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Institute for Women's Policy Research, 2021
Head Start, the largest early learning program in the United States, provides free federally funded, high-quality early learning for children alongside wraparound supports for parents. Its mission includes helping families achieve self-sufficiency and economic security, such as by helping parents access and succeed in college and workforce…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Preschool Education, Disadvantaged Youth, College School Cooperation
Stokes, L.; Carroll, B.; Helms, J. V.; Mitchell, H.; Phillips, M.; St. John, M.; Tambe, P. – Inverness Research, 2018
This is the executive summary of the report, "Combining Researchers' and Practitioners' Intelligences for STEM Improvement: A Study of the Local Labs of the Research and Practice Collaboratory." The Research and Practice Collaboratory (RPC) supported projects in three states--California, Maine, and Washington--that had the function of…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Partnerships in Education, STEM Education, Educational Improvement
Stokes, Laura; Carroll, Becky; Helms, Jenifer V.; Mitchell, Heather; Phillips, Michelle; St. John, Mark; Tambe, Pamela – Inverness Research, 2018
The Research and Practice Collaboratory (RPC) supported projects in three states--California, Maine, and Washington--that had the function of serving as "Local Labs" for the RPC. While these labs worked independently on specific, local STEM improvement problems, RPC leaders held themselves to shared conjectures (cite) about their work…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Partnerships in Education, STEM Education, Educational Improvement
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Schindler, Holly S.; Fisher, Philip A.; Shonkoff, Jack P. – Child Development, 2017
This article presents a description of how an interdisciplinary network of academic researchers, community-based programs, parents, and state agencies have joined together to design, test, and scale a suite of innovative intervention strategies rooted in new knowledge about the biology of adversity. Through a process of cocreation, collective…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Educational Researchers, Educational Innovation, Interdisciplinary Approach
Kadlec, Alison; Shelton, Susan – Lumina Foundation for Education, 2015
This paper examines the key aspects of stakeholder engagement that can strengthen the design, implementation and sustainability of outcomes-based funding policies. We seek to help policymakers understand the prevailing starting-point attitudes of institutional stakeholders, primarily college and university administrators, faculty and staff, and…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Outcome Based Education, Stakeholders, Private Financial Support
National School-to-Work Opportunities Office, Washington, DC. – 1998
The National School-to-Work Office in collaboration with the National Association for Gifted Children, the Council for Exceptional Children, the Association for the Gifted, and the Council of State Directors of Programs for the Gifted have identified 11 gifted education/school-to-work (GT/STW) models that are either best practices or unique…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Exploration, Education Work Relationship, Elementary Secondary Education