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Mark Innes – Journal of Education Policy, 2024
This article reports on data and analysis from a case study investigating policy enactments in a multi-academy trust (MAT) in England. The focus is the influence of a policy intermediary organisation (PIO), The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), on policy making by school leaders. The case is located in the literacy policy of a MAT of 15…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Policy, Policy Formation, Policy
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Allison, Chelsea; Sneed, Christopher T.; McElrone, Marissa; Riggsbee, Kristin; Burney, Janie – Journal of Extension, 2022
Extension programming can be effective at delivering nutrition education to food pantry clients. This study aimed to understand the perceptions of food pantry personnel towards nutrition education. A mixed methods survey was administered to food pantry personnel (n=53). Most (62.3%) reported their food pantry was church-affiliated, and few (22.6%)…
Descriptors: Nutrition Instruction, Food, Hunger, Employee Attitudes
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Horner, Sarah; Orr, Jane – Research-publishing.net, 2022
In this case study, Sarah Horner and Jane Orr from the Bloomfield Learning Centre, a specialist literacy clinic run as a charity and serving the poorest parts of London, report on how Sounds-Write helped a student regain his self-confidence and motivation for learning, after difficulties in reading had led to behaviour problems and a dislike of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Programs, Reading Difficulties, Reading Improvement
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Laura Nichols; Maria Valle – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2024
Undermatching, or students attending less selective colleges than they are academically qualified to attend, is seen as a contributing factor to the lagging college completion rate of low-income and first-generation college students. Addressing the mismatch has been mainly limited to the individual level. Through analysis of interview and…
Descriptors: Time to Degree, Hispanic American Students, School Choice, Barriers
Curtiss Wyss, Molly – Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, 2022
The Center for Universal Education (CUE) at Brookings has been investigating efforts to scale and sustain evidence-based initiatives leading to large-scale improvements in children's learning. CUE has been implementing a series of collaborative action research initiatives called Real-time Scaling Labs (RTSL), in partnership with local institutions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education, Secondary School Students, Financial Education
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Dillman, Lisa M.; Christie, Christina A. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2017
This study explores the relationship between evaluation policies and evaluation practice. Through document analysis, interviews, and a multiple case study, the research examined the explicit and implicit policies overarching the evaluation work commissioned by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and explored how these policies are…
Descriptors: Nonprofit Organizations, Philanthropic Foundations, Case Studies, Policy
Phelan, Julia; Egger, Jeffrey; Kim, Junok; Choi, Kilchan; Keum, Eunhee; Chung, Gregory K. W. K.; Baker, Eva L. – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2021
The National Math + Science Initiative (NMSI) is a nonprofit organization committed to improving educational outcomes that traces its roots back to the early 1990s. NMSI's College Readiness Program (CRP) is a long-standing program with the goal of promoting STEM education in high schools to improve students' preparation for college. The three-year…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Nonprofit Organizations, Program Evaluation, STEM Education
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Livingston, Lucas; Fiterman Persin, Gerri; Del Signore, Deborah – Journal of Museum Education, 2016
This article focuses on the implementation and evaluation of "Art in the Moment," a collaborative program between the Art Institute of Chicago and CJE SeniorLife, a non-profit eldercare organization and service provider for the Chicago area. We joined together to develop and offer "Art in the Moment" as an arts-based…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Caregivers, Program Implementation, Program Evaluation
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Kontos, George – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2016
The following paper describes a distinctive collaborative service-learning project done in an undergraduate class on web design. In this project, students in a web design class contacted local community non-profit organizations to create websites (collections of web pages) to benefit these organizations. The two phases of creating a website,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Cooperative Learning, Service Learning
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Vanderkruik, Rachel; McPherson, Marianne E. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2017
Evaluating initiatives implemented across multiple settings can elucidate how various contextual factors may influence both implementation and outcomes. Understanding context is especially critical when the same program has varying levels of success across settings. We present a framework for evaluating contextual factors affecting an initiative…
Descriptors: Public Health, Sustainability, Program Implementation, Context Effect
Digital Promise, 2018
On March 9, 2016, two nonprofit organizations -- Digital Promise, committed to accelerating innovation in education, and the Maker Education Initiative (Maker Ed), dedicated to empowering educators to facilitate meaningful learning experiences with youth -- issued a call to action for U.S. school and district leaders to sign the Maker Promise, a…
Descriptors: Nonprofit Organizations, Partnerships in Education, Shared Resources and Services, Student Projects
Digital Promise, 2017
On March 9, 2016, Digital Promise, a nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating innovation in education, and the Maker Education Initiative (Maker Ed), a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering educators to facilitate meaningful learning experiences with youth, launched the Maker Promise. Announced by the White House as part of…
Descriptors: Nonprofit Organizations, Partnerships in Education, Shared Resources and Services, Student Projects
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Vinuales, Gema; Harris, Judy – Marketing Education Review, 2017
Students implemented social media campaigns to raise awareness and funds for nonprofit organizations. Teams in one section of the course worked on a designated client-sponsored project (CSP), while teams in another section chose their own nonprofit organizations. Although both the CSPs and non-CSPs were evaluated favorably, students who worked on…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Social Media, Student Projects, Fund Raising
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Hervani, Aref Agahei; Helms, Marilyn M.; Rutti, Raina M.; LaBonte, Joanne; Sarkarat, Sy – Journal of Learning in Higher Education, 2015
As more college courses are taught online, maintaining course deliverables and learning to mirror face-to-face offerings is important to faculty, students, and accrediting agencies. Offering experiential and service learning is an increasingly important way to connect students to their local communities. This article presents a case study…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Online Courses, Delivery Systems, Experiential Learning
Hirschi, Jane S. – Harvard Education Press, 2015
"Ripe for Change: Garden-Based Learning in Schools" takes a big-picture view of the school garden movement and the state of garden-based learning in public K--8 education. The book frames the garden movement for educators and shows how school gardens have the potential to be a significant resource for teaching and learning. In this…
Descriptors: Integrated Activities, Learning Activities, Gardening, Case Studies
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