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Choate, Kathryn; Goldhaber, Dan; Theobald, Roddy – Phi Delta Kappan, 2021
COVID-19 profoundly affected teacher preparation during the 2019-20 school year. Based on survey responses from nearly all Washington state teacher education programs (TEPs), Kathryn Choate, Dan Goldhaber, and Roddy Theobald find that the pandemic had predictable but concerning effects on teacher preparation. Most notably, student-teaching…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Teacher Education Programs, Student Teaching
Koralek, Robin; Johnson, Heidi; Ratcliffe, Caroline; Vericker, Tracy – Urban Institute (NJ1), 2010
This report presents the final results for the evaluation of the New Americans Centers (NACs) demonstration project in Arkansas and Iowa. It focuses on program operations and plans for program sustainability, while highlighting services provided through the demonstration projects in Arkansas and Iowa. It also documents outcomes for New Iowan…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Demonstration Programs, Job Training, Career Centers
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Rhodes, Jean; Lowe, Sarah Ryan – Child Care in Practice, 2008
Despite findings indicating the importance of non-parental adults in the lives of youth, there is little research on these relationships, including those that occur in the context of youth mentoring. Compounding this problem is a positive slant taken towards youth mentoring in the media, often unsubstantiated by empirical evidence. This article…
Descriptors: Youth, Mentors, Personality Traits, Adjustment (to Environment)
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Horn, Michael B.; Mackey, Katherine – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2011
In this article the authors accept as a given the National Education Technology Plan's vision of a transformed education system powered by technology such that learners receive personalized and engaging learning experiences, and where assessment, teaching, infrastructure, and productivity are redefined. The article analyzes this vision of a…
Descriptors: Technology Planning, Learning Processes, Educational Technology, Electronic Learning
Meyer, Robert H.; Christian, Michael S. – National Center on Performance Incentives, 2008
One of the central challenges of designing and implementing a performance pay program is developing an approach for determining which schools, teachers, and administrators have performed well enough to have earned a bonus. The U.S. Department of Education's Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) program provides grantees substantial latitude to create…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Incentives, Merit Pay, Program Design
Choi, Kilchan; Goldschmidt, Pete; Yamashiro, Kyo – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2006
The purpose of this report is to present and discuss competing accountability approaches, or models, designed to systematically indicate how a school's students are performing academically. Within the framework of the current federally mandated accountability legislation, increased interest in models measuring school performance has caused…
Descriptors: Accountability, Models, Inferences, Academic Achievement