1996,…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Community Schools, Academic Achievement, Program Effectiveness
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Gillian-Daniel, Donald L.; Kraemer, Sara B. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2015
Disparities in academic achievement between students who are under-represented minorities, the first in their families to go to college, and/or low income and their more privileged peers affects students from kindergarten through college. Inequities throughout their education, as well as other causes affect the ability of high school graduates to…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Achievement Gap, Intervention, Disproportionate Representation
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McCormick, Jennifer; Hafner, Anne L.; Saint Germain, Michelle – Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2013
The study aimed to examine teachers' and students' views on the impact of the Expository Reading and Writing Course (ERWC) on students' college readiness and on teaching practices. Literature in the areas of college readiness, critiques of the English curriculum at the secondary level, and a review of research on the effects of ERWC are…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Expository Writing, Writing Instruction