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Patricia A. Ulman – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Educators are increasingly using trauma-informed approaches to lessen the harsh effects of trauma on children. Although this practice is becoming more common in U.S. kindergarten through Grade 12 schools, it has been slow to reach the early care and education setting, which includes Head Start programs. Head Starts are encouraged to use a trauma…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Social Services, Low Income Students, Administrator Attitudes
Nishank Varshney – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Despite growing evidence about the significance of Early Childhood Development (ECD) programs, public investment has been relatively low, resulting in slower expansion of evidence-based ECD programs. This dissertation consists of three essays on conducting and using economic evaluation methods to scale up early childhood education and development…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Early Childhood Education, Evaluation Methods, Program Development
Knetl, Brian M. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this dissertation was to understand how a new two-year college was designed and implemented within the context of and as a response to the completion agenda by focusing on the decisions and actions of the Administrative Leadership Team (ALT). The research was framed around the completion agenda themes of access, affordability, and…
Descriptors: Planning, Community Colleges, Program Design, Program Implementation
Bowden, Curtis Todd – ProQuest LLC, 2009
In 1973, the state of Florida implemented the Florida Education Finance Program (FEFP). The program was developed to distribute available funds to public school districts in a more equitable manner than the Minimum Foundation Plan it replaced. Almost immediately, the Florida Education Finance Program came under attack as less equitable and…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Educational History, Public Schools, Educational Finance