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Rickles, Jordan; Yang, Rui; Clements, Peggy; de los Reyes, Iliana Brodziak; Heppen, Jessica – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2020
Use of online credit recovery is a growing trend across the country, with the hope that expanding credit recovery options through online courses will help students get back on track toward graduation (e.g., Atkins, Brown, & Hammond, 2007; Gemin, Pape, Vashaw, & Watson, 2015). But expanded use of online credit recovery for high school…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Required Courses, Credits, High School Students
Gardner, Emmett C. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This qualitative study explores perceptions of a dropout recovery program implemented in two high schools in Waterway School District from the perspectives of program facilitators, school administrators, and former student participants. Individual interviews, focus group interviews, and an online questionnaire are the sources of data for the…
Descriptors: Student Attrition, School Districts, Qualitative Research, Dropouts
Office of Assessment, Research, and Data Analysis, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2020
This report examines the implementation of the Securing Opportunities for Academic Recovery (SOAR) program that operated during the summer of 2020 at 31 schools. The program was designed to mitigate academic deficits that resulted from the shutdown of schools due to the Coronavirus pandemic. SOAR was implemented in two phases: Recovery and Regain.…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Summer Schools, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Mokher, Christine; Jacobson, Louis – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2016
There is a nationwide concern that too many students leave high school unprepared for college-level coursework and that students lack awareness of their level of preparation. Florida enacted Senate Bill 1908 creating a statewide program, the Florida College and Career Readiness Initiative (FCCRI), to reduce the need for postsecondary remediation.…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, State Legislation, Educational Legislation
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Clements, Margaret; Pazzaglia, Angela M.; Stafford, Erin – Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest, 2015
This "Stated Briefly" report is a companion piece that summarizes the results of another report of the same name. The purpose of the study conducted by REL Midwest in partnership with the Midwest Virtual Education Research Alliance was to develop and administer a survey to describe online course use in Iowa and Wisconsin brick-and-mortar…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Public Schools, State Surveys, Use Studies
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Belmont, Christopher – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2014
The purpose of this article is to provide evidence of how an integrated high school health, physical education, and wellness program can be implemented. In addition to describing the process used to develop and maintain this wellness curriculum, the article describes the content of the curriculum and how the teachers were able to capture and hold…
Descriptors: Wellness, Integrated Curriculum, Program Implementation, High Schools
Brown, Vickie McConnell – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Schools in the United States have struggled with graduation rates for nearly 140 years. School divisions are continuously searching for new and creative curriculums to address changing student needs. From the U.S. Department of Education to local school board members, educators are working to discover creative and accountable alternatives to…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Nontraditional Education, Graduation Rate, Dropout Prevention
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Bell, Tim; Andreae, Peter; Robins, Anthony – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2014
For many years computing in New Zealand schools was focused on teaching students how to use computers, and there was little opportunity for students to learn about programming and computer science as formal subjects. In this article we review a series of initiatives that occurred from 2007 to 2009 that led to programming and computer science being…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Science, Computer Science Education, Computer Literacy
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