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Aaron M. Pallas; Cami Touloukian – Teachers College Record, 2024
Background or Context: Federal and state reforms have expanded accountability systems for school districts, schools, and teachers. However, there is little evidence that the implementation of new teacher evaluation systems relying on measures of student learning and measures of teaching practice, with differentiated performance categories and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Federal Legislation, State Legislation, Educational Legislation
F. Michelle Bringas – ProQuest LLC, 2024
While little research has been conducted on Asian undocumented students in higher education, it was the powerful story of an Asian undocumented high school student, Tereza Lee, that inspired Senator Richard Durbin to co-author immigration legislation known as the 2001 DREAM Act. Tereza's story represents an important counter-story to what many…
Descriptors: Undocumented Immigrants, High School Students, Immigration, Legislators
Scott Raub – Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, 2024
In some instances, a local school district may determine that it cannot provide free appropriate public education (FAPE) for a student with a disability within their district. In partnership with the student's family and teachers, the district may decide that the student would be best served in a private school or facility better suited to meet…
Descriptors: Student Placement, Students with Disabilities, State Policy, Access to Education
RP Group, 2024
Assembly Bill 1705 (AB 1705) seeks to strengthen students' completion of the first STEM Calculus course for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) programs across the California Community Colleges. The law sets new standards for students' placement and first math enrollment to ensure STEM students begin in transfer-level coursework that…
Descriptors: State Legislation, STEM Education, Calculus, Community College Students
RP Group, 2024
This technical appendix accompanies the report, "Preparatory Pathways and STEM Calculus Completion: Implications of the AB 1705 Standards." The appendices contain a full methods section and multivariate analyses that augment the descriptive analyses presented in the report. Together, these analyses examined a cohort of more than 37,000…
Descriptors: State Legislation, STEM Education, Calculus, Community College Students
Nastasia Schreiner; Aleksandr Shneyderman – Research Services, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2024
This Research Brief examines the success of Miami-Dade County Public Schools (MDCPS) 12th grade students in meeting missing assessment graduation requirements through the non-reportable (NR) American College Testing ACT and the College Board SAT exams. 1337 students took either one of the exams or both in the spring of 2024, and most students took…
Descriptors: College Seniors, Graduation Requirements, Public Schools, Grade 12
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Scott, Taylor; Pugel, Jessica; Fernandes, Mary; Cruz, Katherine; Long, Elizabeth C.; Giray, Cagla; Storace, Rachel; Crowley, D. Max – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2023
Background: It is widely recognised that policymakers use research deemed relevant, yet little is understood about ways to enhance perceived relevance of research evidence. Observing policymakers' access of research online provides a pragmatic way to investigate predictors of relevance. Aims and objectives: This study investigates a range of…
Descriptors: Research, Relevance (Education), Crisis Management, Policy
Wang, Jianjun – Online Submission, 2023
California voters decided to collect a 50 cent-per-pack tax on cigarette and other tobacco products and use the money to fund early childhood services under Proposition 10, California Children and Families First Act of 1998. In compliance to the legislative requirement of Result-Based Accountability (RBA) on the revenue spending, this report…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Taxes, Early Childhood Education, State Legislation
Brown, Chequita S.; Ruedas-Gracia, Nidia; Zamani-Gallaher, Eboni M. – Office of Community College Research and Leadership, 2023
The Postsecondary Pathways for Former Foster Care Youth (PP-FFCY) study is a research project that focuses on the transitions of foster care alums to and through postsecondary institutions. Through the Ofice of Community College Research and Leadership (OCCRL), the PP-FFCY project team is conducting a comprehensive needs assessment report that:…
Descriptors: Foster Care, College Attendance, Program Descriptions, Community Colleges
Farber, Misty Dawn – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this quantitative comparative quasi-experimental study was to compare the perceptions of work-life balance and turnover intentions of four-day and five-day rural Oklahoma classroom teachers. Four-day school districts have become increasingly popular across the United States as a way to reduce operational expenses, with 92 four-day…
Descriptors: Family Work Relationship, Faculty Mobility, State Legislation, Measures (Individuals)
K. B. F. Francis – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This descriptive exploratory study describes teacher self-efficacy in providing LGBTQ+ support in the implicit and explicit social studies curriculum in the wake of numerous anti-LGBTQ+ legislation in education in Florida. Four high school social studies teachers from three different Florida public school districts were interviewed to answer three…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Teacher Effectiveness, Self Efficacy, LGBTQ People
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Cooper, Patricia M.; Casey, Erin M. – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2023
Professional literature in human development, social foundations, and academic subject area courses function as a major but understudied tool of teacher preparation programs. Through the overlapping lenses of sociocultural and critical theories of child development, this study employs descriptive content analysis to investigate the potential of…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Democratic Values, Early Childhood Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education
Erdelac, Ryan Scott – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Indiana K-12 teacher evaluations were lawfully mandated by Public Law (PL) 90 in 2012. PL 90 required all public-school teachers to be rated annually by their administrators using a state approved teacher evaluation rubric. Teachers were evaluated as highly effective, effective, needs improvement, and ineffective. Student achievement and growth on…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Administrator Attitudes, Teacher Evaluation, Elementary School Teachers
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Rebeca Heringer; Melanie Janzen – Critical Education, 2023
The enactment of the Education Modernization Act by the government of Manitoba in early 2021 proposed several structural changes to the governance and delivery of provincial education. The related documents had a strong emphasis on improving the achievement of all students, making them future-ready and strengthening parental involvement. But…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, State Legislation, Educational Legislation, Diversity
John Westall; Andrew Utter; Katharine O. Strunk – Education Policy Innovation Collaborative, 2023
Early literacy skills are critical to the educational outcomes of young students. Accordingly, 19 states have early literacy policies that require grade retention for underperforming readers at the end of third grade. However, there is mixed evidence about retention's effectiveness and concerns that retention may disproportionately impact…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, State Legislation, Emergent Literacy, Grade Repetition
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