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Jing Tang; Kara Ulmen; Sara Amadon; Katie Richards; Gabriella Guerra; Ja’Chelle Ball; Carlise King; Dale Richards – Child Trends, 2024
The preschool landscape is complex, consisting of several publicly funded programs supported by federal, state, and local funds. Included in this landscape is Head Start, a critical early childhood education (ECE) program that serves--in every state and territory--young children in families with incomes at or below the federal poverty line,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Low Income Students, Social Services, Federal Programs
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Cornman, Stephen Q.; O'Reilly, Nora; Ampadu, Osei; Caskey, Melinda; Vidal, Phil – National Center for Education Statistics, 2022
In 2019, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) began exploratory data collection for the School Pension Survey (SPS). The SPS is a new data collection of elementary/secondary school teacher pension data collected at the school district level. The SPS was developed primarily in response to public demand for data on teacher and other…
Descriptors: Retirement Benefits, Teacher Retirement, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
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Stewart, Joshua; Joyce, Jeanette; Haines, Mckenzie; Yanoski, David; Gagnon, Douglas; Luke, Kyle; Rhoads, Christopher; Germeroth, Carrie – Regional Educational Laboratory Central, 2021
Program evaluation is important for assessing the implementation and outcomes of local, state, and federal programs. The Program Evaluation Toolkit provides tools and resources to support individuals responsible for evaluating and monitoring local, state, or federal programs. The toolkit comprises eight modules that cover critical steps in program…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, State Programs, Federal Programs
Isaac, James; Velez, Erin; Roberson, Amanda Janice – Institute for Higher Education Policy, 2023
Students, families, colleges, and lawmakers need clearer information on postsecondary outcomes to make informed decisions. By leveraging data available at institutions and federal agencies, a nationwide student-level data network (SLDN) would close information gaps that persist in our higher education landscape to answer critical questions about…
Descriptors: College Students, Data, Information Networks, Program Design
MDRC, 2018
This issue brief describes the programs and systems of the MDRC Center for Data Insights. Ranging from simple descriptive summaries to advanced machine learning algorithms, the Center's eight current projects aim to use institutions' increasingly rich data to provide new insights that can help refine and target their client's services: (1)…
Descriptors: Family Programs, Federal Programs, Welfare Services, State Aid
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Pizzolato, Jane Elizabeth; Olson, Avery B. – Journal of College Student Development, 2016
Through a year-long study of welfare-to-work students in the community college CalWORKs program, we investigated what self-authorship development looks like by examining developmental progress, and whether there are patterns in development along the three dimensions of self-authorship. Findings demonstrate progress toward self-authorship, but…
Descriptors: Individual Development, Welfare Recipients, Welfare Services, Poverty Programs
Derrick-Mills, Teresa; Winkler, Mary K.; Healy, Olivia; Greenberg, Erica – Administration for Children & Families, 2015
Head Start has long focused on assessing and improving program quality to ensure that the children served receive the best possible preparation for school and life. Most research has been focused inside the classroom--the classroom environment, teacher qualifications, and teacher interactions. Of course, the classroom is important because that is…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Federal Programs, Preschool Children, Disadvantaged Youth
Miller, Tiffany D.; Hanna, Robert – Center for American Progress, 2014
Race to the Top (RTT) is a first-of-its kind $4.35 billion competitive grant program designed to spur state-level education innovation to boost student achievement, close achievement gaps, and prepare students for college and careers. Originally authorized in 2009 under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, RTT encourages states to develop…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Federal Programs, Federal Aid
Fredericks, Juliane R. – ProQuest LLC, 2015
This study focused on the federal and Illinois State the reform legislation titled the Performance Evaluation Reform Act and Senate Bill 7. The Performance Evaluation Reform Act or "PERA" was created from collaboration between stakeholders as Illinois competed in a federal competition titled "Race to the Top." The legislation…
Descriptors: Political Influences, Educational Change, Federal Government, Educational Legislation
Rhim, Lauren Morando – Academic Development Institute, 2013
Locally controlled public schools are one of the cornerstones of our nation's democracy, yet many schools are not preparing students for success. Far too many students are not graduating, and many of those who do graduate are woefully unprepared for college or a meaningful career. Successfully initiating and sustaining meaningful improvements in…
Descriptors: Governing Boards, Boards of Education, Accountability, Educational Change
Hulleman, Chris S.; Cordray, David S. – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2010
This paper outlines a method of determining the achieved relative strength (ARS) of an intervention by calculating the extent to which core intervention components are present in both the treatment and control condition. Using data from several examples the authors demonstrate how to calculate ARS indices, and subsequently how to incorporate them…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Instruction, Sample Size, Data Collection
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Gundersen, Craig; Kreider, Brent – Journal of Human Resources, 2008
Policymakers have been puzzled to observe that food stamp households appear more likely to be food insecure than observationally similar eligible nonparticipating households. We reexamine this issue allowing for nonclassical reporting errors in food stamp participation and food insecurity. Extending the literature on partially identified…
Descriptors: Security (Psychology), Poverty, Family (Sociological Unit), Measurement Techniques
Jones, Joseph; Southern, Kyle – CNA Corporation, 2011
Federal education policy in recent years has encouraged state and local education agencies to embrace data use and analysis in decision-making, ranging from policy development and implementation to performance evaluation. The capacity of these agencies to make effective and methodologically sound use of collected data for these purposes remains an…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Grants, Educational Policy, Federal Programs
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Taylor, Rosemarye T.; Moxley, Dale; Boulware, Don – ERS Spectrum, 2007
In this article, the authors explore which conditions support the success of literacy coaches. Because the literacy coach position is a relatively new one, this article examines some of the questions related to designing and implementing the position of the literacy coach, and the potential influence of the position on student achievement. The…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Participation, Literacy, Academic Achievement
Bell, Loren; Kenyon, Anne; Heinrich, Todd; Zullo, Dea – US Department of Agriculture, 2004
This report is a followup to an initiative to establish a central website to collect data from States on the National School Lunch and the School Breakfast Programs. A central website could be used by researchers and program administrators to compare and analyze data across State and local areas for participation trends in local school district…
Descriptors: Food, Data Collection, Breakfast Programs, Nutrition
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