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Parr, Andrew J. – Washington State Board of Education, 2022
Engrossed House Bill 1121, signed into law during the 2021 Legislative session and codified in RCW 28A.230.320, provides the State Board of Education (SBE) the authority to establish an emergency waiver program to allow school districts and local educational agencies (LEAs) to waive certain high school graduation requirements on an individual…
Descriptors: High School Students, Graduation Requirements, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Troppe, Patricia; Osowski, Michelle; Wolfson, Mary; Ristow, Liam; Lomax, Erin; Thacker, Arthur; Schultz, Sheila – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2023
This appendix volume supplements "Evaluating the Federal Innovative Assessment Demonstration Authority: Early Implementation and Progress of State Efforts to Develop New Statewide Academic Assessments. Evaluation Report. NCEE 2023-004" analyzing the early progress of the first five assessment systems participating in the Innovative…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Program Implementation, Testing Programs, State Programs
Potter, Daniel; Bao, Katharine; Gill, Patrick; Sánchez-Soto, Gabriela; Kennedy, Camila Cigarroa; Stice, Kenneth; Alvear, Sandra; Min, Jie – Houston Education Research Consortium, 2022
Background and Purpose: Each school year, in the state of Texas, students unexpectedly change schools almost 450,000 times. In the Houston region alone, students change schools more than 60,000 times. These school changes are not random, tend to be geographically contained though not within school districts, and carry significant ramifications in…
Descriptors: Student Mobility, Public Schools, Student Characteristics, Academic Achievement
Fuchsman, Dillon; Sass, Tim R.; Zamarro, Gema – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2020
Teacher turnover has adverse consequences for student achievement and imposes large financial costs for schools. Some have argued that high-stakes testing may lower teachers' satisfaction with their jobs and could be a major contributor to teacher attrition. In this paper, we exploit changes in the tested grades and subjects in Georgia to study…
Descriptors: Testing, Faculty Mobility, Teacher Distribution, High Stakes Tests
Gill, Tim – Cambridge University Press & Assessment, 2022
This report is an updated version of analyses undertaken in previous years (Gill and Crawford, 2016; Gill, 2017; Gill, 2018) looking at the impact of the introduction of new accountability measures (Progress 8) on the qualifications and subjects taken by students at the end of Key Stage 4 (KS4). The focus of this report is on changes to the uptake…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accountability, Grades (Scholastic), Academic Achievement
Scrimgeour, Meghan – Wake County Public School System, 2023
The Wake County Public School System's AIG 2019-22 Plan is designed to meet the academic, intellectual, social, and emotional needs of gifted and advanced learners with a focus on providing equitable access to AIG programming. To examine progress towards achieving the plan's goals, a descriptive study utilizing a variety of data sources was…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Gifted Education, Equal Education, Minority Group Students
Pedro-Alvarez, Marcello; Priebe, Jan; Susanti, Dewi – World Bank, 2020
Teacher evaluations are conducted to inform employment decisions and teacher professional development with the ultimate goal to create beneficial student learning environments. The effectiveness and feasibility of teacher evaluations, particularly in high-stakes contexts (hiring, firing, promotion, Pay-for-Performance schemes), crucially depends…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accountability, Teacher Effectiveness, Merit Pay
Fermanich, Mark; Finster, Matthew – Region 5 Comprehensive Center, 2022
This study aimed to identify best practices for collecting and reporting state teacher supply and demand data. The study examined data systems for monitoring teacher demand and supply data, such as district position vacancies by certification area, candidate recruitment, and the performance and productivity of educator preparation programs.…
Descriptors: Teacher Supply and Demand, Teacher Certification, Teacher Education Programs, Diversity
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Forrow, Lauren; Kelly, Kevin – Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, 2020
The purpose of this study was to understand why middle schools in two mid-Atlantic states were apparently disproportionately identified for targeted support and improvement (TSI) based on the performance of their students with disabilities (SWD) subgroups. The study used publicly available data to examine differences across school levels --…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Disproportionate Representation, Middle School Students, Students with Disabilities
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Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest, 2022
The School Improvement Division of the Texas Education Agency (TEA) identifies, monitors, and supports low-performing schools. To identify low-performing schools, TEA assigns annual academic accountability ratings to its districts and schools, but these ratings are provided only once per year and are vulnerable to disruptions in the assessment…
Descriptors: Accountability, Low Achievement, Educational Indicators, Student Behavior
Christensen, Cody; Turner, Lesley J. – Brookings Institution, 2021
Community colleges play an important role in providing access to higher education and promoting economic mobility, but student outcomes vary widely across institutions. Although community colleges have been largely excluded from recent federal accountability action, the potential re-regulation of Gainful Employment raises the question of whether…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Outcomes of Education, Accountability, Educational Policy
McGuire, Katherine A. – Association for Institutional Research, 2017
Data quality has become a pressing issue for many campuses in recent years, as colleges struggle to extract timely, accurate, and consistent information from ever-proliferating institutional data sources in order to meet strategic decision-making and accountability demands. In this mixed methods study, a survey and semi-structured interviews were…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Data, Quality Assurance, Data Collection
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Troppe, Patricia; Isenberg, Eric; Milanowski, Anthony; Garrison-Mogren, Roberta; Rizzo, Louis; Gill, Brian P.; Ross, Christine; Dillon, Erin; Li, Ann – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2020
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), originally passed in 1965, is the primary federal law related to K-12 schooling. Title I and Title II-A are core ESEA programs, and they intend to help provide all students with equal access to education by providing financial assistance to schools and districts with a high percentage of students…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Academic Standards
Gonzalez, Veronica; Ahlman, Lindsay; Fung, Ana – Project on Student Debt, 2019
"Student Debt and the Class of 2018" is the fourteenth annual report produced by The Institute for College Access & Success (TICAS) on the student loan debt of recent graduates from four-year colleges, documenting the changes in student loan debt and variation among states as well as colleges. This report includes federal policy…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Debt (Financial), Student Loan Programs, Student Financial Aid
William Delgado – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
Does student-teacher match quality exist? Prior work has documented large disparities in teachers' impacts across student types but has not distinguished between sorting and causal effects as the drivers of these disparities. I propose a disparate value-added model and derive a novel measure of teacher quality--revealed comparative advantage--that…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Value Added Models, Teacher Effectiveness, Attribution Theory
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