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Katrina R. Woodworth; Nicole L. Arshan; Haiwen Wang – SRI Education, a Division of SRI International, 2024
Today's college and career-ready standards emphasize developing students' ability to interpret and analyze complex texts and to assert and defend claims relating to those texts in extended pieces of writing. By providing secondary English language arts teachers with professional development and instructional materials, the UC Irvine Writing…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Secondary School Teachers, Faculty Development, College School Cooperation
Stacy B. Ehrlich Loewe; Cristina Carrazza; Sarah Kabourek; Molly F. Gordon; Marc W. Hernandez – NORC at the University of Chicago, 2024
Tempe PRE was designed as a high-quality preschool program to create more opportunity for children in Tempe. In the 2021-2022 school year, NORC at the University of Chicago conducted an evaluation of Tempe PRE to understand how the program was being implemented and its effects on children and families. They also collected students' outcome data…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Federal Aid, Educational Quality, Program Evaluation
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Kerna, Ashley; Frisvold, George; Jacobs, Laurel; Farrell, Vanessa A.; Houtkooper, Linda; Misner, Scottie – Journal of Extension, 2015
Many Extension programs are turning to the input-output software IMPLAN to demonstrate economic impacts. IMPLAN is a powerful tool that can be used to estimate the total economic activity associated with an industry, event, or policy. One possible application, therefore, is to use program spending data to estimate the economic effects of…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Input Output Analysis, Economic Impact, Economic Development
Korb, Micah Benjamin – ProQuest LLC, 2014
In 2009 the U.S. Department of Education announced the requirements and selection criteria for the monies attached to the Race to the Top Fund. The monies attached to this competition were awarded during phase one, phase two, and phase three. This casual comparative study examined the impact of the Race to the Top federal education competition on…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs
West Comprehensive Center at WestEd, 2015
Title VII provides funding for the education of American Indian/Alaska Native students based on a formula grant available to school districts, charter schools, and local education agencies (LEAs). This report explores why some eligible schools and districts do not apply for federal Title VII, potentially resulting in American Indian/Alaska Native…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Alaska Natives, Federal Aid, Federal Programs
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Crane, Eric W.; Barrat, Vanessa X.; Huang, Min – Regional Educational Laboratory West, 2011
This technical brief responds to an Arizona Department of Education request to study academic performance in schools receiving funding through the federal Title I compensatory education program, the section of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 governing resources for schools and districts serving disadvantaged populations. The brief describes…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Schools, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation, Educational Improvement
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Greenes, Carole; Wolfe, Susan; Weight, Stephanie; Cavanagh, Mary; Zehring, Julie – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2011
With funding from NSF, the Prime the Pipeline Project (P[cube]) is responding to the need to strengthen the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) pipeline from high school to college by developing and evaluating the scientific village strategy and the culture it creates. The scientific village, a community of high school…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Undergraduate Students, High School Students, Advanced Courses
Afterschool Alliance, 2009
Each day in America, millions of kids go home to an empty house after school. In recent years, the growth of quality, affordable afterschool programs has begun to offer positive alternatives to the parents of these children. In 2009, the Afterschool Alliance contracted with RTi, a market research firm, to conduct a household survey of nearly…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Surveys, Barriers, Supply and Demand
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1987
The high cost of providing medical care through Medicaid has prompted the federal government to examine ways to constrain costs. One experiment to limit Medicaid costs is Arizona's Health Care Cost Containment System, under which the state contracts with prepaid health plans to provide comprehensive medical care for a set monthly fee per patient.…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Federal Aid, Health Insurance, Medical Services
Stemmler, Peggy; Naimark, Dana Wolfe – 2000
The Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in Arizona is called KidsCare. This report provides a portrait of children's health coverage in the state after a year of operation of KidsCare. Following an executive summary, the first section of the report presents overall statistics and trends in children's health coverage. The second section…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Child Health, Children, Health Care Costs