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Sneed, Christopher T.; Upendram, Sreedhar; Cummings, Clint; Fox, Janet E. – Journal of Extension, 2023
Employment and training services offered through Extension are part of and continue a long tradition of policy-focused employment and job training. This paper chronicles the successes of UT Extension's work as a third-party partner in the delivery of workforce development programming geared toward individuals receiving Supplemental Nutrition…
Descriptors: Job Training, Labor Force Development, Federal Programs, Data
Zachary J. Hyder; Gresham D. Collom; J. Patrick Biddix – Texas Education Review, 2024
We utilize a difference-in-difference design to examine the effect of adopting a statewide promise program on the enrollment of community college students across socio-economic status. Limited by a small sample size for treated units, we find inferential evidence that the adoption of a state-wide, last-dollar promise program for community colleges…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, Unemployment, Public Colleges, Community Colleges
Roberts, Maxine T.; Squires, John – Education Commission of the States, 2021
Emerging practices in both K-12 and higher education hold great promise in the establishment of equity frameworks. The use of finely disaggregated data, the effort to track additional student groups, and related work, all help to establish policies and tools to monitor the impact of reform efforts to address inequities. State programs and…
Descriptors: Equal Education, State Programs, African American Students, Hispanic American Students
Whitfield, Christina – State Higher Education Executive Officers, 2017
Analysis of student-level data to inform policy and promote student success is a core function of executive higher education agencies. Postsecondary data systems have expanded their collection of data elements for use by policymakers, institutional staff and the general public. State coordinating and governing boards use these data systems for…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Educational Policy, Educational Innovation, Data
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; Fonseca, Manuela; LaFave, Allison – Preschool Development and Expansion Grant Technical Assistance (PDG TA), 2016
There is growing unease about suspension and expulsion of children at the preschool level. Preschoolers are expelled at three times the rate of K-12 students (Gilliam, 2005). Boys--particularly African-American boys--comprise a disproportionate number of these cases, a fact that has caused concern among parents, policymakers, and advocates alike.…
Descriptors: Suspension, Expulsion, Preschool Education, Preschool Children
Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2014
This document details Tennessee's participation in Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) programs and services from December 2013 through November 2014. Each member state receives a number of general services, plus access to targeted programs funded by grants, contracts and fees. Appropriations from member states support SREB's core operations…
Descriptors: Geographic Location, Regional Programs, College Readiness, Career Readiness
Lenth, Charles S.; Russell, Alene Bycer – 1991
This report provides background and linkages necessary to bring state-level experiences of reporting graduation rate statistics to bear in implementing the Student Right-to-Know Act particularly regarding the reporting of student persistence and graduation rates at institutions of higher education. Section I provides: (1) an overview of the extent…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Compliance (Legal), Data Analysis, Data Collection
Lowther, Deborah L.; Inan, Fethi A.; Strahl, J. Daniel; Ross, Steven M. – Educational Media International, 2008
The effectiveness of Tennessee EdTech Launch (TnETL), a statewide technology program designed to meet the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) mandate, was investigated in this matched treatment-control quasi-experimental study. The goal of the program was to provide full-time, on-site technology coaches to prepare teachers to create lessons that engage…
Descriptors: School Culture, Federal Legislation, Focus Groups, Academic Achievement
Tennessee State Dept. of Mental Health and Mental Retardation, Nashville. – 1973
Presented is the 5-year (1974-1979) plan of Tennessee by the State Division of Mental Retardation. Changes in philosophy and service delivery to mentally retarded (MR) persons are discussed in terms of definition, causes, classification, and training for employment. Ways of helping MR persons are described in relation to previous efforts and new…
Descriptors: Community Resources, Cooperative Programs, Exceptional Child Services, Institutions
Achilles, C. M.; And Others – 1995
During the 1989-90 school year, Tennessee established Project Challenge in 17 of Tennessee's poor and educationally low-performing counties. The program applied the results of Project STAR, a longitudinal experiment causally linking class size to student achievement. This paper presents findings of a study that evaluated Project Challenge by…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Achievement Rating, Class Size
Tennessee State Board of Regents, Nashville. – 1998
This document is the Tennessee Board of Regents' (TBR's) second annual report card, which details the accomplishments of the state's public higher education institutions in four areas: student learning, academic programs, faculty productivity, and financial accountability. An overall status report is provided for the entire state system, followed…
Descriptors: Accountability, Community Colleges, Continuing Education, Evaluation Criteria
Furtwengler, Carol; And Others – 1986
The Tennessee Career Ladder Program is a statewide evaluation system designed to pay teachers for teaching well. The system is based on a set of objectives called Domains of Competence, which are subdivided into Indicators. Early in the design of the system, it was decided to use multiple data sources, including a variety of instruments, to assess…
Descriptors: Career Ladders, Classroom Observation Techniques, Data Collection, Elementary Secondary Education
Smith, Mark K., Ed.; And Others – 1977
Selected information is displayed in the form of charts, tables, and graphs about: (1) the State Student Incentive Grant (SSIG) program and other state-level student financial assistance programs; (2) the primary state agency or organization responsible for administering these programs; and (3) the general state characteristics relating to student…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Consumer Protection, Demography, Educational Finance
Tennessee Higher Education Commission, Nashville. – 1993
This is the third annual report on Tennessee's progress toward meeting statewide higher education goals delineated in the 1989 "Tennessee Challenge 2000" program. The report outlines the six goals, specific benchmarks for each goal, and the progress toward such goals and benchmarks accomplished over the last several years. The goals…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Benchmarking, College Admission, College Faculty
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