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Rachel Garrett; Andrea Boyle; Mengli Song; Joanne Carminucci – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2024
The report "How a Federal Grant Program Is Training and Supporting Educators of English Learners" examines the extent to which National Professional Development (NPD) grantees implemented their projects in ways aligned with program objectives, drawing primarily on a survey of all 2016 and 2017 NPD grantees. This document provides…
Descriptors: Program Descriptions, Data Collection, Measurement, Faculty Development
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Andrews, Stuart; Duggan, Patrick – Research in Drama Education, 2021
Performing City Resilience is a collaborative research project that investigates interrelations between theories, practices and strategies of city resilience, and those of performance. In this essay, the authors explore ways performance might conceive of and contribute to practices of hazard mitigation strategy to better understand how these might…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), National Security, Emergency Programs, Public Agencies
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Boeltzig-Brown, Heike; Fleming, Allison R.; Heyman, Miriam; Gauthier, Martha; Cully, Julisa; Foley, Susan M. – Rehabilitation Research, Policy, and Education, 2017
Purpose: To conduct a systematic review (SR) of 550 studies produced between 1970 and 2008 that focus on programs and/or services provided by state vocational rehabilitation (VR) agencies believed to impact client and/or program outcomes. Method: Authors used a 5-step SR protocol to evaluate and summarize study content and outcomes, study design,…
Descriptors: Vocational Rehabilitation, Literature Reviews, State Agencies, Relevance (Education)
Sherman, Tina Won; Emrey-Arras, Melissa – US Government Accountability Office, 2021
At a time when student loan debt continues to mount for many, the Public Student Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program--established in 2007 and administered by Education--is intended to encourage individuals to pursue careers in public service. Senate Report 116-48 included a provision for the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to study the…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Loan Repayment, Program Descriptions, Public Service
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Hanlon, Philip J., Ed.; Murthy, Jayathi Y., Ed.; Rovito, Sarah M., Ed. – National Academies Press, 2023
More than 100 U.S. institutions of higher education hosted Confucius Institutes (CIs), Chinese government-funded language and culture centers, on campus during the late 2000s and 2010s. While CIs provided a source of funding and other resources that enabled U.S. colleges and universities to build capacity, offer supplemental programming, and…
Descriptors: Confucianism, Asian Culture, Cultural Education, Chinese
Halley Potter; Casey Stockstill – Century Foundation, 2024
The landscape of early childhood programs has evolved as a largely fractured landscape: most public early education programs such as Head Start and state pre-K have been limited to low-income children or children with identified risk factors, and most private programs charge tuition that is too low to support a well-compensated workforce but still…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Student Diversity, At Risk Students, Low Income Students
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Ketting, Evert; Brockschmidt, Laura; Ivanova, Olena – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2021
The purposes of this paper are: to assess how comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) is implemented in schools in the World Health Organisation's European Region; and to investigate the evidence supporting its effectiveness. Data were collected in 2016-2017, using a validated questionnaire sent to representatives of governmental and…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Sex Education, Program Implementation, Teaching Methods
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Collins, Christopher S. – Review of Higher Education, 2017
In 2012, the United States Agency for International Development allocated $137 million to fund seven universities to create "development labs" to advance social/economic progress and reduce poverty. International economic development has become a booming field and industry but is also highly contested. The function of the university as a…
Descriptors: Poverty, Qualitative Research, Universities, Economic Development
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Egalite, Anna J.; Fusarelli, Lance; Barriga, M. Daniela; Antoszyk, Emily; Stallings, D. T. – Journal of School Choice, 2020
We examine how low-income parents who apply for North Carolina's Opportunity Scholarship program navigate major obstacles to their full participation in this means-tested private school choice program. Using a mixed-methods approach, this study draws upon administrative data from the state agency that oversees the program, surveys of every…
Descriptors: School Choice, Costs, Low Income Groups, Scholarships
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Zinzi, Angelo; Pittori, Carlotta; Tagliamonte, Rosa; Nichelli, Elisa – Physics Education, 2021
Since 2017 the Italian Space Agency (ASI) participates to so-called 'Alternanza Scuola-Lavoro' (i.e. 'school-work synergy') outreach projects promoted by the Italian government, and the ASI Space Science Data Center (SSDC) actively contributes to them, with the primary aim of bringing students closer to space-related activities before choosing…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, High School Students, Space Sciences
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Lund, Darren E.; Lee, Lianne – Multicultural Education, 2021
This research studies a justice-based program that was originally developed from an initiation by a community agency seeking a collaboration with a postsecondary program. For this article, service-learning is defined as an experience in which students are provided an opportunity to participate in an organized activity in the community that serves…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, School Community Relationship
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Lery, Bridgette; Wiegmann, Wendy; Berrick, Jill Duerr – Journal of Social Work Education, 2015
The federal government increasingly expects child welfare systems to be more responsive to the needs of their local populations, connect strategies to results, and use continuous quality improvement (CQI) to accomplish these goals. A method for improving decision making, CQI relies on an inflow of high-quality data, up-to-date research evidence,…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Federal Government, Decision Making, Organizational Climate
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Schober, Daniel J.; Fawcett, Stephen B. – Health Education & Behavior, 2015
The DELTA PREP Project aims to reduce risk for intimate partner violence (IPV). It engaged leadership and staff from 19 statewide domestic violence coalitions in building capacity to prevent IPV before it occurs (rather than solely responding to IPV). This article describes the process and outcomes associated with action planning to create…
Descriptors: Program Descriptions, Family Violence, Organizational Change, Risk
Jennifer C. Smith-Grant; Nancy D. Brener; Adriana Rico; J. Michael Underwood; Barbara Queen – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2022
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention established School Health Profiles (Profiles) in 1996 to monitor school health policies and practices in secondary schools in states and school districts across the United States. Profiles is a system of surveys conducted biennially in even-numbered years and provides data on the following topics:…
Descriptors: Public Health, School Policy, Health Education, Physical Education
Goodwin, Gretta L. – US Government Accountability Office, 2020
The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is responsible for managing the care and custody of approximately 175,000 federal inmates--an estimated 20 percent of whom have been diagnosed with a substance use disorder. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) was asked to review BOP's efforts to provide drug treatment to federal inmates. This report (1)…
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons, Clinical Diagnosis, Substance Abuse
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