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Meghan McCormick; Maya Goldberg; Emily Swinth; Cate Smith Todd; Lydia Carlis; Victoria Chavez – MDRC, 2023
There is clear evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic had significant negative effects on the learning and development of school-age children in the United States, with disproportionate impacts on children from racially, ethnically, and socioeconomically marginalized groups. There is less consistent evidence on the extent to which the pandemic…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
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Meghan McCormick; Maya Goldberg; Emily Swinth; Cate Smith Todd; Lydia Carlis; Victoria Chavez – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2023
Background/rationale: There is clear evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic had significant negative effects on the learning and development of school-age children in the United States, with disproportionate impacts on children from racially, ethnically, and socioeconomically marginalized groups (Irwin et al., 2022). There is less consistent evidence…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Preschool Children, Preschool Education
Nelson, Sydney Rae-Saidoo – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Student-teacher relationship quality (STRQ) influences a variety of student outcomes, including academic, social, and behavioral functioning (McGrath & Van Bergen, 2015). Less is known about the importance of STRQ for preschool students with disabilities. Many studies are conducted with school-aged, typically developing students (Ansari et…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Students with Disabilities
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Palomino, Cinthia I.; Brudvig, Andrea – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
Executive function (EF) skills play a crucial role in young children's academic and social-emotional development. Given that factors associated with poverty can compromise the development of EF skills, it is vital to continue to examine what factors help predict and support EF skills in children from at-risk backgrounds. Using a sample of Head…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Language Acquisition, Executive Function, Gender Differences
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Bruch, Julie; Gellar, Jonathan; Cattell, Lindsay; Hotchkiss, John; Killewald, Phil – Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, 2020
This report provides information for administrators, researchers, and student support staff in local education agencies who are interested in identifying students who are likely to have near-term academic problems such as absenteeism, suspensions, poor grades, and low performance on state tests. The report describes an approach for developing a…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Data Use, Child Welfare, Predictor Variables
Jepsen, Alison – Division of Community Colleges and Workforce Preparation, Iowa Department of Education, 2022
Since 1998, the Iowa Department of Education's Division of Community Colleges and Workforce Preparation (division) has compiled and published "The Annual Condition of Iowa's Community Colleges," commonly known as the "Condition Report." The intent of this report is to provide clear, objective data about Iowa's community…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, College Admission, College Enrollment
Jepsen, Alison – Division of Community Colleges and Workforce Preparation, Iowa Department of Education, 2021
Since 1998, the Iowa Department of Education's Division of Community Colleges and Workforce Preparation (division) has compiled and published "The Annual Condition of Iowa's Community Colleges," commonly known as the "Condition Report." The intent of this report is to provide clear, objective data about Iowa's community…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, College Admission, Enrollment
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Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, 2020
The document are the appendixes for the full report, "Using Data from Schools and Child Welfare Agencies to Predict Near-Term Academic Risks." The study team collected and linked five academic years of student-level administrative data from Pittsburgh Public Schools (PPS), Propel Schools, and the Allegheny County Department of Human…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools, Charter Schools, At Risk Students
Elisa B. Garcia – ProQuest LLC, 2017
In recent decades, the share of ethnically and linguistically diverse children enrolled in schools in the United States has exponentially increased. Despite the growing representation of ethnic minority and dual language learner (DLL) children, there is persistent evidence of early vocabulary gaps between low-income and DLL children and their…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Executive Function, Preschool Education, Spanish
Williams, Sharon N. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
A goal of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation is to improve educational opportunities for disadvantaged students. Schools that have not made adequate yearly progress (AYP) for 2 or more years are identified as schools in need of improvement and are therefore required to provide supplemental education services to students. The problem…
Descriptors: Supplementary Education, Academic Achievement, Suburban Schools, Educational Indicators
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King, Kelley; Gurian, Michael; Stevens, Kathy – Educational Leadership, 2010
The authors, who have worked with more than 2,000 schools across the United States in efforts to close gender gaps, describe how gender-related issues consistently intersect and interfere with school improvement efforts. They present statistics showing that schools are now failing boys in more areas than girls, and describe how "the…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Single Sex Schools, Teaching Styles, Females
Martin, Tammy Faith – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine principal leadership styles and their influence on school performance as measured by adequate yearly progress at selected Title I schools in South Carolina. The main focus of the research study was to complete descriptive statistics on principal leadership styles in schools that met or did not meet adequate…
Descriptors: Principals, Leadership Styles, Transformational Leadership, Correlation
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Scott-Clayton, Judith – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2011
Since 1964, the Federal Work-Study (FWS) program has provided funds to subsidize the wages of student employees, but it has never been studied directly. I use an instrumental variables difference-in-difference framework with administrative data from West Virginia to identify causal effects, comparing eligible and ineligible students across…
Descriptors: Evidence, Academic Achievement, Quasiexperimental Design, Federal Programs
Connolly, Faith; Olson, Linda S. – Baltimore Education Research Consortium, 2012
This study looks at attendance in the early grades of elementary school. In particular, the authors focus on students enrolled in Pre-Kindergarten (PreK) and Kindergarten (K). They follow these young students over several years to determine their pattern of chronic absence (CA), defined as missing more than one-ninth of days enrolled, and their…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Enrollment, Kindergarten, Charts
Brooks-Bey, Michelle Rubee – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of the length of years of preschool attendance on the academic achievement and retention of third and fourth grade students in high and low achieving schools. The study consisted of the analysis of secondary data, i.e., mathematics and language arts literacy scores as the measurement of academic…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Economic Status, Preschool Education, Language Arts
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