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Download full textYatsko, Sarah; Lake, Robin; Nelson, Elizabeth Cooley; Bowen, Melissa – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2012
In 2009, the federal government committed over $3 billion nationwide to help states and districts turn around their worst-performing schools. The U.S. Department of Education intended for the School Improvement Grants (SIGs) to spur dramatic change. This report looks at the results of a field study of the first-year implementation of those grants…
Descriptors: Evidence, Academic Achievement, School Districts, Educational Change
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Direct linkWachen, John; Jenkins, Davis; Van Noy, Michelle – Community College Review, 2011
The federal government and private foundations for education have established postsecondary credential completion as a national imperative. Washington State's Integrated Basic Education and Skills Training (I-BEST) model was developed to increase the rate at which basic skills students advance to and succeed in college-level occupational programs,…
Descriptors: Evidence, Technical Education, Basic Skills, Career Education
Jenkins, Davis; Wachen, John; Kerrigan, Monica Reid; Mayer, Alexander K. – Community College Research Center, Columbia University, 2012
In 2006, six community and technical colleges in Washington State joined the innovative national reform initiative called Achieving the Dream (ATD). This report describes the progress each college made in implementing ATD's "culture of evidence" principles for institutional improvement, examines strategies implemented by the colleges to…
Descriptors: Evidence, Outcomes of Education, Technical Institutes, Community Colleges
