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Turner, Lavita McMath – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2016
This chapter describes the process and challenges of implementing a civic engagement graduation requirement at Kingsborough Community College.
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Graduation Requirements, Program Implementation, Citizen Participation
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Sussman, Ari – Teachers College Record, 2015
This chapter recounts the first 3 years of the Student Voice Collaborative (SVC) in New York City, a district supported student leadership initiative that engages high school aged youth in school reform work at school and district levels. Based on his experiences developing and running the SVC, the author identifies nine design and implementation…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Educational Improvement, School Effectiveness, Student Attitudes
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Silva, Mary Lourdes; Adams Delaney, Susan; Cochran, Jolene; Jackson, Ruth; Olivares, Cory – International Journal of ePortfolio, 2015
The majority of research on the implementation of ePortfolios focuses on curriculum, faculty development, or student buy-in. When ePortfolio systems have been described in technical terms, the focus has been on the functionality, affordances, and limitations of ePortfolio systems (e.g., TaskStream, LiveText), free web tools (e.g., Google Docs),…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Electronic Publishing, Institutional Evaluation, Core Curriculum
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Darrow, Catherine L. – Early Education and Development, 2013
A quantifiable measure of teachers' intervention fidelity when delivering curriculum-based interventions allows researchers to interpret the effectiveness of the curricula under scrutiny. Fidelity measures, however, must accurately represent the critical components of an intervention to confirm that the intervention was delivered as intended and…
Descriptors: Fidelity, Measures (Individuals), Intervention, Researchers
Taylor, Jason L.; Bragg, Debra D. – Office of Community College Research and Leadership, 2015
In 2012, five foundations launched the Credit When Its Due (CWID) initiative that was "designed to encourage partnerships of community colleges and universities to significantly expand programs that award associate degrees to transfer students when the student completes the requirements for the associate degree while pursuing a bachelor's…
Descriptors: Transfer Programs, Transfer Policy, College Transfer Students, Associate Degrees
McEvoy, Cathleen K. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
School psychologists throughout New York State were surveyed regarding their schools' policies to include parents in the special education eligibility process related to legal mandates and best practices. Differences were found in the implementation of legal mandates compared to implementation of best practices. Location differences were…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, School Policy, School Psychologists, Special Education
Grantmakers for Education, 2012
Since the mid-1990s, constituency building and advocacy for better public education have grown steadily in New York City. "Working Together to Achieve Greater Impact" explores how that growth was fueled by the Donors' Education Collaborative of New York, which pools its members' financial resources and expertise to advance shared…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Program Implementation, Donors, Public Education
Perkins, Susan C. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
As global demands for workers in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields persist, there are increased opportunities for historically underrepresented African-American and Latino youth to fill STEM career pipelines. African-American and Latino youth have long faced disproportionately high unemployment rates. Joblessness has been…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Career Development, Disproportionate Representation, African American Students
Gaubert, Jennifer Miller; Knox, Virginia; Alderson, Desiree Principe; Dalton, Christopher; Fletcher, Kate; McCormick, Meghan – MDRC, 2010
This report presents early implementation and operational lessons from the Supporting Healthy Marriage (SHM) evaluation. Funded by the Administration for Children and Families, SHM uses a rigorous research design to test the effectiveness of a new approach to improving outcomes for low-income children: strengthening the marriages and relationships…
Descriptors: Marriage, Low Income Groups, Parents, Family Programs
National Endowment for the Arts, 2009
The Big Read evaluation included a series of 35 case studies designed to gather more in-depth information on the program's implementation and impact. The case studies gave readers a valuable first-hand look at The Big Read in context. Both formal and informal interviews, focus groups, attendance at a wide range of events--all showed how…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, National Programs, Case Studies, Program Implementation
Mielke, Monica; LaFleur, Jennifer; Butler, Alisha; Sanzone, Joy – Policy Studies Associates, Inc., 2012
In 2006 4-H National Headquarters at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and National 4-H Council introduced a new initiative aimed at increasing the number and quality of science, engineering, and technology programs that 4-H offers around the country, and increasing the number of youth involved in these programs. By engaging youth in informal…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Student Attitudes, Science Interests, Science Careers
Finnigan, Kara S.; Stewart, Tricia J. – National Center on School Choice, Vanderbilt University (NJ1), 2009
This study examines one of the longest standing interdistrict choice programs in the country: Rochester, New York's Urban-Suburban Interdistrict Transfer Program (USITP). Based upon quantitative and qualitative data, including analysis of approximately forty years of program records, review of program documents and newspaper articles, and…
Descriptors: Suburban Schools, Urban Schools, School Districts, School Choice
Russell, Christina A.; Mielke, Monica B.; Reisner, Elizabeth R. – Policy Studies Associates, Inc., 2009
In September 2005, the New York City Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) launched the Out-of-School Time Programs for Youth (OST) initiative to provide young people throughout New York City with access to high-quality programming after school, on holidays, and during the summer at no cost to their families. Working closely with…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Program Implementation, Youth Programs, Agency Cooperation
McCombs, Jennifer Sloan; Orr, Nate; Bodilly, Susan J.; Naftel, Scott; Constant, Louay; Scherer, Ethan; Gershwin, Daniel – RAND Corporation, 2010
High-quality out-of-school-time (OST) programs have a positive effect on youth development, but many cities have found it difficult to address the challenges of expanding and improving the quality of programs offered to underserved and high-need students. In response, The Wallace Foundation sponsored an initiative to help five cities increase…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Management Information Systems, Financial Support, Data
Universal, Ted; And Others – 1990
This document is intended to provide school districts with information and ideas to help them develop districtwide philosophies concerning congruent planning, organize for efficient program management, create time for teachers to plan collaboratively for instruction, and develop documentation to monitor student progress. To enlist teacher support…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Participative Decision Making, Planning, Program Implementation
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