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Rankin, David A.; Scott, Joyce A.; Kim, JoHyun – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2015
Prompted by changing demographics, economic pressures, and global competition, Texas and members of the Southern Regional Education Board adopted policies to boost minority enrollment and success in higher education around the turn of the century. This study draws upon IPEDS graduation rate data for a benchmark year, 2002, and for 2006 through…
Descriptors: State Policy, Postsecondary Education, Graduation Rate, Benchmarking
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Echon, Roger M. – Journal of Child Nutrition & Management, 2014
Purpose/Objectives: The purpose of this paper is to provide baseline data and characteristics of food served and consumed prior to the recently mandated nutrition standards as authorized by the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 (HHFKA). Methods: Over 600,000 school lunch menus with associated food production records from 61 elementary schools…
Descriptors: Lunch Programs, Food Service, Food Standards, Statistical Analysis
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Esquierdo, J. Joy; Arreguin-Anderson, Maria – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2012
The issue of underrepresentation in gifted and talented (GT) programs has developed into a critical educational concern. At the core are ambiguous identification assessment practices, especially for bilingual students. To illustrate, this article reports data from the last decade that supports the underrepresentation of gifted Hispanic bilingual…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Gifted, Disproportionate Representation, Minority Group Children
Sass, Tim R. – National Center on Scaling Up Effective Schools (NJ1), 2012
The core work of the National Center on Scaling Up Effective Schools consists of four stages: identifying practices of highly effective high schools, designing interventions and transfer of practices, evaluating the intervention's implementation and effects, and evaluating implementation at scale. The purpose of this report is to describe the…
Descriptors: Intervention, Educational Change, High Schools, Research Methodology
Martorell, Paco; McFarlin, Isaac, Jr. – Online Submission, 2010
Providing remedial (also known as developmental) education is the primary way colleges cope with students who do not have the academic preparation needed to succeed in college-level courses. Remediation is widespread, with nearly one-third of entering freshman taking remedial courses at a cost of at least $1 billion per year. Despite its…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Remedial Instruction, Labor Market, Outcomes of Education
Texas State Library, Austin. Dept. of Library Development. – 1986
Designed to provide librarians, library administrators, and other interested persons with information organized to facilitate comparisons of libraries within the same library system, with comparable service populations, and with comparable expenditures, this publication contains information derived from the 1985 Annual Report/System Membership…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Library Expenditures, Library Statistics, Public Libraries