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Direct linkArnold, Karen D.; Lu, Elissa C.; Armstrong, Kelli J. – ASHE Higher Education Report, 2012
This monograph focuses on the main populations and topics in the college
readiness literature. The population of U.S. youth who are traditionally aged
high school and college students dominates research; for the most part, the authors concentrate on literature about this population. Within this broad parameter, the review is centrally concerned…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Higher Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged
Download full textUS Department of Education, 2007
"The Achiever" is a monthly publication for parents and community leaders. Each issue contains news and information about school improvement in the United States. Highlights of this issue include: (1) "No Child Left Behind": Key Focus in State of the Union; (2) A Shining Example: Using Mix of Strategies, Stanton Elementary…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Newsletters, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Ashby, Nicole, Ed. – US Department of Education, 2007
"The Achiever" is a monthly newsletter designed expressly for parents and community leaders. Each issue contains news and information about school improvement in the United States. Highlights of this issue include: (1) Fifth Anniversary for "No Child Left Behind"; (2) Empowering Parents: Response Soars for Supplemental…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, International Education, Parent Participation, Newsletters
Ashby, Nicole, Ed. – US Department of Education, 2007
"The Achiever" is a monthly newsletter designed expressly for parents and community leaders. Each issue contains news and information about and from public and private organizations about school improvement in the United States. Highlights of this issue include: (1) New Online Tool Simplifies Financial Aid Process; (2) Rigor in K-6:…
Descriptors: Science Achievement, Student Financial Aid, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Ashby, Nicole, Ed. – US Department of Education, 2007
"The Achiever" is a monthly publication designed expressly for parents and community leaders. Each issue contains news and information about school improvement in the United States. Highlights of this issue include: (1) Spellings Convenes National Summit on Higher Education; (2) Noble Street: Chicago Charter High School Creates a Culture…
Descriptors: Grants, Higher Education, Newsletters, Elementary Secondary Education
Trombley, William, Ed. – National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, 2006
The primary purpose of "National CrossTalk" is to stimulate informed discussion and debate of higher education issues. This issue contains the following articles: (1) Keeping Them in College: East Carolina University's Efforts to Improve Retention and Graduation Rates (Don Campbell); (2) The "Seamless System": Florida's Flurry…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Higher Education, Academic Persistence, School Holding Power
Ashby, Nicole, Ed. – US Department of Education, 2006
"The Achiever" is a monthly newsletter designed expressly for parents and community leaders. Each issue contains news and information about school improvement in the United States. The highlights of this issue include: (1) Report Finds U.S. Higher Education in Need of Change; (2) Meeting a Critical Need: Foreign Languages, Academic Rigor…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Finance, Newsletters, Educational Improvement
Ashby, Nicole, Ed. – US Department of Education
"The Achiever" is a monthly newsletter designed expressly for parents and community leaders. Each issue contains news and information about school improvement in the United States. Highlights of this issue include: (1) Proposed Budget Invests More Into NCLB, Neediest Students; (2) Making History: L.A. County School With Disadvantaged…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Newsletters, Federal Programs, Public Agencies
Parker, Laurence – Review of Research in Education, 2005
Passed by the U.S. Congress in the spring of 1965 as part of President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) was one of the most significant and expansive education policy initiatives ever undertaken by the federal government. The main component of the act, Title I, allocated significant resources to…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Change, Public Education
Page, Stephen, Ed.; Shaw, Danielle, Ed. – Laboratory for Student Success (LSS), The Mid-Atlantic Regional Educational Laboratory, 2004
Beginners in many disciplines learn that correlation never proves causation, but sometimes, even in public health, correlation, mistaken for causation, becomes the basis for policy and great expenditures of public and private money. "True experiments" with random assignment to experimental and control groups hold a special place in the…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Teaching Methods, Federal Legislation, Statistical Studies
Rohland, Mark, Ed. – Laboratory for Student Success (LSS), The Mid-Atlantic Regional Educational Laboratory, 2003
School-family partnerships (SFPs) have been the focus of research, policy, and practice efforts for several years. Increasing the interest in SFPs has been the finding that when schools and families cooperate closely, children benefit. The more supportive links there are between settings, the more potential there is for healthy development. Such…
Descriptors: Conferences, Politics of Education, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
Rohland, Mark, Ed. – Laboratory for Student Success (LSS), The Mid-Atlantic Regional Educational Laboratory, 2003
Work-based education (WBE), including traditional vocational education and other career-focused programs, was an important curricular component in American schools for most of the 20th century. The 1990s was a period of substantial change for work-based education (WBE). Spurred on by a concern about the international competitiveness of the…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Educational Change, Tech Prep, Education Work Relationship
