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Christopher Redding; Tuan D. Nguyen – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2025
We estimate the effects of Race to the Top (RTTT) on teacher qualifications, work environments, and job attitudes. Drawing on the Schools and Staffing Survey and the National Teacher and Principal Survey, we create a nationally representative data set of public school teachers from 1988 to 2018. We adopt an event study difference-in-differences…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Federal Aid, Federal Programs
Bowman, Nicholas A.; Kim, Sanga; Ingleby, Laura; Ford, David C.; Sibaouih, Christina – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2018
GEAR UP (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs) is a federal program designed to promote college access and success for students from low-income backgrounds. Although some literature has examined K-12 outcomes, little research has explored the extent to which GEAR UP achieves its intended postsecondary objectives. The…
Descriptors: Low Income, High School Students, Academic Persistence, School Holding Power
Shapiro, Anna; Weiland, Christina – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2019
There are unique challenges to estimating causal effects of preschool for students with special needs that have not received attention in the literature. We revisit the Head Start Impact Study (HSIS) to illustrate that when and how special needs is defined has implications for the internal validity of and interpretation of special needs subgroup…
Descriptors: Definitions, Special Education, Preschools, Preschool Children
Russell, Jennifer Lin; Meredith, Julie; Childs, Joshua; Stein, Mary Kay; Prine, Deanna Weber – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2015
This study sought to understand the opportunities and challenges associated with the implementation of state designed Race to the Top (RttT) funded reform networks. Drawing on a conceptual framework developed from the networked governance literature, we analyzed the 12 state RttT grantees' applications. Our analysis revealed that states designed…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Federal Programs, Educational Improvement, Networks
Zimmer, Ron; Henry, Gary T.; Kho, Adam – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2017
In recent years, the federal government has invested billions of dollars to reform chronically low-performing schools. To fulfill their federal Race to the Top grant agreement, Tennessee implemented three turnaround strategies that adhered to the federal restart and transformation models: (a) placed schools under the auspices of the Achievement…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, School Districts, Public Schools, Charter Schools
Rice, Jennifer King; Malen, Betty; Jackson, Cara; Hoyer, Kathleen Mulvaney – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2015
The effectiveness of educator incentive programs rests on the assumption that the potential rewards for participants will motivate them to behave in certain ways (e.g., choose certain jobs, expend greater effort, engage in capacity-building professional development). Some researchers have examined the impact of financial incentives on teacher…
Descriptors: Incentive Grants, Rewards, Teacher Motivation, Mixed Methods Research
Scott-Clayton, Judith – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2011
Since 1964, the Federal Work-Study (FWS) program has provided funds to subsidize the wages of student employees, but it has never been studied directly. I use an instrumental variables difference-in-difference framework with administrative data from West Virginia to identify causal effects, comparing eligible and ineligible students across…
Descriptors: Evidence, Academic Achievement, Quasiexperimental Design, Federal Programs
Gross, Betheny; Booker, T. Kevin; Goldhaber, Dan – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2009
Between the late 1980s and early 2000s, schools, districts, states, and the federal government devoted enormous resources to the implementation of Comprehensive School Reform (CSR) models. With more than 1.6 billion federal dollars distributed through the Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration (CSRD) project and its successor, the CSR project,…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Academic Achievement, Program Effectiveness, Federal Government
Spybrook, Jessaca; Raudenbush, Stephen W. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2009
This article examines the power analyses for the first wave of group-randomized trials funded by the Institute of Education Sciences. Specifically, it assesses the precision and technical accuracy of the studies. The authors identified the appropriate experimental design and estimated the minimum detectable standardized effect size (MDES) for each…
Descriptors: Research Design, Research Methodology, Effect Size, Correlation

Florio, David H. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1980
The purposes, structure, and component parts of the newly formed Department of Education (ED) organizations from which educational research programs will be administered are discussed. As the climate surrounding ED changes, opportunities to take advantage of the elevated status of research will be presented. (Author/RL)
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Educational Research, Federal Government, Federal Programs

Jung, Steven M.; Schubert, Jane G. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1983
Based on experiences of the American Institutes for Research in conducting evaluability assessment (EA), common problems include: finding client programs, balancing standardization and flexibility needs, satisfying two clients, maintaining schedules, and demise of client programs. Their successes include: surmounting bureaucratic complications,…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Federal Programs, Formative Evaluation

Miller, Harry L. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1981
Frederick Wirt's article, "Neoconservatism and National School Policy," is examined, particularly his interpretation and selection of the data cited in his article. (Author/GK)
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Programs, Political Attitudes

Senesh, Lawrence – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1981
The forces which stimulated the social science curriculum reform movement to both its accomplishments and its decline are observed and reported. (Author/GK)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education

Gideonse, Hendrik D. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1981
In his critical response to TM 506 654, the author points to three major strengths of the aforementioned. These include: (1) breadth of perspective; (2) significance of federal presence; and (3) recommendations concerning the future role of the federal government in education. Also discussed are areas deemed questionable by the author. (GK)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Government

Turnbull, Brenda J. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1981
This paper assesses the rationale for legislated program consolidation, summarizing problems with the current structure of categorical programs and arguments for reform through consolidation, reviewing past consolidation proposals, discussing the likely effects of such proposals, analyzing the state, local, and federal responses that can be…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Coordination, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid