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Direct linkMark H. Newton; Leonard A. Annetta – Science & Education, 2025
Climate change is a nuanced global issue with a scope that is often difficult to fully appreciate. This study examined an undergraduate course focused on the impacts and responses to climate change on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, USA. The course utilized a socioscientific issues (SSI) approach to examine global climate change in a local…
Descriptors: Climate, Science Education, Environmental Education, Field Experience Programs
Travaris G. Hicks – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this causal-comparative, ex post facto quantitative study was to determine "What are the differences in third-grade reading at the college and career readiness level in charter schools compared to traditional public schools?" The study took place in North Carolina charter and traditional public schools. The sample…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Reading Achievement, Career Readiness, College Readiness
Download full textBrian Phillips; Julie A. Edmunds; Fatih Unlu; Elizabeth Glennie; Christine Mulhern – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2025
Early colleges are high schools that blend the high school and college experiences. They have been shown to increase college enrollment and completion; however less is known about the costs of the early college model relative to traditional high schools. We leverage randomized assignment of North Carolina students to early colleges to estimate the…
Descriptors: Costs, Educational Benefits, High Schools, Higher Education
Eileen McAnneny; Andrew Hunter, Contributor – Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research, 2025
The purpose of this report is to provide readers with a comparative analysis of the Massachusetts workforce "system" structures and performance reporting processes compared to other states. Though the federal workforce development system is often examined in its entirety and individual state systems are at times examined independently,…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Comparative Analysis, Labor Market, Federal Regulation
Lauren Sartain; William Zahran; Ethan Hutt; Daniel Klasik; Wesley Morris – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2023
The pandemic has been an unprecedented disruption to the lives of college students and the operation of higher education institutions. Students' performance during the pandemic was likely influenced by the hardship they personally experienced, how easily they adapted to remote teaching (including technology access), and their professors' ability…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Pass Fail Grading, COVID-19, Pandemics
Justice, Scot; Helms, Alex; Hermanson, Dana – Journal of School Choice, 2023
We survey 137 charter school administrators and 129 board members and find that U.S. charter school internal controls are perceived to be relatively strong overall. However, board independence, board communication of internal control responsibilities to school personnel, lines of communication between the board and school personnel, and reporting…
Descriptors: School Choice, Charter Schools, Administrator Attitudes, Boards of Education
Goodson, Drew Michael – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Upward transfer is the process by which students begin their higher education at a Community College or other two-year institution and then transfer to a four-year institution to complete their bachelor degree. Community Colleges enroll 45% of all undergraduates in the United States, or approximately 7.7 million students (AACC, 2015). From their…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Universities, Community College Students, Institutional Mission
Rhea, Anisa – Wake County Public School System, 2023
Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) SCORE Academy is an alternative learning high school composed of two distinct programs. SCORE Academy Re-engagement (A) serves students who are 16 to 21 years old and need to earn between one and 10 credits toward graduation. SCORE Academy Reassignment (B) serves students who have been reassigned by the…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, High School Students, Program Evaluation, Credits
Baek, Seunghyun – ProQuest LLC, 2023
With a growing interest in Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) in education (Goldberg et al., 2019; Gordon et al., 2016; Todd et al., 2022), schools have been positioned as effective settings for SEL development of students (Nielsen et al., 2015). As the potential of Physical Education (PE) to promote student learning in social and affective…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Social Emotional Learning, Rural Schools, Sustainability
Romano, Richard M.; D'Amico, Mark M. – Association for Institutional Research, 2021
A commonly used metric for measuring college costs, drawn from data in the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), is expenditure per full-time equivalent (FTE) student. This article discusses an error in this per FTE calculation when using IPEDS data, especially with regard to community colleges. The problem is that expenditures…
Descriptors: Noncredit Courses, Enrollment, Community Colleges, Institutional Characteristics
Chris Ryan Nesbitt – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study explored the best testing practices for the NC Basic Law Enforcement Training (BLET) to determine preparedness for entry-level law enforcement officers. The researcher implemented a mixed-methods approach to answer five research questions based on collected historical data from Rowan-Cabarrus Community College, the North Carolina…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Law Enforcement, Police Education, High Stakes Tests
Neitzel, Jennifer; Early, Diane; Sideris, John; LaForrett, Doré; Abel, Michael B.; Soli, Margaret; Davidson, Dawn L.; Haboush-Deloye, Amanda; Hestenes, Linda L.; Jenson, Denise; Johnson, Cindy; Kalas, Jennifer; Mamrak, Angela; Masterson, Marie L.; Mims, Sharon U.; Oya, Patti; Philson, Bobbi; Showalter, Megan; Warner-Richter, Mallory; Kortright Wood, Jill – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2019
The Early Childhood Environment Rating Scales, including the "Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale--Revised" (Harms et al., 2005) and the "Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale, Third Edition" (Harms et al., 2015) are the most widely used observational assessments in early childhood learning environments. The most recent…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality, Scoring
Holshouser, Kaitlyn Otey – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This comparative case study explored the implementation of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) at two of North Carolina's Global Ready elementary schools. The following research questions guided the study: 1) How do educators and affiliates of Global Ready elementary schools perceive global education, specifically Education for Sustainable…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Sustainable Development, Global Education, Elementary School Students
Harbatkin, Erica – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2023
Recruiting and retaining effective teachers is critical to school turnaround. However, research on how improving educator quality in low-performing schools contributes to school improvement is largely situated in urban settings. This study examines staffing practices through a descriptive analysis of the first cohort of Comprehensive Support and…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, Rural Schools, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Effectiveness
Kirsten Slungaard Mumma – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation consists of three essays in the economics of education. The first essay considers the impact of charter school openings on student achievement, behavior, and demographics in the traditional public sector. Using longitudinal school- and student-level data, I estimate the effect of charter school openings on traditional public…
Descriptors: Economics, Charter Schools, Academic Achievement, Student Behavior
