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Evans, Brent J. – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2012
This research examines the short term success of a postsecondary federal financial aid program, the SMART Grant, designed to increase this stock of scientific human capital. An exploration of the success of this program provides the opportunity to address two critically important research questions. Do financial incentives encourage students to…
Descriptors: Incentives, Undergraduate Students, Student Financial Aid, Federal Programs
Burdman, Pamela – Institute for College Access & Success, 2012
To ensure that students have access to the full range of financial aid they may need to succeed, colleges must be able to confidently and responsibly offer federal student loans. The Institute for College Access & Success (TICAS) and the California Community Colleges Student Financial Aid Administrators' Association (CCCSFAAA) support…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Student Financial Aid, Student Loan Programs, Federal Programs
Lauen, Douglas Lee; Gaddis, S. Michael – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2012
This study aims to determine whether educational accountability promotes educational triage. This study exploits a natural experiment in North Carolina in which standards increased first in math in 2006 and second in reading in 2008 to determine whether an increase in educational standards caused an increase in educational triage at the expense of…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Low Achievement, Academic Achievement, Academic Standards
Schirm, Allen, Ed.; Kirkendall, Nancy, Ed. – National Academies Press, 2012
The National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs, administered by the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), are key components of the nation's food security safety net, providing free or low-cost meals to millions of schoolchildren each day. To qualify their children each year for free or…
Descriptors: Lunch Programs, School Districts, Breakfast Programs, Nutrition
Hill, Loralee Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Educational leaders continue to be challenged in terms of accountability measures for increased student achievement, as mandated by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB). In particular, schools must show adequate yearly progress (AYP) reaching 100% proficiency levels for all students in the areas of English language arts and mathematics by…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Correlation, Academic Standards, State Standards
Gordon, Kimberley Hall – ProQuest LLC, 2012
A number of costs are associated with the implementation of trade agreements not the least of which is the cost to the American workforce. The information age ushered in an era of globalization unlike anything the world economy had experienced before. As countries raced forward to dominate emerging markets and grow market share, millions of…
Descriptors: Salary Wage Differentials, Job Training, Dislocated Workers, Program Evaluation
McNeil, Michele – Education Week, 2012
If Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney wins the November election, his ascension could endanger--or dismantle--key Obama administration education initiatives and lead to a slimmed-down and less activist U.S. Department of Education. Scaled back Education Department and cloudy prospects for Obama initiatives are among the scenarios. But…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Political Candidates, Politics of Education
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Choi, Kilchan; Goldschmidt, Pete – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2012
Value-added models and growth-based accountability aim to evaluate school's performance based on student growth in learning. The current focus is on linking the results from value-added models to the ones from growth-based accountability systems including Adequate Yearly Progress decisions mandated by No Child Left Behind. We present a new…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Models, Probability, Longitudinal Studies
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Han, Bing; Dalal, Siddhartha R.; McCaffrey, Daniel F. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2012
There is widespread interest in using various statistical inference tools as a part of the evaluations for individual teachers and schools. Evaluation systems typically involve classifying hundreds or even thousands of teachers or schools according to their estimated performance. Many current evaluations are largely based on individual estimates…
Descriptors: Statistical Inference, Error of Measurement, Classification, Statistical Analysis
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Gottlieb, Esther E. – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2012
For over two decades the State of Ohio has been reforming its education system. This article focuses on the 2006 reform initiatives: a newly elected governor pledged to review and revise its 2002 kindergarten to twelfth grad (K-12) academic content standards and benchmark them to international "best-in-class" measures, given Ohio's need…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Change, Academic Standards, State Standards
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Merrill, Marina L.; Taylor, Nicole L.; Martin, Alison J.; Maxim, Lauren A.; D'Ambrosio, Ryan; Gabriel, Roy M.; Wendt, Staci J.; Mannix, Danyelle; Wells, Michael E. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2012
This paper presents a mixed-method approach to measuring the functioning of Safe Schools/Healthy Students (SS/HS) Initiative partnerships. The SS/HS national evaluation team developed a survey to collect partners' perceptions of functioning within SS/HS partnerships. Average partnership functioning scores were used to rank each site from lowest to…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, School Safety, Child Health, Federal Programs
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2012
What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) quick reviews (QRs) are designed to provide education practitioners and policymakers with timely, preliminary objective assessments of the quality of the research evidence from recently released research papers and reports that have received coverage in the media. These reviews focus primarily on studies of the…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Evidence Based Practice, Research Design, Evaluation Criteria
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Zilberberg, Anna; Anderson, Robin D.; Finney, Sara J.; Marsh, Kimberly R. – Educational Assessment, 2013
In the United States, government mandates for educational accountability have prompted an increase in testing in K-12 and higher education settings, resulting in a generation of millennial students who have undergone repeated assessment over the course of their educational careers. The cumulative effects of testing may range from increasingly…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Accountability, Attitude Measures
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Stone, James R., III – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2013
Programs of study are the most recent in a series of federal efforts to create a more transparent and rational system for school-to-work transition for all youth. The current article places this construct in the context of today's labor market and the new focus on college and career readiness for all students. It then provides evidence indicating…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Career Readiness, College Readiness, Transitional Programs
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Jimenez-Castellanos, Oscar; Okhremtchouk, Irina – Educational Considerations, 2013
The K-12 student population is becoming increasingly diverse in the United States. In particular, the number of English Language Learners (ELLs) rose from 4.7 million in 1980 to 11.2 million in 2009, more than doubling from 10% to 21% of the student population (U.S. Department of Education n.d.). At approximately 1.8 million, the state of…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Educational Finance, Federal Programs, State Aid
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