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Shand, Robert; Levin, Henry M. – National Education Policy Center, 2021
School vouchers, a school choice policy that allows students and families to use public funds to fully or partially pay the cost of attending private schools, became a major area of policy debate once again during Betsy DeVos's tenure as United States Secretary of Education. Recent evaluations have found negative impacts of vouchers on academic…
Descriptors: Educational Vouchers, Educational Finance, School Choice, Cost Effectiveness
Nicole Stelle Garnett; Michael Q. McShane – Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 2023
Over the last two years, seven states have enacted new universal education savings account (ESA) programs or have expanded existing programs to universal or near-universal eligibility. Parental-choice advocates, who have labored for decades to make incremental inroads toward achieving greater educational freedom for families. However, the authors…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Money Management, Barriers, Parent Role
National Academies Press, 2022
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) -- often called "The Nation's Report Card" -- is the largest nationally representative and continuing assessment of what students in public and private schools in the United States know and can do in various subjects and has provided policy makers and the public with invaluable…
Descriptors: Costs, Futures (of Society), National Competency Tests, Educational Trends
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Addey, Camilla – Critical Studies in Education, 2017
Setting this paper against the backdrop of scholarly research on recent changes in the OECD's approach and workings in education, I analyse how the OECD has reinforced its infrastructural and epistemological global governance through the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) for Development (PISA-D). Drawing on qualitative data,…
Descriptors: Global Education, Governance, International Assessment, Qualitative Research
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Claro, Magdalena; Jara, Ignacio – Digital Education Review, 2020
This article analyzes the reasons behind the end of the ICT in education policy (Enlaces) driven by the Chilean Ministry of Education for 25 years. The argument is that the institution that sought to give sustainability to this policy over time, ended up losing its ability to lead relevant responses to the educational challenges posed by the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational History, Information Technology
Harkness, Joseph; Logan, Christopher W.; Shivji, Azim; Nisar, Hiren; Connor, Patty – US Department of Agriculture, 2015
Section 104(a) of the Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act (HHFKA) of 2010 made the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) available to Local Educational Agencies (LEAs) and schools in high poverty areas. Under the CEP, families are not required to submit applications for free or reduced-price meals, and schools must provide free lunch and breakfast to…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Food, Federal Programs, Eligibility
Office of Inspector General, US Department of Education, 2018
The Indian Education -- Formula Grants to Local Education Agencies (Indian Education Formula Grant) program is authorized under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). It is the Department's principal vehicle for addressing the particular needs of Indian children. The program…
Descriptors: Grants, Federal Indian Relationship, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
Ng, Chin Leong Patrick – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2014
In 1966, the Singapore Government implemented the English-knowing bilingual policy which made it mandatory for all Chinese students to study English as a "First Language" and the Chinese language (CL) as a "Mother Tongue Language" in Singapore schools. Using key literature relevant to Singapore's bilingual educational policy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Native Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Chinese
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Turnbull, Brenda J.; White, Richard N.; Sinclair, Elizabeth; Riley, Derek L.; Pistorino, Carol – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2011
This final report presents findings from a multi-year evaluation of the Comprehensive Technical Assistance Centers, a federally funded program that provides technical assistance to states in connection with the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, as reauthorized by the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001. With the redesign of the Center…
Descriptors: Expertise, Program Design, Teacher Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education
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Turnbull, Brenda J.; White, Richard N.; Sinclair, Elizabeth; Riley, Derek L.; Pistorino, Carol – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2011
This final report presents findings from a multi-year evaluation of the Comprehensive Technical Assistance Centers, a federally funded program that provides technical assistance to states in connection with the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, as reauthorized by the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001. With the redesign of the Center…
Descriptors: Expertise, Program Design, Teacher Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education
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Bollmer, Julie; Cronin, Roberta; Brauen, Marsha; Howell, Bethany; Fletcher, Philip; Gonin, Rene; Jenkins, Frank – National Center for Special Education Research, 2010
The Study of Monitoring and Improvement Practices under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) examined how states monitored the implementation of IDEA by local special education and early intervention services programs. State monitoring and improvement practices in 2004-05 and 2006-07 were the focus of the study. Prior to the…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Early Intervention, Disabilities, Data Collection
Willner, Robin; And Others – 1981
The study by the Educational Priorities Panel, a coalition of 25 parent and civic organizations serving as an independent fiscal watchdog over New York City's Board of Education, examines the expenditures of the special education budget. Findings and recommendations are presented for each of four chapter topics (sample recommendations in…
Descriptors: Budgets, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Expenditures
Dallas Independent School District, TX. Dept. of Research and Evaluation. – 1980
Evaluation summaries for 56 programs implemented by The Dallas Independent School District during the 1979-80 school year are highlighted in this report. Each summary is listed under one of the following sections: Title I Projects; State Compensatory Education Projects; Emergency School Aid Act Projects; Title IV-C Projects; and Other Projects.…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Administration
Maxwell, Graham – 1978
The Special Projects (Innovations) Program of the Australian Schools Commission receives less funding than other programs of the commission but has been received more enthusiastically, perhaps because it encourages and supports local initiatives. Given the small scale and local derivation of the projects funded under the program, evaluation…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1985
The report presents information on the costs and operations of Gallaudet College, the Model Secondary School for the Deaf, Kendall Demonstration Elementary School, and the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID). Among findings were that the four institutions serve students having a high degree of deafness. Compared with similar types of…
Descriptors: Colleges, Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education, Expenditure per Student
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