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Colleen Hroncich; Jamie Buckland – Cato Institute, 2024
Unlike vouchers and tax credit scholarships that do not allow parents to customize their children's education, Education savings accounts (ESAs) provide funding to pay for part-time classes at public and private schools, tutoring, curricula, services for special needs, and more. As navigating the opportunities that come with ESAs can be difficult,…
Descriptors: Educational Change, School Choice, Educational Vouchers, Best Practices
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Hefler, Günter; Steinheimer, Eva – Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning, 2020
This contribution focuses on Austria and its response to Youth Guarantee (YG) by explaining the reasons of the Austrian government not to participate in the YG, but to continue using a significant part of ESF funding for the 2014-2020 period for programmes with a high intake of young adults. This chapter therefore explores the specifics of an…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Program Descriptions, Educational Finance, Financial Support
Eliot Levine – Aurora Institute, 2024
The Mastery-Based Learning Collaborative (MBLC) is a demonstration project taking place in 47 schools across Washington to help decision makers understand what quality mastery-based (or competency-based) learning looks like, how long it takes to implement, and what resources are necessary. The schools receive funding, coaching, and professional…
Descriptors: Mastery Learning, Program Descriptions, Decision Making, Educational Quality
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Canbulat, Mehmet; Direkci, Bekir; Simsek, Emine Ela; Simsek, Bilal – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2020
Purpose: Turkey has gained a new education policy together with the introduction of 2023 Educational Vision. With this motivation, the Antalya Provincial Directorate of National Education has started a project entitled "School 2023" to contribute to the goals of this vision. This research aimed at examining the opinions of the teachers,…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Case Studies, Content Analysis, Program Evaluation
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Egalite, Anna J.; Fusarelli, Lance; Barriga, M. Daniela; Antoszyk, Emily; Stallings, D. T. – Journal of School Choice, 2020
We examine how low-income parents who apply for North Carolina's Opportunity Scholarship program navigate major obstacles to their full participation in this means-tested private school choice program. Using a mixed-methods approach, this study draws upon administrative data from the state agency that oversees the program, surveys of every…
Descriptors: School Choice, Costs, Low Income Groups, Scholarships
Klaus, Sarah – Open Society Foundations, 2020
Since the early 1990s, the Open Society Foundations have supported early childhood development, recognizing it as a prerequisite for sustainable political and social change--with a focus not only on young children, but on parents, caregivers, and the wider community. This report commemorates the Open Society Early Childhood Program, which, from…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Social Change, Childrens Rights
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Pence, Alan – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2021
The Investigating Quality (IQ) Project was conceptualized as a multiple systems approach to transforming early childhood education, care, and development (ECE/ECD) in British Columbia, Canada. Those systems extended from provincial government to local programs, from innovative policies to new approaches to practice. Fortunately, the tenure of the…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Preschool Education, Educational Policy, Educational Innovation
Merrill, Lisa – Research Alliance for New York City Schools, 2020
Earning a college degree is widely recognized as the most reliable pathway to economic stability (Carnevale, Smith, & Strohl, 2013). But it is known from a wide range of research that access to college is neither easy nor equitable, and that traditionally underrepresented students (including low-income students and Black and Latino students)…
Descriptors: Mentors, Social Emotional Learning, College Attendance, Access to Education
Moss, G.; Bradbury, A.; Braun, A.; Duncan, S.; Levy, R. – Institute of Education - London, 2021
The COVID pandemic has led to a prolonged period of educational disruption with few precedents from the recent past to guide recovery. The Institute of Education's project, "Learning Through Disruption," set out to explore the knowledge schools have acquired from working with children and families during the crisis. The authors found…
Descriptors: School Districts, COVID-19, Pandemics, Teaching Methods
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Moran, James D., III.; Wells, Marilyn J.; Smith-Aumen, Angela – New Directions for Higher Education, 2015
This chapter describes undergraduate research expansion in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) in the context of both fiscal and student enrollment challenges.
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Educational Research, Research Projects, Educational Change
John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities, 2020
Located in East Oakland, Bridges Academy serves nearly 430 students, the majority of whom are Spanish speakers. Students who are considered socio-economically disadvantaged comprise 98% of the population and English Learners make up 83%. The school also hosts one of Oakland Unified School District's (OUSD) bilingual programs. In 2016, Bridges…
Descriptors: School Districts, Spanish Speaking, Low Income Groups, Student Centered Learning
Clymer, Carol; Toso, Blaire Willson; Grinder, Elisabeth; Sauder, Ruth Parrish – Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy, 2017
"Changing the Course of Family Literacy" re-examines the importance and value of family literacy programming and offers several policy recommendations to focus attention on the four-component model used in Even Start. This paper explores the current status of Family literacy and, after gathering information from 47 states, found that 11…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Literacy Education, Family Programs, Partnerships in Education
McCrone, Tami; Sims, David; Gladding, Cath – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2016
Apprenticeships are currently undergoing reform in England. Funding mechanisms and the content of Apprenticeship programmes are being restructured. NFER and the Association of Employment and Learning Providers (AELP) have carried out a joint research project to inform future policy and practice with evidence on how providers of Apprenticeships are…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Guidelines
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Millard, Luke; Hargreaves, Janet – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2015
Innovations within higher education are often prompted through the capture of supportive funding. One of the largest examples of this arose from the Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETLs) initiative in England (2005-2010). Drawing on the experience of two such Centres, this paper analyses some of the consequences of that funding.…
Descriptors: Creativity, Financial Support, Educational Change, Educational Innovation
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Brandon, Toby; Charlton, Joyce – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2011
This paper explores the development, in both practical and theoretical terms, of the Centre for Excellence in Teacher Training (CETT) based at Northumbria University. This is the only one of 11 new centres in England focusing on inclusive learning. CETTs are a critical component of a range of government reforms to teacher training within the…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Adult Education, Foreign Countries, Financial Support
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