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Gary Orfield; Ryan Pfleger – Civil Rights Project - Proyecto Derechos Civiles, 2024
"Brown v. Board of Education" held that the educational systems of seventeen states that mandated segregated schools violated the Constitutional guarantee of equal protection. The decision helped set off the civil rights revolution. However, after so many years of backlash, schools of the South are dramatically less segregated than what…
Descriptors: Desegregation Litigation, School Desegregation, Civil Rights, Educational Change
Nicolas Acevedo Rebolledo; Kathryn J. Blanchard; Stephanie Riegg Cellini – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2025
In the United States, licenses are required for entry into many different occupations. Requirements vary by state and occupation, but many licenses require a minimum number of training or instructional hours. We consider the impact of these hours requirements on students and postsecondary institutions, with a particular focus on cosmetology (also…
Descriptors: Cosmetology, Certification, Educational Change, Training
Carmen Vidal Rodeiro – Cambridge University Press & Assessment, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic caused unprecedented disruption to education systems around the world. In England, as part of the government's response to the pandemic, schools and colleges were closed and lessons were moved partially or entirely online. Furthermore, public examinations in June 2020 were cancelled, meaning that methods had to be developed…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Change, Exit Examinations
Arold, Benjamin W. – Program on Education Policy and Governance, 2022
Anti-scientific attitudes can impose substantial costs on societies. Can schools be an important agent in mitigating the propagation of such attitudes? This paper investigates the effect of the content of science education on anti-scientific attitudes, knowledge, and choices. The analysis exploits staggered reforms that reduce or expand the…
Descriptors: Evolution, Creationism, Science Education, Religion
Thomas S. Dee; Elizabeth Huffaker – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
The pivotal role of Algebra in the educational trajectories of U.S. students continues to motivate controversial, high-profile policies focused on when students access the course, their classroom peers, and how the course is taught. This random-assignment partnership study examines an innovative district-level reform--the Algebra I…
Descriptors: Algebra, Grade 9, Student Placement, Scores
Matthew Atwell; Robert Balfanz; Vaughan Byrnes; John M. Bridgeland – Civic, 2023
For over two decades, there have been sustained efforts across the nation to increase high school graduation rates toward the goal of a 90 percent high school graduation rate for the Class of 2020 and improving educational outcomes for all students. The work of many educators, policymakers, organizations, and young people across the country…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, Graduation Rate, Educational Change, Educational Attainment
Riley K. Acton – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2022
In the competitive U.S. higher education market, institutions differentiate themselves to attract both students and tuition dollars. One understudied example of this differentiation is the increasing trend of "colleges" becoming "universities" by changing their names. Leveraging variation in the timing of such conversions in an…
Descriptors: Institutional Characteristics, Higher Education, Commercialization, Colleges
Davis Jenkins; Taylor Myers; Farzana Matin – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2023
Guided pathways is arguably the most widespread whole-college community college reform movement in decades. In this report, the authors present findings from a study on the scale of adoption of guided pathways practices across community and technical colleges in three states--Ohio, Tennessee, and Washington--where there are state-level efforts to…
Descriptors: Guided Pathways, Academic Advising, College Planning, Community Colleges
Aaron Churchill – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2024
In July 2023, Governor DeWine and the General Assembly enacted bold literacy reforms via his budget plan (House Bill 33) that require Ohio elementary schools to follow the Science of Reading starting in 2024-25. This approach to reading instruction emphasizes phonics to help students "decode" words, as well as knowledge- and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Reading, Learning Processes, Reading Instruction
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Shawna Cox; Aaron Gilary; Svetlana Mosina; Jennifer Rhea; Dillon Simon; Teresa Thomas; Chenping Zhang; Maura Spiegelman – National Center for Education Statistics, 2024
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) sponsors the National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS) on behalf of the U.S. Department of Education in order to collect data on public and private schools, principals, and teachers in the United States. The U.S. Census Bureau conducts the survey for NCES. The NTPS provides data on the…
Descriptors: Teachers, Principals, Elementary Secondary Education, Administrators
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Kuchler, Kirstin; Finestack, Lizbeth – Teaching and Learning in Communication Sciences & Disorders, 2022
The use of multiple-choice testing is common among all levels of education. This study examined one type of multiple-choice testing: the Immediate Feedback--Assessment Technique®? (IF-AT®?), which uses an answer-until-correct testing format. More than 300 undergraduate students in a speech-language-hearing sciences course used the IF-AT®? to take…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Feedback (Response), Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
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Cordes, Sarah A.; Lenhoff, Sarah Winchell; Schwartz, Amy Ellen; Singer, Jeremy; Trajkovski, Samantha – National Center for Research on Education Access and Choice, 2023
The COVID-19 crisis caused the educational system's sudden and drastic upheaval as parents were forced to decide where their children would attend school and how they would get there. These decisions were complicated by the uncertainty surrounding what type of online or hybrid schooling districts would offer, the health risks of different…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Enrollment Trends, Student Mobility
Marjolein E. A. Barendse; Jessica Flannery; Caitlin Cavanagh; Melissa Aristizabal; Stephen P. Becker; Estelle Berger; Rosanna Breaux; Nicole Campione-Barr; Jessica A. Church; Eveline A. Crone; Ronald E. Dahl; Tracy A. Dennis-Tiwary; Melissa R. Dvorsky; Sarah L. Dziura; Suzanne van de Groep; Tiffany C. Ho; Sarah E. Killoren; Joshua M. Langberg; Tyler L. Larguinho; Lucía Magis-Weinberg; Kalina J. Michalska; Jordan L. Mullins; Hanna Nadel; Blaire M. Porter; Mitchell J. Prinstein; Elizabeth Redcay; Amanda J. Rose; Wendy M. Rote; Amy K. Roy; Sophie W. Sweijen; Eva H. Telzer; Giana I. Teresi; April Gile Thomas; Jennifer H. Pfeifer – Grantee Submission, 2023
This study aimed to examine changes in depression and anxiety symptoms from before to during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic in a sample of 1,339 adolescents (9-18 years old, 59% female) from three countries. We also examined if age, race/ethnicity, disease burden, or strictness of government restrictions moderated change in…
Descriptors: Change, Depression (Psychology), Anxiety, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
Filmer, Deon – World Bank, 2023
Across six Sub-Saharan African countries, grade 4 students of teachers who were hired after a free primary education reform perform worse, on average, on language and math tests--statistically significantly so in language--than students of teachers who were hired before the reform. Teachers who were hired just after the reform also perform worse,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Education, Educational Change, Grade 4
Ezra Karger; Sarah Komisarow – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
We investigate the beginning of the school discipline pipeline using a reform in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools that limited the use of out-of-school suspension for students in grades K-2. We find that the reform reduced the likelihood of out-of-school suspension by 1.4 percentage points (56%) and had precise null effects on test scores and…
Descriptors: Discipline, Suspension, Kindergarten, Grade 1
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