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Cosner, Shelby – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2019
What makes a leadership preparation program exemplary? All three exemplary programs featured in this special issue evidence strong learning orientations and more sustained improvement work in their pursuit of exemplary preparation. I therefore examine exemplary preparation from a process perspective that emphasizes continuous improvement. To help…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation, Program Improvement
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National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2019
Between 2012 and 2018, the U.S. Department of Education invested nearly $350 million in 22 Comprehensive Technical Assistance (TA) Centers that operated across the nation. These Centers were charged with delivering TA that builds the capacity of state education agencies (SEAs) to support local education agencies in improving student outcomes.…
Descriptors: Technical Assistance, Federal Programs, Program Design, Program Implementation
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Weinstock, Phyllis; Gulemetova, Michaela; Sanchez, Raquel; Silver, David; Barach, Ilana – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2019
Between 2012 and 2018, the U.S. Department of Education invested nearly $350 million in 22 Comprehensive Technical Assistance (TA) Centers operating across the nation. These Centers were charged with delivering TA that builds the capacity of state education agencies (SEAs) to support local educational agencies (LEAs) in improving student outcomes.…
Descriptors: Technical Assistance, Federal Programs, Program Design, Program Implementation
Schanzenbach, Diane Whitmore – Institute for Research on Poverty, 2021
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, previously called the Food Stamp Program) is a key component of the U.S. social safety net. SNAP is the only social safety net program universally available to low-income Americans, and is intended to help families meet their basic nutritional needs. It can also help to stabilize the economy…
Descriptors: Crisis Management, Pandemics, COVID-19, Welfare Services
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Tatto, Maria Teresa – Oxford Review of Education, 2015
The stated goal of current education reform is the redesign of education systems in pursuit of quality. Systems that consistently "come out on top" have excited much interest in uncovering the features that have contributed to their success; notably among these is the preparation of future teachers. Research on teacher education quality…
Descriptors: Role, Educational Research, Program Improvement, Accreditation (Institutions)
Mitchel, Ashley LiBetti; King, Melissa Steel – Bellwether Education Partners, 2016
Every year, new teachers collectively spend about $4.8 billion on their training requirements, nearly all of which goes to teacher preparation programs. Unfortunately, it is unclear whether that is money well spent. Despite decades of research and ongoing calls to improve the quality of teacher training, we still do not know how to sculpt an…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Action Research, Program Improvement, Evidence Based Practice
Jacobs, Christine, Ed.; Whitfield, Sarah, Ed. – Brookings Institution, 2012
Recent increases in tuition levels, accelerated by declining state funding to institutions, have combined with stagnant or falling household incomes to make it more difficult for many college students to finance postsecondary education. In this environment, state grant programs are more important than ever. These funds have the potential to make…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, College Students, State Aid, Grants
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Draper, Paul; Harrison, Scott – British Journal of Music Education, 2011
This paper explores recent developments in relation to doctoral research training in music. Drawing on the findings of a case-study of a recently established practice-led doctorate at an Australian conservatoire, we offer insights into the attributes of its expanding cohort. We interrogate a blended research training structure of academic…
Descriptors: Music Education, Doctoral Programs, Research, Program Improvement
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Cosner, Shelby; Tozer, Steve; Zavitkovsky, Paul; Whalen, Samuel P. – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2015
In 2013, the University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) in its inaugural "Exemplary Educational Leadership Preparation" (EELP) program competition recognized University of Illinois at Chicago's (UIC) Doctorate in Urban Education Leadership as one of two EELP programs in the United States. This article provides information…
Descriptors: Research Universities, Educational Administration, Program Descriptions, Program Design
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Phillips, Jack J.; Phillips, Patti P. – Performance Improvement, 2010
Although the need for project objectives is obvious, their value and role are much broader than most think. In this article, we explore the need for higher levels of objectives, along with tips and techniques to develop them properly. More important, we examine the benefits of objectives from many perspectives. In today's competitive environment,…
Descriptors: Improvement Programs, Program Effectiveness, Behavioral Objectives, Performance Technology
Urban Education Collaborative, 2010
In 2004-05, the School District of Philadelphia (SDP) began a groundbreaking partnership with the Eli Broad Foundation to develop the Academy for Leadership in Philadelphia Schools (ALPS), one of several Broad-funded, alternative principal development programs initiated across the country. The ALPS effort was designed to respond to two challenges:…
Descriptors: School Districts, Urban Education, Partnerships in Education, Principals
Tout, Kathryn; Zaslow, Martha; Halle, Tamara; Forry, Nicole – Child Trends, 2009
Since the first child care Quality Rating System (QRS) was implemented in Oklahoma 11 years ago (in 1998), 16 additional statewide systems have been launched and numerous states are piloting or developing a QRS (Zaslow, Tout, & Martinez-Beck, forthcoming). As QRS stakeholders across the nation look ahead to the next decade, it is important to take…
Descriptors: Human Services, Cooperation, National Organizations, Public Agencies
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Wittkuhn, Klaus D. – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2012
Disciplines and professions each have their own methods of inquiry. This article outlines the commonalities as well as the differences and describes the relationship between the disciplines and the professions. The emphasis is on consulting because this is the profession with which we are concerned. There are three different approaches in…
Descriptors: Performance Technology, Inquiry, Research Methodology, Consultation Programs
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Van Tassel-Baska, Joyce – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2006
This article delineates the results of 7 gifted program evaluation studies conducted in 20 different school districts and places them in the context of major areas for gifted program improvement. The author suggests that the field of gifted education may be vulnerable to losing its infrastructure at local levels if enhanced program development in…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Program Evaluation, School Districts, Program Improvement
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Tiger, Jeffrey H.; Hanley, Gregory P.; Bessette, Kimberly K. – Education and Treatment of Children, 2006
Functional analysis methodology has become the hallmark of behavioral assessment, yielding a determination of behavioral function in roughly 96% of the cases published (Hanley, Iwata, & McCord, 2003). Some authors have suggested that incorporating the results of a descriptive assessment into the design of a functional analysis may be useful in…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Behavior Problems, Functional Behavioral Assessment, Case Studies
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