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Ferguson, Daniel – Child Care & Early Education Research Connections, 2018
Many states with preschool programs, as well as other interested organizations and individuals, have undertaken research and evaluation efforts to improve their understanding of state preschool program implementation, results, and impacts. A 2004 review by Gilliam and Zigler examined state efforts to evaluate preschool programs from 1997 to 2003.…
Descriptors: State Programs, Preschool Education, Program Evaluation, Educational Quality
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Davidson, Elizabeth; Reback, Randall; Rockoff, Jonah; Schwartz, Heather L. – Educational Researcher, 2015
The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act required states to adopt accountability systems measuring student proficiency on state-administered exams. The federal legislation contained several strict requirements for NCLB implementation, such as escalating student proficiency targets that reach 100% proficiency by 2014. But it also gave states…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Educational Change, Accountability
Scott, Caitlin; Lasley, Nora – Education Northwest, 2014
In 2014, state and national leaders found many aspects of turning around America's low-performing schools even more daunting than in the previous year. These views were revealed in the Center on School Turnaround's (CST's) 2014 February/March survey of school turnaround leaders in State Education Agencies (SEA) and directors of the nation's…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, State Departments of Education, National Surveys, Technical Assistance
Scott, Caitlin; Lasley, Nora – Education Northwest, 2013
The goal of the Center on School Turnaround (CST) is to provide technical assistance on research-based practices and emerging promising practices that will increase the capacity of states to support their districts in turning around the lowest-performing schools. When the CST opened its doors in October 2012, it began its work by asking the…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, State Departments of Education, National Surveys, Technical Assistance
Lazara, Alex; Danaher, Joan; Kraus, Robert; Goode, Sue – National Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center (NECTAC), 2009
With the passage of P.L. 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975, now the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), and subsequent amendments, states and jurisdictions have made great strides in the provision of services to young children, ages 3 through 5 years, with disabilities. As of Fall 2007, America's…
Descriptors: State Programs, Disabilities, Preschool Children, Program Implementation
Druian, Greg – 1979
This second in a series of three papers on models for communicating and disseminating career education programs highlights selected state models. Focus is on four levels of dissemination: spread, exchange, choice, and implementation. First, several spread mechanisms utilized by states to disseminate career education information are covered. Then…
Descriptors: Career Education, Demonstration Programs, Guides, Information Centers
Sex Information and Education Council of the United States, Inc., New York, NY. – 1993
In 1991, the Sex Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) developed guidelines for presenting age appropriate, comprehensive sexuality education. This publication reports on a 1993 study, using these guidelines as a framework to assess sexuality education curricula and guidelines in the United States. A survey instrument was…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines, National Surveys
Sherman, Joel D. – 1981
Resting on the assertion that there is less criticism of the federal role in education in Australia than in the U.S., this paper attempts to identify the structures and practices associated with this less negative view and to determine if they are transferable to the U.S. The first section provides a contextual comparison for national education…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Decentralization, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
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O'Hair, Mary John; Reitzug, Ulrich C. – International Electronic Journal for Leadership in Learning, 2006
One-third of all U.S. school children attend school in rural settings. Rural schools are much poorer than urban America, with most of the poorest counties in the United States located in rural areas. Equity is a concern not only in terms of race, class, gender, disability, and sexual orientation, but also in terms of being geographically located…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Social Justice, Social Isolation, Rural Areas
Zepeda, Marlene; Varela, Frances; Morales, Alex – UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities, 2004
In 2003, the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) released a "Strategic Plan for Early Childhood Health." In recognition of the critical role states play in the development of early childhood initiatives and of the unique contributions that state Title V programs can make to these initiatives, the Bureau operationalized their…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Child Health, Young Children, Strategic Planning