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A Focused Look at Schools Receiving School Improvement Grants That Have Percentages of English Language Learner Students. NCEE Evaluation Brief. NCEE 2014-4014
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Golden, Laura; Harris, Barbara; Mercado-Garcia, Diana; Boyle, Andrea; Le Floch, Kerstin Carlson; O'Day, Jennifer – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2014
The Study of School Turnaround examines the improvement process in a purposive sample of 35 case study schools receiving federal funds through the School Improvement Grants (SIG) program over a three-year period (2010-11 to 2012-13 school years). This evaluation brief focuses on 11 of these SIG schools with high proportions of English Language…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, Educational Improvement, Federal Aid, Grants
Quality Measurement in Early Childhood Settings
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Zaslow, Martha, Ed.; Martinez-Beck, Ivelisse, Ed.; Tout, Kathryn, Ed.; Halle, Tamara, Ed. – Brookes Publishing Company, 2011
What constitutes quality in early childhood settings, and how can it best be measured with today's widely used tools and promising new approaches? Find authoritative answers in this book, a must-have for high-level administrators and policymakers as more and more states adopt early childhood Quality Rating and Improvement Systems. The most…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Early Childhood Education, Disabilities, Toddlers
Implementing School Improvement Plans: A Directory of Research-Based Tools.
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Regional Laboratory for Educational Improvement of the Northeast & Islands, Andover, MA. – 1987
This annotated directory provides practitioners and service providers with references to existing programs, tools, and resources that school improvement teams may use to design and implement projects. The directory draws on a variety of products developed or used by state departments of education, school districts, regional educational…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Cooperative Planning, Decision Making, Educational Change
Collaborative Inquiry in the Arkansas Education Renewal Consortium.
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Kennedy, Robert L. – 1987
This report reviews the collaborative and evaluative efforts of an Arkansas education renewal consortium comprised of two universities and nine school districts. The reform originated from a smaller project that aimed to establish a broad communication base and systematic planning for meeting student needs. The current project, begun in 1985-86,…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Consortia, Cooperative Planning, Decision Making
Performance-Based Preparation of Principals: A Framework for Improvement. A Special Report of the NASSP Consortium for the Performance-Based Preparation of Principals.
National Association of Secondary School Principals, Reston, VA. – 1985
Preparation programs for principals should have excellent academic and performance based components. In examining the nature of performance based principal preparation this report finds that school administration programs must bridge the gap between conceptual learning in the classroom and the requirements of professional practice. A number of…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Administrator Education, Administrator Qualifications, Competency Based Education
The New Federalism in Education: State Responses to the 1981 Education Consolidation and Improvement Act.
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Darling-Hammond, Linda; Marks, Ellen L. – 1983
The Education Consolidation and Improvement Act (ECIA) of 1981 is intended to provide opportunities for states and local governments to have more control of their educational programs and to deregulate the administration of federal programs. Introduced at a time when state funding and revenue systems are in flux and severely depleted, it presents…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Decision Making, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education