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Miller, Ben; Fishman, Rachel; McCarthy, Mary Alice – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
New America is a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy institute that invests in new thinkers and ideas to address the next generation of challenges facing the United States. Because community college students tend to be underserved by our current higher education structure, much of our research and subsequent policy analysis and recommendations…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Higher Education, Associate Degrees, Educational Research
Meyer, Stephen J.; Brodersen, R. Marc; Linick, Matthew A. – Regional Educational Laboratory Central, 2014
The purpose of this study was to describe how states in the REL Central Region (Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming) evaluate teacher preparation programs and planned changes for evaluation. Publicly available documents were reviewed and interviews were conducted with state education agency representatives…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, State Departments of Education, Program Evaluation
Bhatt, Rachana – Journal of School Choice, 2014
From 1982-1997, 35 states adopted legislation, referred to as homeschool rights, that explicitly granted families the right to educate their children at home. Using data from the National Household Education Survey, this article examines the impact that this legislation has had on the decision to homeschool a child versus the alternatives of…
Descriptors: School Choice, Home Schooling, Educational Legislation, Parent Rights
US Government Accountability Office, 2016
Homeless youth and youth in foster care are often unprepared for the transition to adulthood. Given the economic benefits of college, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) was asked to examine the college experiences of these vulnerable youth. GAO examined: (1) college enrollment and completion for foster and homeless youth; (2) the extent to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Access to Education, Federal Aid, Federal Programs
Council of the Great City Schools, 2015
This report measures trends in performance among urban schools receiving federal School Improvement Grant (SIG) awards as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). The Council of the Great City Schools aims to document how member districts of the Council of the Great City Schools implemented SIG and specifically what…
Descriptors: Grants, Federal Legislation, Federal Aid, Educational Improvement
Tobias, Robert; Inauen, Jennifer – Evaluation Review, 2010
Gathering time-series data of behaviors and psychological variables is important to understand, guide, and evaluate behavior-change campaigns and other change processes. However, repeated measurement can affect the phenomena investigated, particularly frequent face-to-face interviews, which are often the only option in developing countries. This…
Descriptors: Intervention, Diaries, Foreign Countries, Enrollment Trends
McClure, Joseph Paul; And Others – 1972
This study concerned problem of decreased 4-H Club enrollment among senior 4-H Club youth in Tennessee. Data were collected from all ninth and tenth grade boys in Greene County, Tennessee, present on day interviews were conducted in each school. For analysis, data from 308 boys were classified into two groups according to their 4-H Club membership…
Descriptors: Clubs, Comparative Analysis, Data Collection, Dropout Research
Minor, James T. – American Educational Research Journal, 2008
Using Mississippi and North Carolina as cases, the author examines progress made toward the desegregation of enrollments in public colleges and universities. Enrollment trends are analyzed in the context of contemporary social, legal, and educational policy initiatives intended to desegregate dual systems of public higher education. Despite more…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Public Colleges, Desegregation Litigation, Enrollment Trends
Fine, Kerry Kinney; Lehnertz, Mary Jane – 1991
In 1988, a study was conducted by the Research Department of the Minnesota House of Representatives to examine college student retention and enrollment patterns in the state. Community college retention was examined by tracking the progress of fall 1987 entering freshmen through 1990. Interviews, focusing on students' plans, background,…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis
Breneman, David W. – 1977
The results of a seven-year program designed to reform graduate education in the humanities and social sciences sponsored by the Ford Foundation and 10 leading university graduate schools are reported. Evaluation focused on the Ford Foundation Graduate Program, original proposals submitted by the 10 universities, annual reports and data submitted…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Doctoral Degrees, Doctoral Programs, Educational Change
Connor, H.; And Others – 1996
This report presents an analysis of data on student trends in higher education (HE) in the United Kingdom for the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals (CVCP) of UK universities. It is based on research including a review of the literature, interviews in a sample of 14 universities to investigate individual institutional trends,…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Change Agents, Change Strategies, College Graduates
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 2002
In response to the need of military leaders to be better prepared to plan, support, and conduct joint (multi-service and multi-national) operations, Congress enacted the Goldwater- Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986. Positive steps were taken to implement provisions in the Act that address the education, assignment, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Adult Students, Agency Cooperation