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Wang, Jianjun; Sun, Jinping – Online Submission, 2018
Early childhood education programs play an important role in child family-to-school transition. In 1998, California voters passed Proposition 10, the California Children and Families Act, which levied a 50-cent tax on each pack of cigarettes and other tobacco products to finance programs for children ages 0-5. In less than two decades, First 5…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Program Effectiveness, Early Childhood Education, School Taxes
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Ginsberg, Alice; Gasman, Marybeth; Samayoa, Andrés Castro – Teacher Educator, 2018
This paper provides a deep dive case study of the California Mini-Corps Program within the context of an Hispanic Serving Institution.
Descriptors: State Programs, Case Studies, Hispanic Americans, Mixed Methods Research
Huang, Denise; Dietel, Ronald – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2011
The number of students attending afterschool programs has skyrocketed in recent years, currently serving an estimated 8.4 million children (Afterschool Alliance, 2009). Consequently, the demand for high quality afterschool programs, and to learn from successful ones, has never been greater. This "Making Afterschool Programs Better"…
Descriptors: Enrichment Activities, After School Programs, Politics of Education, Educational Policy
Excelencia in Education (NJ1), 2012
In 2009, Excelencia in Education launched the Ensuring America's Future initiative to inform, organize, and engage leaders in a tactical plan to increase Latino college completion. An executive summary of Latino College Completion in 50 states synthesizes information on 50 state factsheets and builds on the national benchmarking guide. Each…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Achievement Gap, Benchmarking