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Wolf, Patrick J.; Harris, Douglas N.; Berends, Mark; Waddington, R. Joseph; Austin, Megan – Education Next, 2018
In the past few years, four states have established programs that provide public financial support to students who choose to attend a private school. These programs--a tax-credit-funded scholarship initiative in Florida and voucher programs in Indiana, Louisiana, and Ohio--offer a glimpse of what expansive statewide choice might look like. What…
Descriptors: School Choice, Financial Support, Resource Allocation, Private Schools
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Glazer, Hilda R.; Murphy, John A. – American Journal of Distance Education, 2015
The first-year experience for students enrolled in an online degree program, particularly the orientation and the first course experience, is critical to success and completion. The experience of one online university in improving persistence through enhancing orientation and the first academic course is presented. Factors impacting persistence…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Academic Persistence, College Students, Distance Education
OECD Publishing, 2018
After a period of relative neglect in many countries, apprenticeships and other forms of work-based learning are experiencing a revival. Their effectiveness in easing school-to-work transitions and serving the economy is increasingly recognised. However, engaging individuals, employers, social partners and education and training systems in such…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Vocational Education, Program Design, Context Effect
Pogrow, Stanley – National Center on Scaling Up Effective Schools, 2015
There is little discussion in the Design-Based Research (DBR) literature on how to design an intervention that has the potential to be highly effective. The act of designing is usually viewed as engineering something from theory or research on best practices. This paper challenges that universal belief and presents successful design as an…
Descriptors: Intervention, Program Design, Thinking Skills, Creative Thinking
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Kester, Jessica; Block, Rebecca; Karda, Margaret Reinfeld; Orndoff, Harold, III – Across the Disciplines, 2016
Today, and historically, the presence of WAC/WID programs in the community college setting remains anemic when compared to Ph.D.-granting institutions. This fact is particularly troubling considering the AAC&U's research on high-impact practices and its correlation with WAC/WID theory and practice. This article empirically investigates the…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Content Area Writing, Community Colleges, Educational Practices