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Kilgore, Wendy – American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO), 2023
The February 2023 60-Second Survey was conducted as part of AACRAO's ongoing search for insights into various administrative-support aspects of undergraduate-class scheduling. It was intended for individuals at institutions in the United States familiar with the practices and policies associated with building an undergraduate-class schedule and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, School Schedules, Classes (Groups of Students), Program Effectiveness
Emily Morton; Emma Dewil – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2024
Four-day school week (4DSW) schedules are growing rapidly across the U.S., with school districts citing perceived benefits to teacher recruitment and retention and student attendance as motivations for adopting the schedule. This study uses panel data from Colorado, one of the states with the highest prevalence of 4DSWs, to investigate the impacts…
Descriptors: School Schedules, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Persistence, Attendance Patterns
Emily Morton – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2022
Four-day school weeks have proliferated across the United States in recent years, reaching over 650 public school districts in 24 states as of 2019, but little is known about their implementation and there is no consensus on their effects on students. This study uses district level panel data from Oklahoma and a difference-in-differences research…
Descriptors: School Schedules, Late Adolescents, High School Students, Scores
Kraft, Matthew A.; Novicoff, Sarah – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2022
Policymakers have renewed calls for expanding instructional time in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. We establish a set of empirical facts about time in school, synthesize the literature on the causal effects of instructional time, and conduct a case study of time use in an urban district. On average, instructional time in U.S. public schools is…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Time Factors (Learning), School Schedules, Academic Achievement
Bill Kottenstette; Paola Paga – Colorado Department of Education, 2024
The Innovation Schools Act of 2008, § 22-32.5-102, et seq. C.R.S., was designed to provide a pathway for schools and districts to develop and implement innovative practices in a wide variety of areas and contexts to improve student outcomes. The Act provides a formal process that allows schools or groups of schools to make requests to their local…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, State Legislation, Educational Legislation, School District Autonomy
Kilgore, Wendy – American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO), 2022
Research from Complete College America has shown that the majority of students don't take enough credits to complete their degree on-time. While there are many factors that contribute to this, a student's ability to access the courses they need, when they need them plays a critical role in this discussion. Similarly, research has found that 65% of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, School Schedules, Educational Practices, Educational Policy
Bacher-Hicks, Andrew; Goodman, Joshua; Green, Jennifer Greif; Holt, Melissa K. – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2021
School bullying is widespread and has substantial social costs. One in five U.S. high school students report being bullied each school year and these students face greater risks of serious mental health challenges that extend into adulthood. As the COVID-19 pandemic forced most students into online education, many have worried that cyberbullying…
Descriptors: Bullying, COVID-19, Pandemics, Computer Mediated Communication
Rauscher, Emily; Burns, Ailish – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2021
Mixed evidence on the relationship between school closure and COVID-19 prevalence could reflect focus on large-scale levels of geography, limited ability to address endogeneity, and demographic variation. Using county-level CDC COVID-19 data through June 15, 2020, two matching strategies address potential heterogeneity: nearest geographic neighbor…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Correlation
Kottenstette, Bill; Paga, Paola – Colorado Department of Education, 2021
The Innovation Schools Act of 2008, § 22-32.5-102, et seq. C.R.S., was designed to provide a pathway for schools and districts to develop and implement innovative practices in a wide variety of areas and contexts to improve student outcomes. The Act provides a formal process that allows schools or groups of schools to make requests to their local…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, State Legislation, Educational Legislation, School District Autonomy
KatieAnn Juanico; Damian Wierzbicki – New Mexico Public Education Department, 2025
The Tribal Education Status Report (TESR), mandated by New Mexico's Indian Education Act, delivers a snapshot of efforts to support Native American students. The report highlights key initiatives, tracks educational trends, and proposes strategies to improve outcomes for these students across the state. The report breaks down New Mexico's public…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Tribally Controlled Education, American Indian Students, Educational Trends
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Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast & Islands, 2021
These are the appendixes for the report, "Characteristics of Approved Universal Prekindergarten Programs in Vermont in 2018/19." In an effort to increase access to high-quality prekindergarten (preK) programs for all young children in Vermont, the state passed universal preK legislation in 2014 (Act 166). All 3- and 4-year-olds have…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Equal Education, Validated Programs, Access to Education
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Taie, Soheyla; Lewis, Laurie – National Center for Education Statistics, 2022
The 2020-21 National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS) is a nationally representative survey of public and private K-12 schools, principals, and teachers in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. State-level data are also available for public schools, principals, and teachers. NTPS collects data on core topics including teacher and…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Private Schools, Institutional Characteristics, Elementary Secondary Education
RMC Research Corporation, 2021
The New Hampshire Department of Education's (NH DOE) Bureau of Career Development (BCD) realized that students experienced inequitable access to career and technical education (CTE), with evidence suggesting that geographic location of high schools and CTE centers played a key role in driving inequitable access. To better understand the specific…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Access to Education, Equal Education, Barriers
OECD Publishing, 2021
In 2020, 1.5 billion students in 188 countries/economies were locked out of their schools. Students everywhere have been faced with schools that are open one day and closed the next, causing massive disruption to their learning. With the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic still raging, many education systems are still struggling, and the situation is…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Change, Educational Trends
Public School Forum of North Carolina, 2024
The 2024 North Carolina Education Primer serves as a fact-based guide to public education in North Carolina. The Primer provides a comprehensive overview of how education policy is made, along with the current state of public education and the policies guiding it. The Forum produces this guide in order to inform current policymakers, candidates…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Public Education, Public Schools
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