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Sarah M. Dunifon – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Through a landscape analysis and content analysis, this study investigated informal Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education funding and evaluation policies. The primary objectives of this study were to identify informal STEM education funding organizations, and to examine funding priorities and evaluation policies…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Finance, Informal Education, STEM Education
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Alejandro Valencia-Arias; Paula Andrea Rodríguez-Correa; Alejandro Marín-Carmona; Jorge Iván Zuleta-Orrego; Lucia Palacios-Moya; Cesar Alexander Pérez Baquedano; Ada Gallegos – Cogent Education, 2024
University Social Responsibility (USR), as an innovative management approach in the university environment, has given Higher Education Institutions the opportunity to strengthen their commitment to society. In this context, the present study focuses on the evaluation of a decentralization strategy, taking as a case study the "U en mi…
Descriptors: Universities, School Responsibility, Social Responsibility, College Administration
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Abubakar Musah; Godfred Aawaar; Godwin Musah – Cogent Education, 2024
Education plays an essential role in improving the welfare of society. Governments, therefore, invest huge sums of money in education. However, there is a lack of conclusive evidence regarding the impact of public education funding on educational outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa. Therefore, this study analyses the short-run and long-run effects of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Public Education
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Niamh Lafferty; Michael Sheehan; Conor Walsh; Anna Mai Rooney; Patricia Mannix McNamara – Cogent Education, 2024
Teachers' engagement with high quality continuous professional development (CPD) opportunities has repeatedly and consistently been linked to an array of positive outcomes for students, teachers, and the wider school community. In light of this, multiple countries have developed and designed frameworks for CPD, such as Cosán in Ireland, the CPD…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Faculty Development, Educational Quality, Educational Opportunities
G. G. Weisenfeld; Erin Harmeyer – National Institute for Early Education Research, 2024
Our updated brief reports that while the number of states allowing FCC participation remained unchanged from 2019-2020 to 2022-2023, there were notable shifts in participation within states. The enrollment of children in FCC settings saw significant increases, with some states experiencing substantial growth. However, concerns regarding the…
Descriptors: Child Care, Educational Finance, State Aid, State Policy
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Biniam Tesfamariam; Carlos Alamo-Pastrana; Elizabeth H. Bradley – Journal of Education, 2024
Higher education has been touted as critical to social mobility, even greater longevity; however, these benefits accrue with degree completion, and many students who begin college never earn a degree. Using the most recent Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), we sought to understand variation in college completion rates and test…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, College Graduates, Educational Finance, Institutional Characteristics
Marisa Mission; Paul Beach; Juliet Squire – Bellwether, 2024
This report is the second in a series that unpacks the barriers to access that families face, the variety of solutions that navigation organizations have developed, and the challenges that limit the reach and impact of those solutions. This series offers recommendations for how to help navigators address these challenges and support more families…
Descriptors: Navigation, Access to Education, Educational Policy, Barriers
Allison H. Friedman-Krauss; W. Steven Barnett; Katherine S. Hodges; Karin A. Garver; Tracy Merriman Jost; G. G. Weisenfeld; Jennifer K. Duer – National Institute for Early Education Research, 2024
The 21st "State of Preschool" finds the state of preschool in America at a critical moment. The states have emerged, albeit unevenly, from the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic, and are poised to make new progress toward more effective and equitable preschool policies. Additional states have committed to offering every child publicly funded…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschools, Preschool Education, Public Schools
Mitchel B. Wallerstein – Teachers College Press, 2024
Discover how one public higher education institution was able to succeed despite the many obstacles and challenges that it faced. This is the story of how and why Baruch College of The City University of New York became a "positive outlier," overcoming serious financial constraints, physical space limitations, and other difficulties to…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Success, Urban Schools, Educational Finance
Amaya Garcia – New America, 2024
Grow Your Own (GYO) programs are an increasingly popular strategy for strengthening and diversifying the teacher workforce. By focusing on recruiting and preparing teachers from the community for the community, GYO programs are highly localized and designed to meet the needs of teacher candidates and the school systems where they will work. This…
Descriptors: State Policy, State Programs, Alternative Teacher Certification, Teacher Recruitment
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Thompson, Paul N.; Gunter, Katherine; Schuna, John M., Jr.; Tomayko, Emily J. – Education Finance and Policy, 2021
Four-day school weeks are used in over 1,600 schools across twenty-four states but little is known about adoption and implementation of these types of school calendars. Through examinations of school calendars and correspondence with school districts, we have compiled the most complete four-day school week dataset to date. We use this unique…
Descriptors: School Schedules, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, Rural Schools
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Paris, Joseph H.; Birnbaum, Matthew; Dix, Nicholas – Strategic Enrollment Management Quarterly, 2021
Graduate strategic enrollment management (SEM) professionals must become fluent in the mechanics of their institution's budget model in order to better understand how graduate enrollment headcount and tuition revenue translate into the resources that power the institution and fortify it to withstand a potentially uncertain future. This article…
Descriptors: Enrollment Management, Graduate Students, Educational Finance, Higher Education
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Civera, Alice; Cattaneo, Mattia; Meoli, Michele; Paleari, Stefano; Seeber, Marco – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2021
Modern societies regularly face crises that have major disruptive effects. Learning from past crises can inform better choices and policies when facing a new one. Following the 2008 global financial crisis, higher education scholars explored its effects on students' tuition fees through cuts in public funding. This article instead investigates how…
Descriptors: Universities, Crisis Management, Competition, Reputation
Global Partnership for Education, 2021
GPE promotes alignment of aid with partner countries' systems as part of its commitment to transform education systems and better mobilize resources for sustainable results. Our new operating model helps identify opportunities for greater alignment as part of requirements for the development of partnership compacts.
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Financial Support, Alignment (Education), Educational Change
Christopher S. Downing – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Due to shifting funding polices for community colleges, the role of the community college foundation has changed greatly from passive fund managers for the institution into active fundraisers. With over 15,000 individuals nationally serving in the volunteer role of community college foundation board member, and managing nearly one billion dollars…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Philanthropic Foundations, Volunteers, Fund Raising
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