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Dave Brown – Middle Grades Review, 2023
As a reviewer of middle level schools, their programs, policies, curricula, mission statements, instructional behaviors, assessment processes, and student-oriented community the author offers observations that can promote better student equity. He suggests: (1) "Producing Equity Belief Statements." Mission, Equity, or Inclusion…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, School Culture, Organizational Culture, Social Structure
Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research, 2022
This toolkit that can empower state leaders to transform their vocational-technical schools for the better. It builds on "Hands-On Achievement," a book detailing the Massachusetts model that Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research published earlier in 2022. The toolkit describes three keys to success, provides a brief history of…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Educational History, Program Content, Access to Education
Moore, Colleen; Schrager, Cynthia; Jaeger, Laura – Education Insights Center, 2019
In the first report in this exploratory study of efforts to improve advising, researchers at the Education Insights Center (EdInsights) interviewed administrators from five California State University (CSU) campuses and reported on the key strategies these campuses are implementing to integrate academic advising services across their colleges,…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Educational Improvement, State Universities, Change Strategies
Moore, Colleen; Schrager, Cynthia; Jaeger, Laura – Education Insights Center, 2018
Many campuses across the California State University (CSU) system are seeking to improve academic advising as part of their efforts to increase student progress and graduation rates. In this exploratory study of efforts to improve academic advising at five CSU campuses, researchers at the Education Insights Center (EdInsights) working on behalf of…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, State Universities, Change Strategies, Improvement
Washburn, Maureen; Menart, Renee – Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, 2020
California's youth correctional institutions are failing young people and their communities. The system--currently known as the Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ)--exposes youth to a violent, prison-like environment that should shock the consciences of California lawmakers, advocates, and residents. Since the 1890s, the state's youth correctional…
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons, Juvenile Justice, Violence
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Wyatt, Lisa G.; Scragg, Benjamin S.; Stein, Jennifer Y. G.; Mishra, Punya – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2021
This case study, framed within a school-university partnership, highlights the tensions inherent to employing design-based approaches for educational change. The case illustrates core tensions between an abductive, open-ended, design-based approach to change versus more traditional (deductive/inductive) approaches to managing change in schools.…
Descriptors: Educational Change, School Restructuring, Design, College School Cooperation
Australian Government Department of Education and Training, 2016
This document is the result of the Australian Minister for Education and Training's request to the Higher Education Standards Panel for advisement of options to improve the transparency of higher education student admission policies, while minimizing regulatory impact. The Minister intends to improve the accessibility and comparability of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Admission Criteria, Accountability, Advisory Committees
Louisiana Department of Education, 2019
The purpose of this guide is to assist Local Education Agencies (referred to as "districts") and schools with creating an effective and efficient school health team--representing all ten components of the Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model, that focuses on the improvement and sustainment of a healthy school culture.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, School Culture, Educational Environment, Student Welfare
Hoerle, Heather – Independent School, 2014
Confident that understanding and employing new approaches to assessment is a top priority for admissions professionals, the Secondary School Admission Test Board (SSATB) recently launched a Think Tank on the Future of Admission Assessment, with a two-year timeline and a charge to educate its membership and inspire greater innovation in admissions…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Admissions Officers, Admission (School), Alternative Assessment
Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, 2013
The challenges facing public higher education are placing new demands and pressures on colleges and universities and those responsible for their governance and leadership. As higher education seeks to negotiate these and other 21st-century changes, the role of its "guardians" in stimulating change, supporting purposeful leadership, and…
Descriptors: Governing Boards, Capacity Building, State Legislation, State Government
Phillips, Loraine; Roach, David; Williamson, Celia – Liberal Education, 2014
In Texas, educators working to coordinate the efforts of fifty community colleges, thirty-eight universities, and six university systems are bringing the resources of the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) Liberal Education and America's Promise (LEAP) initiative to bear in order to ensure that the state's nearly 1.5…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, State Colleges, Intercollegiate Cooperation, Shared Resources and Services
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Hordern, Jim – Research Papers in Education, 2015
The higher skills policy of the UK New Labour Government emerged from the recommendations of the Leitch Review of Skills, and was implemented in England between 2007 and 2010. The policy aimed to encourage higher education (HE) institutions to engage with employers and employer representative bodies to design and deliver HE provision that…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Program Implementation, Ambiguity (Context), Conflict
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Black, Paul – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
This article considers lessons learnt through involvement in several assessment projects. Early experience, in university work and in school examinations, led to an opportunity to help establish a novel system of assessment for an innovative school curriculum. Different lessons were then learnt from work on a national survey of school students'…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Educational Change, Formative Evaluation, Summative Evaluation
Mayer, Alexander K.; Richburg-Hayes, Lashawn; Diamond, John – MDRC, 2015
Access to college has increased substantially over the last 50 years, but student success--defined as the combination of academic success and degree or certificate completion--has not kept pace. Student success, moreover, generally correlates with students' financial resources: Students from high-income families attend and complete college at…
Descriptors: Innovation, Access to Education, College Preparation, Advisory Committees
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Franz, Nancy K. – Journal of Public Scholarship in Higher Education, 2013
Graduate students are increasingly interested in community-based research and public scholarship. However, they often struggle to find faculty research mentors who fully understand or have been personally involved with this type of research and related scholarship. In fact, some graduate students are advised by graduate committee members to…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Suicide, Prevention, Mentors
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