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Sagarra, Marti; Mar-Molinero, Cecilio; Rodríguez-Regordosa, Herberto – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2015
State support in higher education (HE) is often justified on the grounds that HE is important for the development of the country. However, little analysis is normally done in order to assess the impact of education quality initiatives. The Mexican government has been engaging in a policy of HE quality improvement that can be traced to 1989. In…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Success, Higher Education, Program Effectiveness
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Howard, Keith A.; Scott, Allison; Romero, Martin; Saddler, Derrick – Journal of Urban Mathematics Education, 2015
In this article, the authors use the High School Longitudinal Study 2009 (HSLS:09) national database to analyze the relationships between algebra failure, subsequent performance, motivation, and college readiness. Students who failed eighth-grade Algebra I did not differ significantly in mathematics proficiency from those who passed lower-level…
Descriptors: Success, Failure, Algebra, Educational Policy
Alfaro, Moises; Jones, Don; Holland, Glenda; Mundy, Marie-Anne – Journal of Case Studies in Education, 2012
Recent national and state standards of accountability have focused on increasing student performance and achievement as well as teacher quality. Included in this challenge is the issue of teacher compensation and how it has evolved with the efforts of providing quality instruction in order to improve the performance of students. Texas has…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Incentive Grants, State Policy, Policy Analysis