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Leslie Hodges; Saied Toossi; Jessica E. Todd; Cayley Ryan-Claytor – US Department of Agriculture, 2024
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) provides supplemental foods, nutrition education, and referrals to healthcare and other social services to low-income, nutritionally at-risk women, infants, and children up to 5 years of age. About 40 percent of all infants and 22…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Nutrition, Females, Infants
Pooja Patel; Madeline Joy Trimble; Emily Tichenor; Alexandra W. Logue – ITHAKA S+R, 2024
The City University of New York (CUNY) and Ithaka S+R developed a supportive credit mobility system to overcome barriers in the student transfer process. Launched in May 2020, the City University of New York (CUNY) Transfer Explorer (CUNY T-Rex) exposes course and credit-for-prior-learning (CPL) transfer rules as well as general education and…
Descriptors: Program Development, College Transfer Students, College Credits, Transfer Policy
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Bruce D. McDonald III; William Hatcher; Hunter Bacot; Michelle D. Evans; Sean A. McCandless; Lindsey M. McDougle; Sarah L. Young; Ian C. Elliott; Rachel Emas; Elaine Yi Lu; Michaela E. Abbott; Domonic A. Bearfield; RaJade M. Berry-James; Brandi Blessett; Erin L. Borry; John Diamond; Amiee L. Franklin; Tia Sheree Gaynor; Ting Gong; Doug Goodman; Mary E. Guy; Jeremy L. Hall; Megan Hatch; Myung H. Jin; Meagan M. Jordan; Jamie Levine Daniel; Jeannine M. Love; Craig S. Maher; Charles Menifield; Janine O'Flynn; Rosemary O'Leary; Peng Liu; Cristian Pliscoff; Gabriel Puron-Cid; Sara R. Rinfret; Jessica E. Sowa; Edmund C. Stazyk; Kendra Stewart; Ador R. Torneo; Kimberly K. Wiley; Yahong Zhang – Journal of Public Affairs Education, 2024
Two essential questions for those leading the field of public administration are: What do we teach our students, and how do we train them? As scholars, we pay significant attention to our research, often to the detriment of recognizing the potential for merging our research with teaching through the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL).…
Descriptors: Public Administration, Scholarship, College Faculty, Educational Research
Paul Woodgates – Higher Education Policy Institute, 2023
This report by Paul Woodgates explores change initiatives in higher education institutions, considering why they are needed and why they are difficult to deliver. He outlines how universities should carefully design change projects to maximise impact and likelihood of success.
Descriptors: Universities, Educational Change, Higher Education, Change Strategies
Nicole Stelle Garnett; Michael Q. McShane – Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 2023
Over the last two years, seven states have enacted new universal education savings account (ESA) programs or have expanded existing programs to universal or near-universal eligibility. Parental-choice advocates, who have labored for decades to make incremental inroads toward achieving greater educational freedom for families. However, the authors…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Money Management, Barriers, Parent Role
Siqueiros, Michele – Campaign for College Opportunity, 2020
Attending college without working is a luxury most California community college students do not have. In fact, nationally, 80 percent of today's community college students work while going to class (39 percent of them work full-time), with many balancing their role as a primary source of income for their family and caring for young children. Jobs…
Descriptors: Work Study Programs, Federal Programs, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students
AASA, The School Superintendent's Association, 2019
Awareness that educational equity and health care equity are intrinsically linked is becoming more commonplace, but because a significant share of states are providing much less school funding than they were a decade ago, there are fewer local education dollars allocated to addressing the health care issues of children in school. In December 2018,…
Descriptors: Health Insurance, School District Size, Rural Schools, Federal Programs
AASA, The School Superintendent's Association, 2019
A school's primary responsibility is to provide students with a high-quality education. However, children cannot learn to their fullest potential with unmet health needs. For over thirty years, Medicaid has helped cover the costs for certain medically necessary services provided in school-based settings to children eligible for special education…
Descriptors: Health Insurance, School District Size, Rural Schools, Federal Programs
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Jallad, Mayssa; Mintchev, Nikolay; Pietrostefani, Elisabetta; Daher, Mariam; Moore, Henrietta L. – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2022
This article argues for a citizen social science methodology in which residents from the sites of inquiry play a central role in key activities of the research process and beyond: research design and data collection, presentation and publication of findings, and design and implementation of urban interventions that address challenges to quality of…
Descriptors: Social Science Research, Foreign Countries, Inquiry, Active Learning
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Jones, Kiku; Ceccucci, Wendy – Information Systems Education Journal, 2018
Information systems programs have offered students opportunities for service learning in their curriculum through elective courses and through capstone courses. However, even though there have been numerous research studies showing the benefits of international service learning experiences, information systems programs have not yet developed these…
Descriptors: Information Systems, Service Learning, Teaching Methods, Program Implementation
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Claro, Magdalena; Jara, Ignacio – Digital Education Review, 2020
This article analyzes the reasons behind the end of the ICT in education policy (Enlaces) driven by the Chilean Ministry of Education for 25 years. The argument is that the institution that sought to give sustainability to this policy over time, ended up losing its ability to lead relevant responses to the educational challenges posed by the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational History, Information Technology
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McGovern, Patricia; Zimmerman, Sheryl – Journal of Social Work Education, 2018
The purpose of this article is to identify doctoral administration and education standards, practices, policies, and related gaps in knowledge, and consider them in the context of persistent social work challenges. A literature review was conducted, and focus groups were convened at the 2016 conference of the Group for the Advancement of Doctoral…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Academic Standards, Educational Policy, Social Work
Wesley, Alexa; Parnell, Amelia; Askin, Jacalyn – NASPA - Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, 2020
Higher education is deploying a range of innovative strategies in response to rising costs and financial challenges. This report presents findings from a NASPA [National Association of Student Personnel Administrators] study on cost-saving initiatives at three institutions. Each institution aimed to creatively address different areas affecting…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Cost Effectiveness, Professional Associations, Student Personnel Workers
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O'Reilly, Erin N. – International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2016
As access to information and communication technology grows, educators have increasing opportunities to experiment with and to adapt both hardware and software to their current practice. Technology's integration, however, can vary widely between teachers within the same program for numerous reasons. Understanding the challenges practitioners face…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Technology Integration, Needs Assessment, Educational Indicators
Harkness, Joseph; Logan, Christopher W.; Shivji, Azim; Nisar, Hiren; Connor, Patty – US Department of Agriculture, 2015
Section 104(a) of the Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act (HHFKA) of 2010 made the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) available to Local Educational Agencies (LEAs) and schools in high poverty areas. Under the CEP, families are not required to submit applications for free or reduced-price meals, and schools must provide free lunch and breakfast to…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Food, Federal Programs, Eligibility
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