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Green, Sheridan – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Increasing demands for design rigor and an emphasis on evidence-based practice on a national level indicated a need for further guidance related to successful implementation of randomized studies in education. Rigorous and meaningful experimental research and its conclusions help establish a valid theoretical and evidence base for educational…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Children, Disadvantaged Youth
Keaveny, Stacy M. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Federal and state guidelines for school reform dominate the landscape of public education. Florida and its school districts, as a Race to the Top state, are in the process of fully implementing a value-added model of teacher evaluation. Effective school leaders are calling upon the theoretical framework of transformational, visionary and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Public Education, Instructional Leadership, Value Added Models
Tennessee Department of Education, 2013
Tennessee has undertaken several wide-ranging reforms aimed at educator practice and effectiveness over the past several years, including the launch of a new teacher evaluation system, modification of teacher tenure policy, and initial implementation of Common Core State Standards. This report from the Tennessee Department of Education (TDOE)…
Descriptors: Teacher Retirement, Trend Analysis, Educational Policy, Teacher Effectiveness
Thompson-Jones, Mary – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The Benjamin Gilman International Scholarship Program, founded in 2000 as a means to fund study abroad for low-income students, has become the largest federally funded scholarship program for study abroad at the undergraduate level, with more than 2,300 recipients in academic year (AY) 2010-2011. Interviews with former Congressman Benjamin Gilman,…
Descriptors: Scholarships, Study Abroad, Undergraduate Students, Interviews
Napoleone, Antonio – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Across the nation, 48% of schools have failed to meet No Child Left Behind's testing targets (Center of Education Policy, 2011). In 2011, more schools had not made Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) than in any previous year, according to stateby-state data for the 2011 school year. Out of a total of 980 schools 461, or 47%, did not make AYP in…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Academic Achievement, Case Studies, Best Practices
Scott, George A. – US Government Accountability Office, 2012
Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education programs help to enhance the nation's global competitiveness. Many federal agencies have been involved in administering these programs. Concerns have been raised about the overall effectiveness and efficiency of STEM education programs. GAO examined (1) the number of federal…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Strategic Planning, Systems Approach, Science Education
US Department of Education, 2012
The Department of Education (Department) is required to use negotiated rulemaking to develop proposed regulations for programs authorized under Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (HEA). Under negotiated rulemaking, the Department works to develop the proposed regulations in collaboration with representatives of the parties…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Eligibility, Federal Programs, Proprietary Schools
Riddle, Wayne – Center on Education Policy, 2012
This report analyzes the NCLB waiver applications submitted in the second round by 26 states and Washington, D.C. to the U.S. Department of Education in February 2012. Among the findings in the report is that, like the first round of applications, these states are proposing new accountability systems that will lead to greater complexity both…
Descriptors: Accountability, Academic Achievement, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation
Making Every Diploma Count: Using Extended-Year Graduation Rates to Measure Student Success. Updated
American Youth Policy Forum, 2012
States and districts are under increasing pressure to ensure all students complete high school in four years; however, many students who fall off-track on the way to graduation take longer than the traditional four years to earn a high school diploma or its equivalent. Unfortunately, those schools and districts serving overage, under-credit…
Descriptors: Accountability, Outcomes of Education, Graduation, High Schools
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2012
In the past 30 years, the prevalence of obesity in children has increased to epidemic proportions. The obesity rate among children ages 2 to 5 has more than doubled (from 5 percent to 10.4 percent); more than quadrupled (from 4.2 to 17 percent) among children ages 6 to 11; and more than tripled among adolescents ages 12 to 19 (from 4.6 to 17.6…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Adolescents, Nutrition, Child Health
Klein, Alyson – Education Week, 2012
Ask Antonio White what he thinks of Race to the Top--President Barack Obama's signature K-12 initiative--and the Florida teacher will tell you the competitive-grant program is a "difficult pill to swallow." Merit pay for teachers based partly on student test scores is "a joke," he says. He's also not a fan of expanding charter…
Descriptors: Presidents, Elementary Secondary Education, Elections, Political Attitudes
Edwards, Mark – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2012
In this article, the author describes their digital conversion initiative at Mooresville Graded School District. The project has placed a MacBook Air laptop in the hands of every 3rd through 12th grader and their teachers in the district over the past four years, with over 5,000 computers distributed. But they believe their academic successes have…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Indicators, Computers, Federal Programs
Boyer, Paul – Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, 2012
An unlikely promoter of tribal development, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has set the bar for collaboration and capacity building. At first glance, the NSF was an unlikely and even unpromising administrator for a program promoting tribal development. Unlike the Bureau of Indian Affairs or the Department of Education, the NSF did not have a…
Descriptors: American Indians, Alaska Natives, Federal Programs, Grants
Tinkering and Turnarounds: Understanding the Contemporary Campaign to Improve Low-Performing Schools
Duke, Daniel L. – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2012
An unprecedented amount of attention in recent years has been focused on turning around low-performing schools. Drawing on insights from Tyack and Cuban's (1995) "Tinkering Toward Utopia," the article analyzes the forces behind the school turnaround phenomenon and how they have evolved since passage of the No Child Left Behind Act. The…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Educational Change
Herman, Rebecca – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2012
This article explores the research on turning around low performing schools to summarize what we know, what we don't know, and what this means for scaling school turnaround efforts. "School turnaround" is defined here as quick, dramatic gains in academic achievement for persistently low performing schools. The article first considers the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, School Turnaround, Low Achievement, Achievement Gains