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Greg Frehner – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Public Act 100-0465 or the Evidence-Based Funding for Student Success Act was signed by Illinois Governor, Bruce Rauner, on August 31, 2017. According to the Illinois State Board of Education's Evidence-Based Funding webpage, "This law enacts evidence-based funding (EBF) and comprehensively changes the way that school districts receive the…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Rural Schools, Resource Allocation, Evidence Based Practice
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Mohammed, Shereeza; Walker, David A.; Conderman, Greg; Pasapia, John – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2016
The No Child Left Behind Act requires that educators at all grade levels use Scientifically Based Research (SBR) instructional practices. Researchers constructed a literature-based model to examine the predictive relationship between a state's comprehensiveness of planned implementation and its capacity to implement the plan. An approach comprised…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Reading Programs, Models, Program Implementation
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Hallett, Geneva; Strain, Phillip S.; Smith, Barbara J.; Barton, Erin E.; Steed, Elizabeth A.; Kranski, Tessa A. – Young Exceptional Children, 2019
The Pyramid Model for Supporting Social Emotional Competence in Infants and Young Children (Hemmeter, Fox, & Snyder, 2013), or the Pyramid Model, is a conceptual framework focused on systemic and sustained implementation of evidence-based practices (EBP) related to promoting social emotional competence and preventing challenging behaviors in…
Descriptors: Positive Behavior Supports, Evidence Based Practice, Models, Social Development
Elgart, Mark A. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2016
Organizational leaders from nearly every sector have been using continuous improvement models and improvement science for years to improve products, services, and processes. Though continuous improvement processes are not new in education, they are relatively new in the state policy arena. In a continuous improvement system, educators use data,…
Descriptors: State Standards, Accountability, Educational Improvement, Models
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McGill, Ryan J.; Styck, Kara M.; Palomares, Ronald S.; Hass, Michael R. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2016
As a result of the upcoming Federal reauthorization of the Individuals With Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA), practitioners and researchers have begun vigorously debating what constitutes evidence-based assessment for the identification of specific learning disability (SLD). This debate has resulted in strong support for a method that…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Disability Identification, Disabilities, Federal Legislation
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Preston, Angela I.; Wood, Charles L.; Stecker, Pamela M. – Preventing School Failure, 2016
Response to intervention (RTI) emerged from the 2004 reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, but the roots of RTI are found embedded within the history of the field of learning disabilities (LD) as well as other sources of influence. In what follows, we provide a brief history of LD and highlight the connection between…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Disabilities
Kotzmann, Jane – Oxford University Press, 2018
A human right to higher education was included in the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), which came into force in 1976. Yet the world has changed significantly since the ICESCR was drafted. State legislation and policies have generally followed a neoliberal trajectory, shifting the perception of higher…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Higher Education, Neoliberalism, State Policy
Daugherty, Lindsay; Herman, Rebecca; Unlu, Fatih – RAND Corporation, 2017
The reauthorization of the U.S. Elementary and Secondary Education Act, referred to as the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), emphasizes evidence-based initiatives while providing new flexibilities to states and districts with regard to the use of federal funds, including funds to promote effective school leadership. In response, state and…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Principals, Leadership Responsibility
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Harrington, Karen; Griffith, Catherine; Gray, Katharine; Greenspan, Scott – Professional Counselor, 2016
This article provides an overview of a grant project designed to create a district-wide elementary school counseling program with a strong data-based decision-making process. Project goals included building data literacy skills among school counselors and developing the infrastructure to efficiently collect important social-emotional indicators…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, School Counseling, Program Implementation, Evidence Based Practice
National Archives and Records Administration, 2015
The Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education adopts final requirements for the School Improvement Grants (SIG) program, authorized under section 1003(g) of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended (ESEA). These final requirements make changes to the current SIG program requirements and implement…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Grants