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Effie Goodman McMillian – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Present-day educational inequities are the result of systemic racism rooted in longstanding policies and practices. The move to achieve equity is not a new phenomenon; however, the desire to achieve educational equity has become more prevalent in national conversations. Conversations about educational equity have trickled down to the school…
Descriptors: School Districts, Political Attitudes, Decision Making, Equal Education
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Callanan, Meg; Farias, Javiera Cartagena; Hudson, Ruth; Greaves, Ellen – Education Endowment Foundation, 2017
The Achieve Together Bournemouth Partnership ("the Partnership") was a pilot collaboration between Teach First, Teaching Leaders, and The Future Leaders Trust. It was a new initiative that aimed to work with primary and secondary schools and the wider community in two socially deprived areas of Bournemouth (Boscombe and West Howe) to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education, Program Evaluation, Pilot Projects
Andrews, Melissa; Jensen, Mishan; Christian, Cinda – Online Submission, 2019
The Creative Learning Initiative (CLI) is a community-wide effort to bring creative learning and the arts to each and every student in Austin. Lead by MINDPOP, the City of Austin, and Austin Independent School District (AISD), CLI designs systematic and sustainable programs that integrate creativity, creative teaching strategies, and the arts with…
Descriptors: School Districts, Creative Teaching, Creativity, Access to Education
Andrews, Melissa; Jensen, Mishan; Christian, Cinda; Williams, Holly – Online Submission, 2019
The Creative Learning Initiative (CLI) is a community-wide effort to bring creative learning and the arts to each and every student in Austin. Lead by MINDPOP, the City of Austin, and Austin Independent School District (AISD), CLI designs systematic and sustainable programs that integrate creativity, creative teaching strategies, and the arts with…
Descriptors: School Districts, Creative Teaching, Creativity, Access to Education
Mathews, Jay; Mathews, Linda – School Administrator, 2012
International Baccalaureate (IB) programs are turning up in a diverse mix of school districts, an attempt to add rigor and depth. For rich and for poor, for big schools and small ones, IB has become a way to add rigor and depth to public school curricula. But each school district has adapted IB for its own needs. Some use it in all schools for all…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, School Districts, Program Implementation, Competition
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Heinrich, Carolyn J.; Burch, Patricia; Good, Annalee; Acosta, Rudy; Cheng, Huiping; Dillender, Marcus; Kirshbaum, Christi; Nisar, Hiren; Stewart, Mary – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2014
School districts are spending millions on tutoring outside regular school day hours for economically and academically disadvantaged students in need of extra academic assistance. Under No Child Left Behind (NCLB), parents of children in persistently low-performing schools were allowed to choose their child's tutoring provider, and together with…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Instructional Improvement, Program Implementation, After School Education
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Hallett, Ronald E.; Skrla, Linda; Low, Justin – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2015
School districts play a key role in identifying, supporting, and educating homeless students. This qualitative case study of a school district in Northern California illustrates how district leadership serves as a bridge between federal policy and local school sites. In this case study, federal funding funneled through the state served as the…
Descriptors: School Districts, Homeless People, Disadvantaged Youth, At Risk Students
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Nordstrum, Lee E. – Journal of Education Policy, 2012
In 2009, the South African Department of Education extended tuition fee abolition to schools serving the poorest 60% of students, increased from 40% in 2007. This policy intends to increase access to and longevity in school for the poorest households by removing fees as a barrier and replacing private revenue with increased state funds. Despite…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Finance, Access to Education
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Rickard, Nikki S.; Bambrick, Caroline J.; Gill, Anneliese – International Journal of Music Education, 2012
Previous studies demonstrate that private music training has benefits which may transfer to other domains, including verbal memory, intelligence and self-esteem. The current paper reports on the impact of an increase in school-based music training on a range of cognitive and psychosocial measures for 10-13-year-olds in two independent studies. In…
Descriptors: Intelligence, International Schools, Disadvantaged Schools, Music
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Nudzor, Hope Pius – Journal of Educational Change, 2012
In most parts of the world today, the goal of providing all children with free and Universal Primary Education (UPE) has received broad national and international support and some educational systems have evolved from predominantly "fee-charging" towards "fee-free" status in recent times. In Ghana, for example, the endorsement…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Elementary Education, Problems
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Bancroft, Kim – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2010
As mandated by No Child Left Behind, schools must find ways to improve test scores. How do benchmark tests fare as a means of informing teachers in order to raise achievement for low-income students? This study of English language arts instruction at a low-income high school investigates the administration's use of standardized benchmark…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Benchmarking, Program Implementation, Language Arts
Milstein, Mindy R.; Shields, Julie S. – Communique, 2010
What are school staff to do when inspiration strikes but the funding to carry out a vision is lacking? This was the dilemma faced by the staff of the Emotional Disability Services Unit (ED Unit) in the Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) in Maryland. The ED Unit serves 350 students who experience significant emotional challenges that impair…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Emotional Intelligence, Middle Schools, Substance Abuse
Ransford-Kaldon, Carolyn; Flynt, E. Sutton; Ross, Cristin – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2011
The purpose of this study was twofold: (1) to determine the efficacy of the Leveled Literacy Intervention program (LLI) in increasing reading achievement for K-2 students and (2) to examine LLI program implementation fidelity. This study evaluated LLI in two U.S. school districts and used a mixed-method design to address the following key research…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Economically Disadvantaged, Academic Achievement, Program Implementation
Kern, Angela Haywood – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Culturally/linguistically diverse and economically disadvantaged students are under-represented in gifted education programs. White middle-class children tend to be afforded the opportunity of gifted education services. This study analyzed Ashe City Schools' journey to implement Project U-STARS-PLUS in order to identify and serve…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, School Districts, Economically Disadvantaged, Standardized Tests
Blank, Rolf K. – Council of Chief State School Officers, 2011
A critical state-level indicator of progress in public education is student achievement annual performance and change over time. The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) has been very active in tracking and reporting on student achievement results and using state assessment scores and other data to analyze achievement trends. A central…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Federal Legislation, Economically Disadvantaged, Academic Achievement
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