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Robert Louis Kravitz – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study sought to examine the extent superintendent longevity relates to student performance as measured by graduation rates. Specifically, this study sought to examine how a district school superintendent's longevity provides conducive context through which student academic improvement programs, culture, and relationships could be established…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Correlation, School Districts, Academic Achievement
Margarita Otero-Díaz; Brandilynn Villarreal; Rafael Cuevas-Uribe; Jose Marin Jarrin; Maria I. Iturbide – Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, 2025
Universities continue to see equity gaps in retention and graduation rates for Latinx students. To enhance Latinx student success, a team of Latinx faculty at a HSI developed innovative programming for educators centered on creating culturally sustaining educational spaces for Latinx students. Creando Conciencia is an ESCALA Educational Services,…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, College Students, Academic Persistence, Graduation Rate
Wendy J. Smith – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Colleges and universities continue to experience growth in their online programs, yet retention, persistence, and graduation rates of adult online learners remain problematic. However, only some higher education institutions offer professional development specifically on teaching adult learners online to address the long-standing issue. This…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Academic Persistence, School Holding Power, Graduation Rate
Emily Germain; Anna Maier; Daniel Espinoza – Learning Policy Institute, 2025
This brief highlights lessons learned from New Mexico's investment in community schools. Drawing on profiles of three sites that received state implementation grants, we find that community schools implementing the key practices at the center of New Mexico's community schools framework are seeing improvement across a range of indicators, including…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Profiles, Scores, Graduation Rate
Liza Estupin – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Within California, there are high numbers of Multilingual Language Learners (MLLs) that populate California public schools that require special programs and services to ensure their academic, language, and social success. According to the Public Policy Institute of California (2023), nearly 25 percent or 1.4 million of the students in California…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, English Language Learners, Public Schools, Academic Achievement
Nimisha Barton; Zitsi Mirakhur – About Campus, 2025
The last decade has seen tremendous growth in the proportion of students of color among undergraduates in the United States, and yet racial inequalities persist when it comes to enrollment at top-tier universities, college completion rates, and the concentration of student loan debt following college graduation. In this article, the authors point…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Minority Group Students, Equal Education, Racial Factors
Vimbainashe Mhiribidi Chanakira – ProQuest LLC, 2023
There is a high dropout rate of English language learners (ELLs) compared to non-ELLs at the school under study. Guided by Bass and Burns's transformational leadership conceptual framework, this qualitative study aimed to examine the perceptions of administrators and teachers regarding the influences contributing to the high dropout rate of ELLs.…
Descriptors: Dropout Rate, English Language Learners, Administrator Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes
Carey Schroyer – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Low persistence and high attrition rates in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are major challenges in higher education, particularly among underrepresented students. Therefore, it is important to identify barriers and examine strategies aimed at improving persistence, retention, and student completion in STEM courses and…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Higher Education, Barriers, Academic Persistence
Terrence Narinesingh – Online Submission, 2023
This study introduces the Strategic Universal Design for Learning Course Development Framework™ (S-UDLCD™), the S-UDLCD™ Framework for Student Success™, and the Narinesingh Traffic Light Model™--three integrated, data-driven models designed to improve student retention, engagement, and instructional effectiveness in K-12 and higher education…
Descriptors: Access to Education, School Holding Power, Learner Engagement, Elementary Secondary Education
Alexander, Nicola A.; Jang, Sung Tae – Journal of Education Finance, 2019
We examined professional development spending among Minnesota school districts and explored: (1) the level and variation in spending among districts; (2) associations between expenditures on professional development and district characteristics, including ethnic divergence between faculty and students; and (3) associations between professional…
Descriptors: Expenditures, Faculty Development, Educational Finance, Racial Differences
Kirp, David; Wechsler, Marjorie; Gardner, Madelyn; Ali, Titilayo Tinubu – Oxford University Press, 2022
"Disrupting Disruption" shows how three racially and ethnically diverse school districts--Union NJ, Union City OK, and Roanoke City VA--have defied the demographic odds, boosting overall graduation rates while shrinking or eliminating the opportunity gap. These districts resemble many others in their student population. What makes them…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Ethnicity, Race, Student Diversity
Gallagher, H. Alix; Cottingham, Benjamin W.; O'Meara, Kiley – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2022
During the 2020-2021 school year, the Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE) examined two hubs leading continuous improvement networks focused on increasing the rate at which students are on track to graduate high school positioned for postsecondary success. Both hubs offered: (1) coaching, with expectation of monthly meetings; (2)…
Descriptors: School Districts, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, Educational Improvement
Ilana M. Umansky; Nami Shin; Karen D. Thompson; Janette Avelar; Jaclyn Bovee – National Research and Development Center to Improve Education for Secondary English Learners at WestEd, 2024
This policy brief explores the extent to which students classified as English learners (ELs) are excluded from core content in high school. Using statewide data from Oregon (2013/14-2018/19) and Michigan (2011/12-2014/15), the percentages of current, former, and never ELs enrolled in any class in each core content area were tabulated and gaps in…
Descriptors: English Learners, Access to Education, Course Selection (Students), Track System (Education)
OECD Publishing, 2021
Widespread school closures affected over one billion students during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The vocational education and training (VET) sector has faced particular challenges during the crisis, most notably the fact that the digital learning environments that most education institutions had to rely on during closures don't work…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Vocational Education, School Closing
Miller, Abby; Clery, Sue – American Association of State Colleges and Universities, 2023
America's regional public universities provide the opportunity for upward social mobility, or the generational movement of wealth, education, employment status, social adjustment, democratic participation, and general well-being. A college degree is generally thought of as the ticket to social mobility for individuals, and collectively, higher…
Descriptors: State Universities, Social Mobility, Educational Attainment, Higher Education