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Daugherty, Jill; DePadilla, Lara; Sarmiento, Kelly – Health Education Journal, 2019
Background: Concussions are common among youth athletes. Responsibility for the recognition and management of concussion is often put on coaches. To equip coaches with appropriate knowledge and skills, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched the HEADS UP: Concussion in Youth Sports online training. Objectives: To determine…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Prevention, Head Injuries, Athletic Coaches
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Quinn, Daniel J.; Klein, C. Suzanne – Education Leadership Review of Doctoral Research, 2019
This study explored how district leaders in three Michigan school districts reacted to a state-induced policy calling for district-implemented performance-pay for teachers in response to Race to the Top (RttT) in 2010. The study is positioned at the intersection of reform efforts and policy implementation in practice. Using a multi-site…
Descriptors: Merit Pay, School Districts, Teacher Salaries, State Policy
National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2019
This report covers Commonwealth and state/territory government-funded training (Commonwealth or state recurrent funding, Commonwealth specific purpose funding or state specific funding). This publication provides a summary of data relating to estimated students, programs, subjects and training providers in Australia's government-funded vocational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Federal Aid, Federal Programs
AASA, The School Superintendent's Association, 2019
For more than 30 years, Medicaid has paid for eligible school health services included in student's Individualized Education Programs (IEP) or Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP). Seventy-nine percent of low-income, school aged children receive health coverage through Medicaid and Child Health Plan (CHIP) which is 37% of all school-aged…
Descriptors: Health Insurance, Federal Programs, Superintendents, School Health Services
Wolfson, Julia; Insolera, Noura; Cohen, Alicia – University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research, 2019
In this report we present results from our study of the effect of SNAP [Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program] and WIC [Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children] participation during childhood on food insecurity risk in young adulthood. We also examined the effect of parental nutritional knowledge and childhood…
Descriptors: Food, Security (Psychology), Federal Programs, Nutrition
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Bartel, Anna C. – Journal of Student Financial Aid, 2020
Education tax credits provide federal financial aid to a wide expanse of American taxpayers; however, little research or analysis has been done on these costly programs. There has been little evidence of its link to college enrollment growth. This descriptive paper outlines the establishment of education tax credits, their original intent, and the…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Tax Credits, Federal Aid, Higher Education
Kathryn Eveline Webb Gonzalez – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Recent policy efforts in early care and education (ECE) have aimed to ensure that all children have access to high-quality ECE programming. However, there is debate about how to most effectively improve ECE quality at scale. The three papers in this dissertation provide new insights into the impacts of two widely-used policies aimed at improving…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Educational Quality, Educational Improvement
Arendale, David R.; Colvin, Deltha Q. – Online Submission, 2022
(Purposes) There are two purposes of this history. The first was to describe how the EOA National Best Practices Clearinghouse identified, described, and evaluated evidence that was focused on effective educational practices for Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) and TRIO students who were economically…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Equal Education, Access to Education, Best Practices
US Department of Agriculture, 2022
The Agricultural Act of 2014 authorized $200 million for the development, implementation, and evaluation of up to 10 pilot projects to test innovative strategies to increase employment and reduce the need for SNAP among program participants. The 10 States that received grants were California, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Illinois,…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Federal Programs, Program Implementation, Program Evaluation
Sarah Surrain; Stephanie M. Curenton; Cecilia Jarquín Tapiab – Grantee Submission, 2022
Research Findings: Children's oral language skills lay the foundation for later literacy and can be fostered through responsive conversations with teachers. However, such conversations are rare in preschool, particularly between teachers and dual language learners (DLLs), or students who speak a minoritized language at home. DLLs benefit when…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Student Participation
Harding, Jessica F.; Gleason, Philip; Aikens, Nikki; Malone, Lizabeth; Tarullo, Louisa; Cannon, Judy; Cronquist, Kathryn – Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 2021
Research has found that children who attend Head Start for more than one year tend to score higher on cognitive skills at the end of pre-K or at kindergarten entry than children who attend for one year or less (Lee 2011; Wen et al. 2012b; Xue et al. 2016). Although attending Head Start for more years is linked with higher cognitive scores,…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Federal Programs, Achievement Gains, Language Skills
Buckner, Sharonda LaTriece – Online Submission, 2021
Students from higher-income households have more advantages related to access to a quality education and educational opportunities. These advantages give students from higher-income households many opportunities to achieve academic and career success. Low-income African-American students, on the other hand, encounter many challenges as they aspire…
Descriptors: College Students, African American Students, Low Income Students, Community Colleges
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Elizabeth Miller; Christa Greenfader – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2021
Background/Context: The early school years are an important time for building family-school relationships (Sibley & Dearing, 2014). As such, family engagement is a top priority of organizations that serve young children, such as Head Start. Children whose parents report being involved in their school demonstrate greater social competence and…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, Federal Programs, Social Services, Hispanic Americans
Project on Student Debt, 2018
U.S. citizens or permanent residents, enrolled at least half time in a qualified program at a participating school, not in default on a prior federal student loan, and not previously convicted of a drug offense while receiving federal financial aid are eligible to apply for a student loan. This chart summarizes the interest rates, loan limits, and…
Descriptors: Student Loan Programs, Federal Programs, Credit (Finance), Fees
Burgess, Rebecca – American Enterprise Institute, 2018
Veterans are the unacknowledged permanent ambassadors of national service. How veterans are publicly portrayed directly relates to how society conceptualizes military service, including what happens to an individual during that service. In an all-volunteer force, reputation is key to the attractiveness of joining a profession that can end in death…
Descriptors: Veterans Education, Federal Legislation, Economic Opportunities, Empowerment
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