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Odle, Taylor – Campaign for College Opportunity, 2023
This brief is part of the Affirming Equity, Ensuring Inclusion, and Empowering Action initiative. The brief describes the emerging practice of direct admissions, including how the practice has been designed, what outcomes it has produced, and considerations for policymakers debating the implementation of a direct admissions program in their state…
Descriptors: College Admission, Public Colleges, Barriers, Equal Education
Colleen Sommo; Austin Slaughter; Cyrette Saunier; Susan Scrivener; Kayla Warner – MDRC, 2023
Community colleges and broad-access universities (those with minimally selective admissions policies) provide an opportunity for students across the United States to attain postsecondary degrees and economic mobility. However, graduation rates from such colleges are often low and there are many obstacles that can be difficult to overcome,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Graduation Rate, College Students, Universities
Miller, Julia; Connell, Emma – Wilder Research, 2021
The MacPhail Center for Music Online School Partnerships program aims to increase access to high-quality music education for students who attend schools in Greater Minnesota in order to improve student interest and knowledge in music, and to improve or maintain positive school engagement and non-academic skills. The MacPhail Teaching Artists work…
Descriptors: Music Education, Musicians, Cooperative Planning, Online Courses
Connell, Emma; Miller, Julia – Wilder Research, 2020
The MacPhail Center for Music Online School Partnerships program aims to increase access to high-quality music education for students who attend schools in Greater Minnesota in order to improve student interest and knowledge in music, and to improve or maintain positive school engagement and non-academic skills. The MacPhail Teaching Artists work…
Descriptors: Music Education, Musicians, Cooperative Planning, Online Courses
Connell, Emma – Wilder Research, 2018
The MacPhail Center for Music Online School Partnerships program aims to increase access to high-quality music education for students who attend schools in Greater Minnesota in order to improve student interest and knowledge in music, and to improve or maintain positive school engagement and non-academic skills. The MacPhail Teaching Artists work…
Descriptors: Music Education, Musicians, Cooperative Planning, Online Courses
US Department of Education, 2014
The human brain develops rapidly in the first five years of life. High-quality early learning experiences can have a profound and lasting positive effect on young children during these years, setting the stage for success in kindergarten and beyond. This is especially true for young children with high needs who are from low-income families; who…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Federal Aid, Federal Programs
Minnesota State Council on Vocational Technical Education, St. Paul. – 1989
A Minnesota study examined how the federal law was implemented and federal funds were distributed under the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act of 1984 and the Job Training Partnership Act of 1982 (JTPA) and reported on the coordination between the two acts in the state for fiscal years 1986 and 1987. Information was gathered from the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Compliance (Legal), Disabilities, Disadvantaged Youth