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Download full textHeyward, Georgia – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2017
This guide was created to help district leaders understand the benefits and drawbacks of the four-day school week, assess their district's readiness to make the switch, and evaluate the results of implementing the new schedule. This guide begins with an overview of common goals and outcomes for the four-day school week. It then provides a set of…
Descriptors: Guides, School Schedules, School Districts, Readiness
Frank, Kenneth – Education Policy Center at Michigan State University, 2014
This study concerns how intra-organizational networks affect the implementation of policies and practices in organizations. In particular, we attend to the role of the informal subgroup or clique in cultivating and distributing locally adapted and integrated knowledge, or know-how. We develop two hypotheses based on the importance of…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Hypothesis Testing, Educational Policy, Social Systems
Martin, Florence; Parker, Michele; Allred, Beth – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2013
This is a case study of faculty adoption and use of Horizon Wimba Virtual Classroom in online courses at a Southeastern University in the United States. The purpose of this case study was to explore faculty adoption and use of Horizon Wimba in their online courses. This inquiry is based on Yen et al. (2010) adoption factors (organizational,…
Descriptors: Virtual Classrooms, Case Studies, Synchronous Communication, Adoption (Ideas)
McCarthy, Sally A. – Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, 2009
Online learning is a complex undertaking that holds great potential as a teaching and learning mode that public colleges and universities may strategically employ to achieve broad institutional priorities and contribute to the attainment of national goals. The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities- (APLU) Sloan National Commission on…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Communication Strategies, Strategic Planning, Land Grant Universities
Minnesota Department of Education, 2004
A large and growing body of research supports the critical relationship between early childhood experiences and successful life-long outcomes. Assessing the readiness of children as they enter school is a high priority. This report describes findings from Year Two of the assessment of school readiness with a larger random sample of children…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Recognition (Achievement), Kindergarten, Human Services
