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Public School Forum of North Carolina, 2024
The 2024 North Carolina Education Primer serves as a fact-based guide to public education in North Carolina. The Primer provides a comprehensive overview of how education policy is made, along with the current state of public education and the policies guiding it. The Forum produces this guide in order to inform current policymakers, candidates…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Public Education, Public Schools
Baenen, Nancy – Wake County Public School System, 2013
Students with Limited English Proficiency (LEP) entering U.S. schools in grade 9 face a tight timeline to simultaneously learn English and graduate from high school in four or five years. This study focuses on student outcomes and progress indicators for the cohort of ninth graders new to WCPSS in 2008-09 who had limited English proficiency. Based…
Descriptors: Limited English Speaking, High School Students, Grade 9, Second Language Learning
Goerge, Robert; Cusick, Gretchen R.; Wasserman, Miriam; Gladden, Matthew – Chapin Hall Center for Children, 2007
After-school programs for adolescents may be a way to promote positive youth development, and thus, it is important to understand what impact after-school programs can have on the educational achievement of high school students. Chicago's After School Matters (ASM) program offers an exceptional opportunity to study whether an after-school program…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, High School Students, Student Characteristics, Job Skills