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Anzelone, Caitlin Platania – MDRC, 2023
11 community colleges in New Jersey and two Historically Black Community Colleges (one in Alabama and one in Mississippi) joined the OnPath project, which had the goal to help community college students stay enrolled during the pandemic. OnPath facilitated a powerful combination of people and knowledge by bringing together college staff members…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Black Colleges, Academic Persistence, Dropout Prevention
Jenkins, Davis; Lahr, Hana; Brown, Amy E.; Mazzariello, Amy – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2019
Over the last several years, the guided pathways approach to whole-college redesign has become a national movement in community colleges. Approximately 300 colleges are implementing guided pathways reforms as part of formal state or national initiatives, and many more are doing so on their own. Some of the earliest colleges to implement guided…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Community Colleges, College Programs, Student Personnel Services
Brown, Amy E.; Lahr, Hana – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2019
In fall 2018, Community College Research Center (CCRC) researchers conducted site visits at eight community colleges implementing guided pathways to learn how they are managing the whole-college change process involved. These colleges are among the 30 nationally that were in the first cohort of the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC)…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Community Colleges, College Programs, Student Personnel Services
Owens, L.; James, B.; Smith-Lewis, E.; Preston, D. – Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute, UNCF, 2020
The CPI Mid-Term Assessment provides insights from the first two years of the United Negro College Fund (UNCF)® Career Pathways Initiative (CPI). The authors derived insights from a comprehensive view of the experience of UNCF's Institute for Capacity Building (ICB) and the network of institutions implementing the program. To facilitate continuous…
Descriptors: Career Pathways, Black Colleges, Program Effectiveness, College Curriculum
Dunn, Lenay; Ambroso, Eric – Center on School Turnaround at WestEd, 2019
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), passed in 2015, signaled a major shift in the roles of states and districts in supporting school improvement. Under ESSA, state education agencies (SEAs) and local education agencies (LEAs) have more responsibility and flexibility in developing and implementing plans, informed by local context, to support the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, State Departments of Education
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Burks, Brooke A.; Beziat, Tara L. R.; Danley, Sheree; Davis, Kashara; Lowery, Holly; Lucas, Jessica – Education, 2015
The current research study looked at secondary teachers' (grades 6-12) perceptions of their preparedness to implement the Common Core State Standards as well as their feelings about the training they have or have not received related to implementing the standards. The problem: Many conflicting views exist among teachers, parents, and others…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Program Implementation, Common Core State Standards
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Stephens, Wendy – Knowledge Quest, 2014
School librarians and other specialists should take note of the new wave of computer-based assessments required by the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), testing that is only now beginning to get off the ground. The new testing necessitates that districts possess the right hardware, install the requisite software, and, in some cases, create…
Descriptors: State Standards, Alignment (Education), School Libraries, Librarians
Anderson, Kimberly; Mira, Mary Elizabeth – Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2015
All of the states in this study have recently been involved in school accountability system reform. Since 2011, the states have taken advantage of a federal program to give them flexibility around certain requirements of the "No Child Left Behind Act" of 2001 (NCLB), the most recent reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary…
Descriptors: Accountability, State Policy, State Programs, State Standards
LaTurner, Jason; Lewis, Dale – SEDL, 2013
For a school improvement initiative to succeed, education leaders must do more than adopt a new program and train staff. This issue of "SEDL Insights" explores steps that leaders can take to ensure the successful implementation of a new program or practice.
Descriptors: School Turnaround, Program Implementation, Administrators, Leadership Effectiveness
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Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2011
The state's Race to the Top (RTT) application requires changes to the state's evaluation/accountability system. It requires a teacher effectiveness measure, district effectiveness measure, leader effectiveness measure. Regarding the teacher effectiveness measure, RTT requires linking the data of individual students to individual teachers as part…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Teacher Effectiveness, Accountability, Evidence
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Ross, Margaret E. – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2010
The Auburn University Educational Leadership Team and its K-12 practitioner and community partners collaboratively developed a comprehensive, on-going evaluation plan to assess a newly implemented field-based graduate program. The purpose of the present manuscript was to describe the evaluation guidelines and plans. The leadership team and…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Program Implementation, Evaluation Methods, Instructional Leadership
Eick, Charles J.; Ewald, Mary Lou; Richardson, Velma B.; Anderson, Karen – Science Educator, 2007
The authors argue that leadership networks when comprised of regional stakeholders including university faculty, school system administrators, and teacher leaders can begin to work together towards common reform goals. (Contains 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Science Education, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Teacher Leadership