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Cable, Kelly E.; Plucker, Jonathan A.; Spradlin, Terry E. – Center for Evaluation and Education Policy, Indiana University, 2009
The first public schools established in America were originally created with the intent to give all children access to an education. An equal education for all meant that a child's parentage and social standing did not, theoretically, dictate his or her future. Today the American public school system has greatly expanded and diverged from the once…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, Equal Education, Educational Policy, Institutional Characteristics
Education Commission of the States (NJ3), 2010
States, districts and schools are now being offered unprecedented opportunities to develop programs that will improve student performance and turn around underperforming schools. An understanding of how reducing chronic early absence helps those efforts will go a long way to assure that innovative school improvement policies and practices will be…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Educational Change, Educational Development, Educational Policy
Education Commission of the States (NJ3), 2010
This issue of "The Progress of Education Reform" summarizes recent research that may challenge conventional wisdom on how and where public resources for postsecondary education should be dedicated in an effort to increase college completion rates. Questions to be examined include: (1) How did changes in enrollments and the allocation of resources…
Descriptors: Expenditures, Higher Education, Community Colleges, Academic Persistence
Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement, 2007
Researchers, policymakers, and education leaders agree that teacher quality is a vital factor in improving student achievement. Therefore, it is imperative that states and districts recruit, develop, and retain high-quality teachers to ensure that all children are provided with an adequate education. No Child Left Behind (NCLB) initially required…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Development, Teacher Persistence, Teacher Effectiveness
Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement, 2007
A strategy used by many principals to gather classroom information and frame that interaction is the classroom "learning walk" or "walk-through." The walk-through can be defined as a brief, structured, nonevaluative classroom observation by the principal that is followed by a conversation between the principal and the teacher…
Descriptors: Observation, Instructional Leadership, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Development