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Afterschool Alliance, 2024
Afterschool and summer programs offer a multitude of benefits for students and families across the nation, from providing tangible resources like wraparound services to connecting students with supportive adults and peers. These programs not only deliver immediate benefits, but research also shows they bear long-term positive effects on students'…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Summer Programs, Student Attitudes, Sense of Community
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Marchand, Joseph; Weber, Jeremy G. – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2020
Whether improved local economic conditions lead to better student outcomes is theoretically ambiguous and will depend on how schools use additional revenues and how students and teachers respond to rising private sector wages. The Texas boom in shale oil and gas drilling, with its large and localized effects on wages and the tax base, provides a…
Descriptors: Economic Impact, Fuels, Natural Resources, School Districts
Zamarripa, Linda – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Mastering mathematics has become more important than ever before in the United States. Students with a strong background in mathematics have an advantage over those students who struggle, when competing for jobs. In the job market, workers who have a strong mathematics and science background are more likely to be employed and earn more than those…
Descriptors: High Schools, Mathematics Achievement, Teaching Experience, Secondary School Mathematics
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Bingham, Wayne; Jones, Timothy B.; Jackson, Sherion H. – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2007
This research examined the level of equity of the public school funding system in Texas that in September of 2004 was held to be unconstitutional by a state district judge. The study also introduces a mechanism, referred to as the Revenue-to-Population Index or RTP Index, which compares funding equity within the unconstitutional system among 1031…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Financial Support, Educational Equity (Finance), Public Schools