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Harrison, Neil – Higher Education Review, 2012
Extant between 2004 and 2011, Aimhigher was the UK government's flagship national initiative for widening participation to higher education for young people from disadvantaged social groups, with costs approaching 1 billion British Pounds. Its demise was predicated on a perceived lack of progress and the absence of compelling evaluative research.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Federal Programs, Access to Education
Frenkiewich, Jeffrey C. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
On January 25, 2011, United States President Barack Obama delivered his State of the Union address to Congress and to the nation. As part of that address, President Obama articulated his vision for American education and stated that America had "to win the race to educate our kids" (Obama, 2011, state of the union). Mr. Obama's speech…
Descriptors: Slow Learners, Standardized Tests, Federal Programs, Educational Improvement
Drill, Karen; Miller, Shazia; Behrstock-Sherratt, Ellen – American Institutes for Research, 2012
Based on two studies that we conducted in the Chicago metropolitan area in 2009 and 2010, we found that teachers do, in fact, use research, although they tend to seek it out under very specific conditions and circumstances. Namely, teachers tend to look for research in response to an immediate, pressing concern, such as how to best teach fractions…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices
Rui, Ning; Feldman, Jill M. – Online Submission, 2012
Notwithstanding broad utility of COPs (classroom observation protocols), there has been limited documentation of the psychometric properties of even the most popular COPs. This study attempted to fill this void by closely examining the item and domain-level IRR (inter-rater reliability) of a COP that was used in a federally funded striving readers…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Interrater Reliability, Correlation, Psychometrics
Karoly, Lynn A. – RAND Corporation, 2012
Using two sources of representative data: the 2005 National Household Education Survey and the 2007 RAND California Preschool Study, this paper describes child care and early learning arrangements for the approximately 2.8 million California children ages 0 to 5 who are younger than the age at which they would enter kindergarten. The focus is on…
Descriptors: Child Care, Preschool Children, Participation, Disadvantaged Youth
Barnett, Steve; Nores, Milagros – National Institute for Early Education Research, 2012
This working paper estimates participation in early childhood education (ECE) programs by child's age, program setting, family income level, and child's household language. To produce the best possible estimates of participation, the authors combined information from multiple data sets. In 2010, approximately 6.6 million between the ages of 2 and…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Poverty, Family Income
Schmit, Stephanie; Ewen, Danielle – Center for Law and Social Policy, Inc. (CLASP), 2012
Since 1965, Head Start has provided high quality early education and comprehensive support services to the nation's poorest children from ages 3 through school age. In 1994, the federal Early Head Start (EHS) program was created to address the comprehensive needs of poor children under age 3 and pregnant women. Head Start and Early Head Start's…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Family Programs, Low Income Groups, Infants
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2012
The federal school nutrition programs are the keystones to the diets of millions of American children. Schools have the opportunity to support healthy nutrition habits early in life by creating environments that encourage the consumption of healthy foods and beverages. This paper provides resources which offer general information about the…
Descriptors: Child Health, Nutrition, Dietetics, Federal Programs
McNeil, Michele – Education Week, 2012
Grant recipients risk losing millions of dollars in Race to the Top money if they fail to live up to their promises, federal education officials make clear. By threatening to revoke Hawaii's $75 million Race to the Top award for failing to make "adequate progress" on key milestones of its education reform plan, U.S. Secretary of…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Grants, Federal Aid, Federal Programs
Hurlbut, J. Benjamin; Robert, Jason Scott – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2012
Owen-Smith et al. (this issue) answer the question about expanding funding for human pluripotent stem cell (hPSC) research decisively and emphatically. They conclude that the U.S. federal government should expand funding in volume and scope, and stabilize it through regularity. According to Hurlbut and Robert, If the clear goal of policy should…
Descriptors: Science and Society, Ethics, Governance, Federal Aid
Milligan, Julie; Neal, Gwen; Singleton, Jacques – Education, 2012
Since the initiation of PL 94-142 enacted by the United States Congress in 1975, special education has been mandated, funded and regulated by the federal government. There have been both benefits and drawbacks to this initiative. In positive terms and most importantly, children who require different educational services are identified, and…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Gifted, Administrative Principles, Administrator Education
Hirsch, Jerrold – Community Literacy Journal, 2012
An overview of the history of the Federal Writers' Project, hitting on critical reference points for our vision of what the project might look like today: the 1930s' FWP's cross-disciplinary integration of literature and history; the rejection of strict divisions between high and low culture; and the bottom-up approach to history that had begun…
Descriptors: Literature, History, Interdisciplinary Approach, Writing (Composition)
Cackley, Alicia Puente – US Government Accountability Office, 2010
Multiple federal programs provide homelessness assistance through programs targeted to those experiencing homelessness or through mainstream programs that broadly assist low-income populations. Programs' definitions of homelessness range from including primarily people in homeless shelters or on the street to also including those living with…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Federal Government, Public Agencies, Vocabulary
Ashby, Cornelia M. – US Government Accountability Office, 2010
This paper is a transcript of a letter written by the author, Cornelia M. Ashby, Director, Education, Workforce, and Income Security Issues, to June St. Clair Atkinson, State Superintendent of the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. In this letter, the author reports that she and her colleagues have examined the efforts of selected…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Programs, Audits (Verification), Expenditures
Dance, S. Dallas – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2015
The members of the Large Countywide and Suburban District Consortium--a group of large, highly diverse, and successful districts across the country--have made great strides in achieving college and career readiness for all students. While they are succeeding, the consortium proposes that more could be done to accomplish their objectives through…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Accountability, Program Proposals, Federal Programs