Publication Date
In 2025 | 0 |
Since 2024 | 0 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 1 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 4 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 12 |
Descriptor
Educational Change | 73 |
Parent Participation | 73 |
Program Evaluation | 73 |
Elementary Secondary Education | 30 |
Academic Achievement | 19 |
Program Effectiveness | 14 |
Educational Improvement | 13 |
School Districts | 13 |
Urban Schools | 11 |
Change Strategies | 10 |
Partnerships in Education | 10 |
More ▼ |
Source
Author
Howley-Rowe, Caitlin | 3 |
Curry, Janice | 2 |
Englund, Michelle M. | 2 |
Hayakawa, Momoko | 2 |
Helge, Doris | 2 |
Reynolds, Arthur J. | 2 |
Annarino, Pauline | 1 |
Anson, Ron | 1 |
Babcock, Shawna | 1 |
Baldwin, Peter | 1 |
Ben-Avie, Michael, Ed. | 1 |
More ▼ |
Publication Type
Education Level
Elementary Secondary Education | 5 |
Early Childhood Education | 3 |
Elementary Education | 3 |
Primary Education | 2 |
Grade 3 | 1 |
Grade 4 | 1 |
Grade 5 | 1 |
High Schools | 1 |
Intermediate Grades | 1 |
Middle Schools | 1 |
Audience
Practitioners | 2 |
Administrators | 1 |
Policymakers | 1 |
Location
Illinois | 3 |
Kentucky | 3 |
California | 2 |
Canada | 2 |
Minnesota | 2 |
New Jersey | 2 |
South Carolina | 2 |
United Kingdom (England) | 2 |
United Kingdom (Scotland) | 2 |
Alabama | 1 |
Arizona | 1 |
More ▼ |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Does not meet standards | 1 |
Stevens, Zachary; Grimwood, Bryan S. R.; Babcock, Shawna; Meissner, Carly – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2020
Contemporary environmental crises are often attributable to a growing disconnect between humans and the natural world. One potential solution to this disconnect, as it relates to children, is the naturalizing of school playgrounds. This paper seeks to contextualize the impacts of a school ground naturalization program on the outdoor play and…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Play, Outdoor Education, Playgrounds
Klepper, Rachel – History of Education Quarterly, 2023
This article explores the All-Day Neighborhood Schools (ADNS) program, operated as a partnership between the New York City Board of Education and local philanthropists from 1936 to 1971. Designed to expand the resources available to children and parents, the program included after-school activities, additional teachers, professional development,…
Descriptors: Neighborhood Schools, Extended School Day, Educational History, Program Evaluation
Reynolds, Arthur J.; Hayakawa, Momoko; Ou, Suh-Ruu; Mondi, Christina F.; Englund, Michelle M.; Candee, Allyson J.; Smerillo, Nicole E. – Child Development, 2017
We describe the development, implementation, and evaluation of a comprehensive preschool to third grade prevention program for the goals of sustaining services at a large scale. The Midwest Child-Parent Center (CPC) Expansion is a multilevel collaborative school reform model designed to improve school achievement and parental involvement from ages…
Descriptors: Scaling, Sustainability, Program Development, Program Implementation
Smith, William C.; Rowland, Julie – Journal of School Choice, 2014
Parent trigger laws have gained momentum nationally under the premise that they will increase local authority by amplifying parental voice in the decision to turn around "failing" schools. Using Hirschman's exit, voice, and loyalty framework we create two conceptual models of voice and evaluate the promise of voice in California, home of…
Descriptors: Decision Making, School Choice, School Law, Parent Participation
Hayakawa, Momoko; Englund, Michelle M.; Candee, Allyson; Lease, Erin; Sullivan, Molly; Warner-Richter, Mallory; Reynolds, Arthur J. – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2015
The Midwest Expansion of the Child-Parent Center Education Program (MCPC) is a pre-K to 3rd grade intervention program aimed at improving economically disadvantaged children's school success by enhancing continuity in instruction and increasing parental involvement. Opened in Chicago in the 1960s, this school reform model has undergone significant…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Partnerships in Education, Intervention, Parent Participation
Annarino, Pauline; Coyle, Jennifer; Johnson, Cheryl DeConde; Kolvita, Marcia; Thomas, Della W. – pepnet 2, 2017
After decades, the concept of "how to change the status quo of deaf education" continues to dazzle and frustrate us intellectually and academically. We want deaf and hard of hearing students to achieve academically and to thrive in the world as adults. Yet, too often, test scores and post-school outcomes remain unacceptably low. Our…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Educational Change, Academic Achievement
Block, Karen; Cross, Suzanne; Riggs, Elisha; Gibbs, Lisa – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2014
In a context of increasing numbers of refugees and asylum seekers globally, recognition of the importance of the school environment for promoting successful settlement outcomes and inclusion for refugee-background young people is growing. Yet schools may be poorly equipped to recognise and respond to the multiple challenges faced by children and…
Descriptors: Refugees, Inclusion, Educational Environment, School Support
Redd, Zakia; Princiotta, Daniel; Stratford, Brandon; Caal, Selma; Li, Weilin; Murphy, Kelly; Coffey, Amelia; Carrington, Nicholas; Carney, Rachel; Oster, Maryjo; Horton, Susannah – Child Trends, 2015
J.C. Nalle is a Community School located in the Marshall Heights neighborhood of Ward 7 in Washington, D.C. The community in which J.C. Nalle is located, historically one of the more economically disadvantaged areas of the city, has experienced a number of changes in recent years. This report of evaluation findings begins with an introduction to…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, Economically Disadvantaged, Community Schools, Partnerships in Education
Young, Viki M.; Humphrey, Daniel C.; Wang, Haiwen; Bosetti, Kristin R.; Cassidy, Lauren; Wechsler, Marjorie E.; Rivera, Elizabeth; Murray, Samantha; Schanzenbach, Diane Whitmore – Consortium on Chicago School Research, 2009
Chicago's Renaissance 2010 seeks to create 100 new and autonomous schools by 2010. These new schools are expected to increase choice for parents and students, enact innovative practices, and help create a portfolio of schools designed to make the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) more diversified, responsive, and effective. Renaissance Schools Fund…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Achievement Gains, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation
Gunn, Thelma M.; Chorney, David W.; Poulsen, John C. – Journal of At-Risk Issues, 2009
Since 1999, the Alberta Initiative for School Improvement (AISI) has provided funding to provincial school authorities for projects designed to improve student learning and performance. Conducted in three-year cycles, this unique approach has successfully helped to initiate approximately 1,600 grassroots projects led by school districts, teachers,…
Descriptors: High Schools, At Risk Students, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Haro, Analee; Yoon, Ruth – 2000
The Los Angeles Annenberg Metropolitan Project (LAAMP) has several initiatives, including Parents as Learning Partners (PLP), that attempt to assist parents and schools to work collaboratively in order to increase student achievement. Using PLP, one of LAAMP's major parent engagement initiatives, as a model, this paper discusses using both…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization
Jamentz, Kate – 2001
This document introduces a new school accountability mechanism, the Accountability Dialogue. An Accountability Dialogue brings together educators, parents, and the larger school community to: (1) establish standards for school and student performance; (2) determine how the school is doing in relation to those standards; (3) investigate the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Laughran, Laura J.; Shaw, Jerome M. – 1996
The Arizona Journey Schools Program (JSP) was a two-year professional development experience whose stated purpose was to build the leadership capacity of school/community teams and establish a network of professionals to support teams as they bring about systemic change in mathematics and science teaching, learning, and assessment. This report…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Involvement, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
David, Jane L. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1994
Two years into five-year study of school-based decision making under Kentucky Education Reform Act, preliminary findings offer guidance and warnings considering decentralization. Across state, number of parents running for school councils and voting in elections is small. Most councils consist of six people with little teamwork or representative…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Decentralization, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Boss, Suzie – Northwest Education, 1999
Describes reforms at Berniss Elementary School (Spokane, Washington) from 1992 to 1999. A Title I school serving poor and immigrant neighborhoods, Berniss showed dramatic improvements in standardized test scores. Reform strategies included hiring four facilitators as peer coaches to encourage reform, changing teaching methods to promote active…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Schools, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Change, Educational Improvement