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Download full textBird, Kisha; Dawkins, Caitlin; Johnson, Lisa – Center for Law and Social Policy, Inc. (CLASP), 2020
Too many young people cycle in and out of prison, jails, and detention centers and face probation and parole conditions that keep them locked out of opportunity. These interactions with the criminal justice system demand the need for both equitable practices and programs that support second chances and large-scale investments in decarceration.…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Access to Education, Correctional Rehabilitation, Recidivism
Soricone, Lisa; Endel, Barbara – Jobs for the Future, 2019
The purpose of this implementation report is to help community college leaders, foundations, and public education policymakers understand the impact that nudges have on student success, especially for students from populations that typically have low rates of college completion. The promising results of the NTSS [Nudging to STEM Success]…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Program Effectiveness
Wiener, Ross; Jacobs, Ariel – Aspen Institute, 2011
As new performance-management-related policies go from idea to implementation, policy makers and education leaders will be called upon to flesh-out what are still broad principles in many areas. This represents a significant inflection point for the teaching profession and the management of public school systems. Early decisions will determine…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Job Performance, Teacher Evaluation, School Administration
Jones, Dennis – Complete College America, 2012
Performance funding--the linking of allocation of resources to accomplishment of certain desired outcomes--is an idea that is once again finding favor with policymakers. It has intuitive appeal; what's not to like about paying for results? While it is a notion that makes common sense to most decisionmakers, it is an idea with a very checkered…
Descriptors: Resource Allocation, Financial Support, Achievement, Higher Education
Bush, Susan C. – John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities, 2012
This issue brief is part of a larger study of California continuation high schools begun in 2007. While the first phase of the study examined various alternative education options throughout the state, this second phase focused on 23 higher performing continuation high schools in California selected based on multiple student outcome measures. This…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Learner Engagement, Outcome Measures, Outcomes of Education
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Direct linkPetti, Amy D. – Journal of Staff Development, 2010
In this article, the author describes how an Oregon district redefines coaching roles to find a balance between school and district goals. As director of improvement for North Clackamas School District in Milwaukie, Oregon, near Portland, the author's role of coaching the coach was new, and the coaches welcomed the immediate feedback. Through the…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Goal Orientation, Program Implementation, Writing Workshops
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1993
A study was done to assess implementation of the Chapter 1 program improvement provisions of the Hawkins-Stafford Elementary and Secondary School Improvement Amendments of 1988. Chapter 1 is the largest federal education program for educationally deprived school children, and the Hawkins-Stafford Act was designed to ensure that individual schools…
Descriptors: Accountability, Compensatory Education, Educational Objectives, Educationally Disadvantaged
