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Tennessee Higher Education Commission, 2025
The Tennessee Education Lottery Scholarship (TELS) program was designed to meet the unique needs of the State of Tennessee, while also incorporating the hallmark elements of existing merit-based aid programs in other states. This manuscript provides a snapshot of TELS recipients and their outcomes, including narrative discussion on the current…
Descriptors: Competitive Selection, State Programs, Outcomes of Education, Scholarships
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Lucinda McKnight; Claire Charles; George Variyan – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2024
This article discusses the methodological challenges of researching elite boys' schooling, in a study involving interviewing alumni who attended these schools from the 1970s to the 2020s. In particular, through a feminist poststructuralist methodological framing, it considers the necessity for researcher reflexivity in engaging in research in such…
Descriptors: Single Sex Schools, Males, Competitive Selection, Institutional Characteristics
American Association of State Colleges and Universities, 2024
America's regional comprehensive public institutions of higher education serve a unique role as the portal through which so many of the students and much of the nation's future workforce gain the skills needed to face the economic challenges of the 21st century. In support of the critical role that its members play in the development of their…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Student Financial Aid, Access to Education, Accountability
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Christina Weiland; Rebecca Unterman; Susan Dynarski; Rachel Abenavoli; Howard Bloom; Breno Braga; Anne-Marie Faria; Erica Greenberg; Brian A. Jacob; Jane Arnold Lincove; Karen Manship; Meghan McCormick; Luke Miratrix; Tomás E. Monarrez; Pamela Morris-Perez; Anna Shapiro; Jon Valant; Lindsay Weixler – Grantee Submission, 2024
Lottery-based identification strategies offer potential for generating the next generation of evidence on U.S. early education programs. The authors' collaborative network of five research teams applying this design in early education settings and methods experts has identified six challenges that need to be carefully considered in this next…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Admission (School)
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Christina Weiland; Rebecca Unterman; Susan Dynarski; Rachel Abenavoli; Howard Bloom; Breno Braga; Anne-Marie Faria; Erica Greenberg; Brian A. Jacob; Jane Arnold Lincove; Karen Manship; Meghan McCormick; Luke Miratrix; Tomás E. Monarrez; Pamela Morris-Perez; Anna Shapiro; Jon Valant; Lindsay Weixler – AERA Open, 2024
Lottery-based identification strategies offer potential for generating the next generation of evidence on U.S. early education programs. The authors' collaborative network of five research teams applying this design in early education settings and methods experts has identified six challenges that need to be carefully considered in this next…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Admission (School)
Christina Weiland; Rebecca Unterman; Susan Dynarski; Rachel Abenavoli; Howard Bloom; Breno Braga; Anne-Marie Faria; Erica Greenberg; Brian Jacob; Jane Arnold Lincove; Karen Manship; Meghan McCormick; Luke Miratrix; Tomás E. Monarrez; Pamela Morris-Perez; Anna Shapiro; Jon Valant; Lindsay Weixler – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
Lottery-based identification strategies offer potential for generating the next generation of evidence on U.S. early education programs. Our collaborative network of five research teams applying this design in early education and methods experts has identified six challenges that need to be carefully considered in this next context: (1) available…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Admission (School)
Talia Gerstle; Amanda Schmidt – Blueprint Labs, 2023
This publication summarizes an academic review paper on preschool effectiveness, "Lottery Evidence on the Impact of Preschool in the United States: A Review and Meta-Analysis" by Jesse Bruhn and Emily Emick. The 44 papers summarized fall into three categories: studies of three model preschool programs begun in the 1960s known as…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Curriculum, Preschool Education, Preschool Evaluation
American Association of State Colleges and Universities, 2023
America's regional comprehensive public institutions of higher education (American Association of State Colleges and Universities institutions, AASCU) serve a unique role as the portal through which so many of the students and much of the nation's future workforce gain the skills needed to face the economic challenges of the 21st century. In…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Student Financial Aid, Access to Education, Accountability
Unterman, Rebecca – MDRC, 2018
This post is one in a series highlighting MDRC's methodological work. In the past decade, rapid growth in the number of charter schools and school district choice systems has provided education researchers with exciting opportunities to use naturally occurring pockets of randomization to rigorously study the effects of policy-relevant education…
Descriptors: Selective Admission, Competitive Selection, Admission (School), Charter Schools
Glazerman, Steven; Dotter, Dallas – Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 2016
This brief describes (1) what parents look for when they choose a school and (2) how these preferences affect the sorting of students into schools under different school-choice policies. The findings are based on lists of preferred schools submitted by over 20,000 applicants to a citywide lottery for more than 100 traditional and charter public…
Descriptors: School Choice, Charter Schools, Simulation, Selective Admission
New Mexico Higher Education Department, 2016
The New Mexico Higher Education Department strives to bring leadership, guidance, and assistance to New Mexico's higher education stakeholders. The HED is committed to promoting best practices, institutional fiscal responsibility, and student achievement. Everything the agency does is through the lens of supporting New Mexico's higher education…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Annual Reports, Educational Improvement, Education Work Relationship