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Leah Voorhies; Max Lang; Robert Palmer; Emily Berry – Utah State Board of Education, 2023
The Partnerships for Student Success grant program is designed to improve educational outcomes for students who are economically disadvantaged by funding grantees to establish and strengthen community partnerships among school districts, businesses, government, and non-profit agencies. The Utah State Board of Education awarded four grants during…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Program Evaluation, Grants, Educational Finance
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Abdulaziz, Noor Amal – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2022
This study was intended to evaluate the impact of socioeconomically disadvantaged children's participation in the Texas home instruction for parents of preschool youngsters (TXHIPPY) program on their school readiness and academic achievement for grades K to eight. The study used a quasi-experimental design and applied optimal full propensity score…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Preschool Children, Home Instruction, School Readiness
Lyzz Davis; Kathy Terry; Molly Cain; Samantha Sniegowski; Brandie Semma – American Institutes for Research, 2024
The Lone Star Stem (LSS) program was designed to increase high-quality STEM education opportunities and outcomes for high-need students in Texas. The focus of the program was on implementing rigorous coursework that helps students gain the skills, postsecondary credentials, and experience necessary to embark on well-paying careers in STEM fields.…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, STEM Education, Disadvantaged, Student Participation
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Doan, Sy; Engberg, John; Morales, Sam; Schwartz, Heather L.; Karoly, Lynn A. – RAND Corporation, 2023
This report is the third of three annual reports evaluating the implementation and effects of two Delaware weighted funding programs designed to support Delaware's 42 school districts and charter schools (also known as local education agencies [LEAs]) enrolling students experiencing poverty (SEPs) and multilingual learners (MLs) during the…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Program Implementation, Educational Finance, Block Grants
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Education Endowment Foundation, 2022
COVID has potentially reversed a decade of progress in closing the attainment gap. The evidence is clear that disadvantaged students have fallen further behind during the pandemic. This guide is designed as a practical starting point to support school leaders to develop, implement and monitor an evidence-informed approach to their Pupil Premium…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Achievement Gap, Academic Achievement
Trina Mitchener – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this quantitative comparative study was to determine the differences in literacy and mathematics pass rates between AY 2021-2022 and AY 2022-2023, whether a 21st CCLC Program contributed to score differences and whether there is an interaction between them in a southeastern state. A two-way mixed ANOVA was used to answer the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, After School Programs, Summer Programs, Literacy
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Lee, Matthew H.; Mills, Jonathan N.; Wolf, Patrick J. – Journal of School Choice, 2020
The Louisiana Scholarship Program (LSP) is a school voucher initiative offering publicly-funded scholarships to students from economically-disadvantaged families to attend participating private schools. Experimental evaluations of the program report large initial negative effects of LSP scholarship usage on standardized assessments after one year…
Descriptors: Heterogeneous Grouping, Academic Achievement, Educational Vouchers, Economically Disadvantaged
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Rose, Pauline; Sabates, Ricardo; Delprato, Marcos; Alcott, Ben – Comparative Education Review, 2022
In many low- and lower-middle-income countries, key barriers to girls' secondary school access and learning include poverty, school inaccessibility, poor school quality, and lack of gender-sensitive practices in the classroom. The nongovernmental organization, Campaign for Female Education (CAMFED), provides a range of financial, pedagogical, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Females, Equal Education
Scott Davies; Janice Aurini; Cathlene Hillier – Canadian Journal of Education, 2023
Can summer programs, as remedial supplements to regular schooling, extend learning opportunities and other benefits to disadvantaged students? To frame this question, we compare logics from "social reproduction" and "partial compensation" perspectives, and then apply them to a large mixed method study of four kinds of summer…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Summer Programs, Remedial Programs, Foreign Countries
Britt, Jessica; Fein, David; Maynard, Rebecca; Warfield, Garrett – Grantee Submission, 2021
This case study describes a small randomized controlled trial (RCT) comparing alternative strategies for monitoring and supporting academic achievement in Year Up's Professional Training Corps (PTC) program. Year Up is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preparing economically disadvantaged young adults for well-paying jobs with advancement…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Program Evaluation, Academic Achievement, Career Development
Alexander, Celeste; Reyes, Pedro; Stephens, Sarah – Texas Education Research Center, 2021
Federal policy recognizes the importance of effective educators, particularly in high-needs schools. Research has shown that the most critical school-related factor that influences student learning and achievement is teacher quality (Hanushek, 2011). The Texas Center for Educator Excellence (TxCEE) aims to address the research-based and…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Incentive Grants, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness
Kurtz, Michael D.; Conway, Karen S.; Mohr, Robert D. – Carsey School of Public Policy, 2021
Nationwide, over half a million children live in households that report very low food security among children, meaning a child is not eating enough, going hungry, skipping a meal, or not eating for a full day because the household can't afford food. School meals fill an important gap in meeting household food demand during the week but cannot meet…
Descriptors: Food, Security (Psychology), Hunger, Economically Disadvantaged
Chris Meadows – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) is a multi-tiered framework utilized in over 26,000 schools across the United States, to create a school culture consisting of a positive learning environment and successful student (Sugai & Horner, 2020). This study sought to determine the effectiveness of PBIS at a North Carolina public…
Descriptors: Positive Behavior Supports, Charter Schools, Program Evaluation, Public Schools
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Lawrence, Rebecca Ann; Steiner, Elizabeth D.; Holmes, Pierrce; Schwartz, Heather L.; Doan, Sy – RAND Corporation, 2023
This report is the fourth in a series describing the RAND Corporation's evaluation of the two Delaware weighted funding programs for disadvantaged K-12 schools spanning the 2019-2020 to 2021-2022 school years: Opportunity Funding and the Student Success Block Grant. The authors drew on annual surveys of Delaware local education agencies (LEAs)…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Educational Finance, Elementary Schools, Secondary Schools
Katie Taylor; Sheila Wilson – Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, 2024
In 2022, the Washington State Legislature passed Second Substitute House Bill 2078 (SHB 2078) to establish the Outdoor Learning Grant Program. This initiative aims to enhance outdoor educational experiences for students in Washington public schools, particularly those historically underserved in science, thereby increasing equity and opportunity…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Equal Education, Public Schools, Academic Achievement
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