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National Institute of Food and Agriculture, 2024
The Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP), the nation's first federal nutrition education program for low-income families and youths, remains at the forefront of providing nutrition education to improve the lives of historically underserved populations. EFNEP contributes to food and nutrition security as program families and youths…
Descriptors: Food, Nutrition, Low Income Groups, Nutrition Instruction
Hamidu, Maria – Wisconsin Policy Forum, 2023
Concerns over the teaching workforce have been rising across Wisconsin in recent years, particularly since the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic. A series of Forum reports have raised warning flags about declining graduates from schools of education, record turnover among state and local government employees, and the rising use of emergency K-12…
Descriptors: Faculty Mobility, Labor Turnover, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education
Schochet, Owen; Li, Ann; Del Grosso, Patricia; Aikens, Nikki; Atkins-Burnett, Sally; Porter, Toni; Bromer, Juliet – Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 2022
In 2019, more than 5 million providers cared for one or more children either in their own home or in a child's home. Home-based child care (HBCC) providers are a varied group that includes both listed providers and unlisted providers who do and do not receive payment. HBCC is especially prevalent in communities of color, communities with high…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Caregivers, Family Environment, Incidence
Shaw-Amoah, Anna; Lapp, David; Kim, Dae – Research for Action, 2020
The scarcity of teachers of color (TOCs) in Pennsylvania has been well-documented. In 2018, Research for Action (RFA) reviewed the literature on the benefits of teachers of color for all students and highlighted barriers, strategies, and initiatives in "Patching the Leaky Pipeline: Recruiting and Retaining Teachers of Color in…
Descriptors: Diversity (Faculty), Disproportionate Representation, Public School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education
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Erciulescu, Andreea; Ren, Weijia; Li, Jianzhu; Mohadjer, Leyla; Fay, Robert – National Center for Education Statistics, 2022
The Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) is a multicycle survey of adult skills and competencies sponsored by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The survey examines a range of basic skills in the information age and assesses these adult skills consistently across participating…
Descriptors: Adults, International Assessment, Competence, Basic Skills
Hockenberry, Sarah – Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 2022
The Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement (CJRP) is administered biennially and collects information from secure and non-secure residential placement facilities that hold youth who were charged with or adjudicated for law violations. These law violations encompass both delinquency offenses and status offenses. Unless noted otherwise, this…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Residential Programs, Delinquency, Adolescents
Alliance for Excellent Education, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic caused a near-total shutdown of the U.S. school system, forcing more than 55 million students to transition to home-based remote learning practically overnight. In most cases, that meant logging in to online classes and accessing lessons and assignments through a home internet connection. Sadly, that was not an option for…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
Oregon Department of Education, 2024
The Oregon Statewide Report Card is an annual publication required by law (ORS 329.115), which reports on the state of Oregon's public schools. The purpose of the Statewide Report Card is to monitor trends among school districts and Oregon's progress toward achieving the goals referred to in ORS 329.015. This report also provides a tool that makes…
Descriptors: Public Schools, School Districts, Educational Trends, State Legislation
Hockenberry, Sarah; Sladky, Anthony – Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 2020
In October 2018, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) administered the 10th Juvenile Residential Facility Census (JRFC). JRFC began in 2000 with data collections occurring every other year. JRFC routinely collects data on how facilities operate and the services they provide. It includes questions on facility ownership…
Descriptors: Juvenile Justice, Delinquency, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions
Indiana Commission for Higher Education, 2021
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Indiana's college completion rates mostly held steady and even improved overall for the class of 2020. This 2021 College Completion Report will show: (1) How Indiana's college graduates are faring at completing their schooling on time (within two years for a long-term certificate or associate degree or four…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, College Graduates, Higher Education, Time to Degree
Sisaket, Lesley – Minnesota Office of Higher Education, 2022
In 2015, the Minnesota Legislature enacted a goal that 70% of Minnesota adults (ages 25-44) will have attained a postsecondary certificate or degree by 2025. In recognition of existing gaps in attainment, the law also sets 30% and 50% educational attainment benchmarks for all races and ethnicities as interim goals. Current estimates show that…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Educational Objectives, Postsecondary Education, Adults
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Miron, Gary; Gulosino, Charisse; Shank, Christopher; Elgeberi, Najat; Davidson, Caryn; Hernandez De Alvarez, Fanny; Jurdzy, Brandy; Larsen, Judith; Pham, Dung; Ruder, Kelly; Urdapilleta, Laura; Urschel, Jessica – Commercialism in Education Research Unit, 2021
The past two decades have marked tremendous growth in the number of public schools that are privately operated and, in a growing number of cases, also privately owned. Known as education management organizations (EMOs), these are private companies or organizations that are rapidly expanding their market shares of the public education sector,…
Descriptors: School Administration, Public Schools, Charter Schools, Nonprofit Organizations
McChesney, Jasper; Bichsel, Jacqueline – College and University Professional Association for Human Resources, 2020
America's workforce is aging, and popular press articles have warned of a "silver tsunami" of retirements, particularly among the baby boomer generation. Dramatic headlines aside, even gradual changes in workforce demographics will affect hiring, budgeting, training, and more. Higher education tenure-track faculty may be uniquely…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Aging (Individuals), Tenure, Teacher Characteristics
Indiana Commission for Higher Education, 2020
Increasing Indiana's college completion rates is the most important goal for the Indiana Commission for Higher Education, as completion is the most powerful tool to measure success. To achieve economic security or success in today's economy, education beyond high school is vital and ongoing, as most new jobs created today require some form of…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, College Graduates, Higher Education, Graduation Rate
Australian Government Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency, 2016
Since the inception of the Australian Government Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) in January 2012, 106 organisations have submitted or indicated their intention to submit applications for initial registration to TEQSA. Of those who have submitted applications, 2 have been rejected, 10 have subsequently been withdrawn by the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Universities, Group Membership
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