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Bonnevie, Erika; Silesky, Melissa Dunn; Goldbarg, Jaclyn; Gudmundsen, Caitlyn; Fields, Megan; Smyser, Joe – Health Education Journal, 2023
Introduction: In the USA, syringe services programmes (SSPs) provide a range of harm reduction services and have numerous benefits for communities. However, stigma, misconceptions about SSPs and changing policies/legislation remain a challenge to effective implementation. This study reviews the implementation of two digital interventions,…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Social Media, Influences, Information Dissemination
Barnett, Elizabeth A.; Chavarín, Octaviano; Griffin, Sarah – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2018
Increasingly, state departments of education, school districts, and high schools are recognizing that many students graduate from high school underprepared for college-level coursework in mathematics. Many are referred to remedial education when they arrive at college. To help students become better prepared for college and avoid remedial courses…
Descriptors: College Readiness, High School Students, High School Graduates, Remedial Mathematics
Bos, Johannes M.; Graczewski, Cheryl; Dhillon, Sonica; Auchstetter, Amelia; Cassasanto-Ferro, Julia; Kitmitto, Sami – American Institutes for Research, 2022
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the implementation and impacts of the Building Assets, Reducing Risks (BARR) model in its first year of implementation in 66 schools across the U.S. and to document scale-up progress during the Investing in Innovation (i3) grant period (2017-2021). The impact evaluation included 21,529 9th grade students…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Grade 9, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Teachers
Jones, Dennis P. – National Center for Higher Education Management Systems, 2016
This is the third paper on the topic of outcomes-based funding written by Dennis Jones for Complete College America. The first paper, "Performance Funding: From Idea to Action" (ED535356), proposed a set of design and implementation principles to help states develop and implement their own outcomes-based funding models. The second paper,…
Descriptors: Financial Support, Funding Formulas, Program Effectiveness, Models
Office of Educational Technology, US Department of Education, 2016
Across the country, districts are choosing to #GoOpen and transitioning to the use of openly licensed educational resources to improve student learning in their schools. Openly licensed educational resources enable districts to reallocate significant funds currently spent on inflexible, static learning materials to resources and activities that…
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Program Implementation, Faculty Development, Resource Allocation
Advance CTE: State Leaders Connecting Learning to Work, 2019
From 2016 through 2019, 10 states strengthened their career readiness systems through the New Skills for Youth initiative (NSFY), a $75 million national investment by JPMorgan Chase & Co. to enhance state efforts to increase the number of learners across the country who are prepared for success in both college and career. As part of this…
Descriptors: Career Readiness, State Programs, Vocational Education, Equal Education
Mitchell, Susan – Preschool Development and Expansion Grant Technical Assistance (PDG TA), 2016
This document compiles information from multiple sources to offer readers a snapshot of Preschool Development and Expansion Grant (PDG) states' progress towards implementing a full comprehensive assessment system, as well as the tools they are using for each of the components.
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Evaluation, State Programs, Program Implementation
Nielson, Kate – NGA Center for Best Practices, 2014
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for K-12 English language arts/literacy and mathematics, released in 2010, have been adopted by 49 states and territories; the District of Columbia; and the U.S. Department of Defense schools, which serve the children of U.S. service members around the world. The widespread adoption of the CCSS is a major…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, State Policy, State Programs, Program Implementation
Lake, Robin; Posamentier, Jordan; Denice, Patrick; Hill, Paul – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2016
The portfolio strategy is a change strategy for public education in a district or metropolitan area. It is founded on the idea of re-missioning government agencies from rigid bureaucratic entities that mostly manage compliance requirements and interest group politics to a new role: overseeing performance and a diverse range of school choices…
Descriptors: School Districts, Program Implementation, Portfolios (Background Materials), Change Strategies
Jacques, Catherine – Center on Great Teachers and Leaders, 2013
States in the midst of implementing evaluation reforms face a common dilemma: how to ensure that all your districts are implementing quality educator evaluation systems while still providing them with the flexibility to design systems best suited to their own unique needs. One answer is to create an equivalency process (also known as an approval…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, State Standards, Program Implementation, Educational Change
Reform Support Network, 2012
Implementation of school turnaround strategies under School Improvement Grant and Race to the Top programs has provided States with a unique opportunity to rethink how to govern effectively and to organize their efforts to improve their lowest achieving schools. States have had to consider such issues as whether to provide support directly to…
Descriptors: State Policy, School Turnaround, Governance, Educational Policy
US Department of Education, 2012
"The Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965" (ESEA) has directed federal resources to schools for more than four decades to help ensure all children have equal access to a quality education. The most recent reauthorization--or congressional update to the law--occurred with the passage of the "No Child Left Behind Act of…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation
Fulton, Mary; Gianneschi, Matt; Blanco, Cheryl; DeMaria, Paolo – Education Commission of the States, 2014
The Developmental Strategies for College Readiness and Success Resource Guide was produced by the Education Commission of the States and the Southern Regional Education Board for the "Countdown to 2015: Developmental Strategies to Advance Readiness in the Common Core Era" convening held April 21-23, 2014 in Charlotte, North Carolina. The…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Success, Developmental Studies Programs, Guides
Ayers, Jeremy; Miller, M. – Alliance for Excellent Education, 2009
Although a growing body of research points to the critical need to foster reading, writing, speaking, and critical thinking skills for students in order to ensure their success in college, careers, and life, these efforts have tended to focus more on developing literacy skills in the early years, often ignoring secondary students. The outcome has…
Descriptors: Literacy, Reading Programs, Secondary School Students, Middle School Students
Corbett, Julie – Academic Development Institute, 2011
This report describes the use of Lead Turnaround Partners (LTPs) in the current School Improvement Grant (SIG) program and provides the results of document review, surveys, and interviews with eight State Education Agencies and seven Lead Turnaround Partner organizations. The study focuses on the implementation of the transformation and turnaround…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, School Turnaround, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
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