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Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center, 2022
This briefing paper explores Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH) policies and practices that state early intervention (Part C) programs may consider implementing to meet the social-emotional and mental health needs of infants and toddlers in the context of relationships with their parents and other caregivers.
Descriptors: Mental Health, Social Development, Emotional Development, Infants
Complete College America, 2021
This report is focused on both introducing corequisite support to institutional leaders looking for new approaches to addressing remediation and offering new insights that can deepen practice for those who are already at work implementing the model. Following previous reports on the corequisite model, "No Room for Doubt" outlines a…
Descriptors: Remedial Programs, Developmental Studies Programs, Program Effectiveness, Program Implementation
Achieve, Inc., 2018
There is a growing body of research that suggests the first year of high school is a critical transition point for students. It also finds course-taking and successful completion of those courses in 9th grade to be valuable predictors of students' success in high school. The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) provides states an opportunity to…
Descriptors: Statewide Planning, State Policy, Educational Policy, Program Implementation
Advance CTE: State Leaders Connecting Learning to Work, 2019
From 2016 through 2019, 10 states strengthened their career readiness systems through the New Skills for Youth initiative (NSFY), a $75 million national investment by JPMorgan Chase & Co. to enhance state efforts to increase the number of learners across the country who are prepared for success in both college and career. As part of this…
Descriptors: Career Readiness, State Programs, Vocational Education, Equal Education
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Neel, Marcia MacCagno – Arts Education Policy Review, 2017
Districts nationwide are challenged with how best to address the needs of an increasing number of non-English or limited-English speaking students. These young people are similarly challenged as they face new environs, unfamiliar cultural settings, and significant communication issues. Findings have indicated that an arts-rich education can assist…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Spanish Speaking, Music, Music Education
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Barone, Diane – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2013
This article reports on Nevada's Reading First program and positions it as a source of reflection for future worldwide literacy reform efforts. Qualitative methodology was used for this analysis. Students' literacy achievement improved throughout the program until the last year of implementation. Students who remained at a Reading First school…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Reading Programs, Academic Achievement, Elementary Education
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Bensimon, Estela Mara; Dowd, Alicia C.; Longanecker, David; Witham, Keith – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2012
The nation is in an era of policy reform aimed at improving the productivity and effectiveness of higher education. Major philanthropies and policy groups have converged around variations of the ambitious college completion goals announced by President Obama at the beginning of his administration. But at the same time, many state governments,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Graduation Rate, School Holding Power
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Harr-Robins, Jenifer J.; Shambaugh, Larisa S.; Parrish, Tom – Regional Educational Laboratory West, 2009
Response to intervention (RTI) can be both a system for providing early interventions to struggling students and a special education diagnostic tool for evaluating and identifying students with specific learning disabilities. Contributing to the very limited literature on state-level approaches, this report describes how nine states define and…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Educational Diagnosis, Learning Disabilities, State Programs
Bradshaw, Dean H.; Brown, Patricia R. – 1989
Designed to help educators and policymakers consider the effective use of currently-evolving distance learning technologies, this policy brief examines: (1) the need for distance learning; (2) the most promising combinations of technologies (two-way television, one-way television with audio return, and audiographics); (3) the cost-effectiveness of…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Cost Effectiveness, Distance Education, Educational Policy