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Stephanie West Wehrer – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The era of accountability and a rise in standardized testing during recent years have emerged from policy reform initiatives designed to increase student performance. While the goal was to increase learning standards, it has not yielded the dramatic improvements expected. This study explored if there was a statistically significant difference in…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Private Schools, Rural Schools, Christianity
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Lohmeier, Jill Hendrickson; Oh, Bangsil; Thompson, Shanna Rose; Newton, Xiaoxia – Preventing School Failure, 2022
Students who attend alternative high schools are considered at risk of not graduating. To graduate from high school, students need to obtain the appropriate number of credits. In this study, factors related to the attainment of credit by students in an alternative school during 2015-2019 were examined. Five factors had an effect on the number of…
Descriptors: High School Students, Nontraditional Education, Credits, Graduation Requirements
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Crouch, Luis; Olefir, Anna; Saeki, Hiroshi; Savrimootoo, Tanya – Prospects, 2022
This article is the fourth in a series arguing that there is serious mismeasurement of enrolment in early childhood development (ECD) and in the early grades of education systems in many countries, especially, and most damagingly, in those making the most progress on access to schooling and in the sustainable development goals. Other reports have…
Descriptors: Enrollment, Early Childhood Education, Grade Repetition, Developing Nations
Pileggi, Molly; Turner, Alyn; Liu, Lindsey; Fontana, Jason – Philadelphia Education Research Consortium, 2020
Nationally, credit recovery has been used as a strategy to encourage and enable students to re-take previously failed courses needed to graduate. The School District of Philadelphia (SDP) offers both in-person and online options for recovering failed or missing credits required for graduation. This study provides a snapshot of the district's…
Descriptors: Required Courses, Repetition, Urban Schools, Eligibility
Melinda Dyer – Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, 2024
The federal McKinney-Vento Act broadly defines homelessness in an effort to provide protections and supports for students living in a variety of unstable housing situations. This ensures school stability and continued enrollment at a time when a student's nighttime residence may be constantly changing. In Washington, the number of children and…
Descriptors: Homeless People, At Risk Students, School Districts, Enrollment
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Graham, Linda J. – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2020
This study analyses exclusion, enrolment cancellation, and suspension rates in government schools in the Australian state of Queensland to investigate the impact of legislation to extend principals' disciplinary powers. Results suggest that the provision of alternative disciplinary options, including Saturday detentions and community service,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Suspension, Social Isolation, Discipline
Ruffalo Noel Levitz, 2023
Parents and guardians are the biggest influencers on enrollment for students. Nearly all are invested and involved in the college search process with their students. But are colleges and universities really engaging them? Are they communicating the right information, with the right frequency, across the right channels? Are they helping families…
Descriptors: Parent Role, Access to Information, College Role, Information Dissemination
Melinda Dyer – Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, 2023
The federal McKinney-Vento Act defines homelessness broadly in an effort to provide protections and supports for students living in a variety of unstable housing situations. This ensures school stability and continued enrollment at a time when a student's nighttime residence may be constantly changing. In Washington, the number of children and…
Descriptors: Homeless People, At Risk Students, School Districts, Enrollment
Illinois State Board of Education, 2022
The Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) is committed to the cognitive, linguistic, and socio-emotional development of all children in Illinois. ISBE's Multilingual Department is focused on ensuring that students with diverse linguistic repertoires and those who may benefit from additional support have equitable access to academic instruction…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Enrollment, Preschool Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Houston Independent School District, 2019
Each year, the Houston Independent School District (HISD) offers a summer education program designed to assist students with a variety of instructional needs. Centrally coordinated summer school programs in 2019 included accelerated instruction for State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) and STAAR End-of-Course (EOC) re-testers;…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Student Promotion, Grade Repetition
Gordon, Nora – Center on Children and Families at Brookings, 2017
The subgroup requirements for accountability in the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) were designed to reveal underperformance of disadvantaged groups that could otherwise be hidden in aggregate averages. Both NCLB and its successor, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), left the choice of minimum subgroup size at the school level (n-size) for…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Disadvantaged Youth
Illinois State Board of Education, 2020
The Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) is committed to the cognitive, linguistic, and socio-emotional development of all children in Illinois. ISBE's Multilingual Department is focused on ensuring that students with diverse linguistic repertoires and those who may benefit from additional support have equitable access to academic instruction…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Enrollment, Bilingual Education, Counties
Santibanez, Lucrecia; Guarino, Cassandra – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2020
In March 2020, most schools in the United States closed their doors and transitioned to distance learning in an effort to contain COVID-19. During the transition a significant number of students did not fully engage in these learning opportunities due to resource or other constraints. An urgent question for schools around the nation is how much…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Distance Education
Holzman, Brian; Salazar, Esmeralda Sánchez; Chukhray, Irina – Houston Education Research Consortium, 2020
This report examines the role of English learner (ELs) status in four-year college enrollment and bachelor's degree completion among Houston Independent School District (HISD) high school graduates. We divide students into four groups: students who are never classified as EL (hereafter referred to as "Never EL" students), ELs who are…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, English Language Learners, English (Second Language), Course Selection (Students)
Julie Baer; Rajika Bhandari; Natalya Andrejko; Leah Mason – Institute of International Education, 2018
"Open Doors"® is the only long-standing, comprehensive information resource on international students and scholars in the United States and on American students studying abroad for academic credit. "Open Doors" features graphic displays, data tables, and policy-oriented analyses, and is the essential resource for those…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Study Abroad, International Educational Exchange, College Students
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