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Lawrence, Rebecca Ann; Steiner, Elizabeth D.; Holmes, Pierrce; Schwartz, Heather L.; Doan, Sy – RAND Corporation, 2023
This report is the fourth in a series describing the RAND Corporation's evaluation of the two Delaware weighted funding programs for disadvantaged K-12 schools spanning the 2019-2020 to 2021-2022 school years: Opportunity Funding and the Student Success Block Grant. The authors drew on annual surveys of Delaware local education agencies (LEAs)…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Educational Finance, Elementary Schools, Secondary Schools
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Chetty, Rajendra – Literacy, 2019
This article analyses the experiences of teachers of literacy working in underprivileged communities in the Western Cape, South Africa. The purpose is to provide teachers in poorly resourced schools within economically deprived areas an opportunity to voice their experiences of teaching literacy. The article is based on an empirical study using…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Foreign Countries, Disadvantaged Schools, Economically Disadvantaged
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Ghiso, Maria Paula – Teachers College Record, 2016
Background: The learning of students from (im)migrant backgrounds has long been a consideration for the field of education. The "transnational" turn in research has brought to the forefront the need to account for students' language and literacy practices as situated within multiple national affiliations, fluid migration histories,…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Immigrants, Cultural Differences, Literacy