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Ben R. Backes; James E. Cowan; Dan D. Goldhaber; Zeyu Jin; Roddy J. Theobald – Grantee Submission, 2025
Graduates of special education teacher education programs can teach in a range of special education settings, raising the potential that their training can occur in very different settings than where they find their first jobs. We follow 263 completers of Moderate Disabilities programs in Massachusetts from their field placements to their…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Special Education Teachers, Student Teaching, Student Placement
Ben Backes; James Cowan; Dan Goldhaber; Zeyu Jin; Roddy Theobald – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2024
Graduates of special education teacher education programs can teach in a range of special education settings, raising the potential that their training can occur in very different settings than where they find their first jobs. We follow 263 completers of Moderate Disabilities programs in Massachusetts from their field placements to their…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Special Education Teachers, Student Teaching, Student Placement
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Schifter, Laura A. – Exceptional Children, 2016
This study examined when students with disabilities graduated high school and how graduation patterns differed for students based on selected demographic and educational factors. Utilizing statewide data on students with disabilities from Massachusetts from 2005 through 2012, the author conducted discrete-time survival analysis to estimate the…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Graduation, High School Graduates, Demography
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Lauderdale-Littin, Stacy; Howell, Erica; Blacher, Jan – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2013
This study examined relationships among behavior problems, social skills, and educational placement within a sample of children with autism spectrum disorder or ASD in public (mean age 7) and non-public (mean age 8) school settings (n = 56). Parent and teacher agreement on child characteristics ratings tended to be similar while differences…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Student Placement, Public Schools
Winders, Mike; Bisk, Richard – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2014
The number of incoming college students who require development mathematics coursework is a national problem. This is an enormous area of concern for a number of reasons--such as the monetary cost to students who must take courses for which they are not granted credit, and colleges and universities who must pay instructors to teach such courses.…
Descriptors: College Students, Developmental Programs, Remedial Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction
Bradbury, Katharine; Burke, Mary A.; Triest, Robert K. – Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 2013
Foreclosures have well-documented adverse consequences for families living in or owning properties undergoing foreclosure and on surrounding neighborhoods, but they may also have other costs. This policy brief summarizes our research on the impact of mortgage foreclosures on academic performance among Boston public school students. The data show…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Public Schools, Standardized Tests, Economic Impact
Bradbury, Katharine; Burke, Mary A.; Triest, Robert K. – Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 2013
Although the recent wave of mortgage foreclosures has clearly been accompanied by economic hardship, relatively little research has examined how foreclosures affect the academic performance of students. This paper investigates the relationship between mortgage foreclosures and the academic performance of students using a unique dataset that…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Academic Achievement, Housing, Debt (Financial)