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Hernandez, Jimmy; Call, Todd; Throndsen, Jennifer; Nielsen, Darin – Utah State Board of Education, 2021
The Waterford Institute recognizes that nearly half of the country's 4-years-olds face socioeconomic barriers that keep them from early education. Utah Preparing Students Today for a Rewarding Tomorrow (UPSTART) is a home-based computer preschool program developed and provided by Waterford to prepare young children for school entry and future…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Emergent Literacy, Preschool Children, Program Effectiveness
Caparas, Ruthie – WestEd, 2021
Across the United States, educators and education leaders are increasingly recognizing the value of social and emotional learning (SEL), school climate, and related whole-person efforts as keys to enabling student success. Many school districts are still exploring or just beginning implementation of these whole-person efforts, and many have…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Social Emotional Learning, Academic Achievement, School Districts
Pankovits, Tressa; Osborne, David – Progressive Policy Institute, 2020
Across the country, urban school districts are moving beyond industrial-era systems by creating "innovation" or "partnership" schools that have the freedom to reinvent the way they educate students. The Progressive Policy Institute released a how-to guide for legislators, district leaders, and advocates who want to create more…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Districts, Educational Innovation, Program Implementation
Meg Grigal; Debra Hart; Clare Papay; Caitlyn Bukaty; Belkis Choiseul-Praslin; Sara Pound – Institute for Community Inclusion, 2024
Think College REPORTS present descriptive data in narrative and tabular form to provide timely information to researchers, practitioners, and policymakers for review and use. This report provides program- and student-level data reported by TPSIDs (Transition and Postsecondary Programs for Students with Intellectual Disabilities) during the…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability, Postsecondary Education, Transitional Programs
McClain, Tim; Reykdal, Kim; Traugott, Jamie – Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, 2022
The Running Start Summer School Pilot program was established in 2020 by House Bill 2864 and enacted as Revised Code of Washington (RCW) 28A.630.600. To determine whether the summer term should be funded under the Running Start Program, a summer pilot was created to evaluate interest in and barriers to expanding the Running Start program to…
Descriptors: Summer Schools, Pilot Projects, State Legislation, Community Colleges
Foundation for Child Development, 2020
As the number of publicly funded early childhood education (ECE) programs increases, policymakers will need empirical evidence to justify the taxpayer investment. Such justification will require a stronger understanding of the essential components of an ECE program's design, as well as solid evidence on which components, or constellations of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Research Utilization, Outcomes of Education, Educational Research
Kelly Robson; Lynne Graziano; Jennifer O'Neal Schiess – National Comprehensive Center, 2020
In the United States, students are assigned to public schools based on where they live. School districts have set boundaries and students living in the neighborhoods within those boundaries attend the district's schools. The district's boundaries are further delineated into attendance zones, in which particular homes and neighborhoods are assigned…
Descriptors: Public Schools, School Districts, Open Enrollment, School Choice
Durfee, Melanie; Call, Todd; Throndsen, Jennifer; Nielsen, Darin – Utah State Board of Education, 2019
The Early Intervention Reading Software Program encourages literacy growth and achievement in students in grades K-3. The program addresses early reading through the use of computer-based literacy software which provides individualized instruction designed to supplement students' classroom learning. During the 2018-2019 school year, these software…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Reading Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software
Grollmann, Philipp; Hugo, Frederik; Thomas, Stefan; Wittig, Wolfgang – European Training Foundation, 2021
Interested in managing existing work-based learning schemes by incorporating monitoring and evaluation methods? Following a brief discussion of the concept of work-based learning, this handbook presents the rationale for monitoring and evaluation as part of good governance. The functioning of work-based learning schemes is represented by a process…
Descriptors: Work Experience Programs, Vocational Education, Program Evaluation, Governance
Alliance for Excellent Education, 2017
Students planning to attend community college or enter the workforce directly from high school need technical instruction and work experience that result in industry designed and recognized credentials along with a high school diploma. This fact sheet examines the Delaware Pathways program, which provides students with career-readiness training…
Descriptors: Career Readiness, Student Certification, Work Experience Programs, Labor Force Development
Goodwin, Gretta L. – US Government Accountability Office, 2019
Incarcerated students are generally prohibited from receiving Pell grants, which provide need-based federal financial aid to low-income undergraduate students. However, Education has the authority to waive specific statutory or regulatory requirements for providing federal student aid at schools approved to participate in its experiments.…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Federal Aid
Judkins, David; Gardiner, Karen; Smith, Adrienne; Walton, Douglas – Abt Associates, 2020
The Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) program provided grants to community colleges and other eligible institutions of higher education to expand and improve their ability to deliver education and career training programs. Grant-funded colleges served workers who were eligible for training under the Trade…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Program Descriptions, Career Development, Grants
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Lillard, Angeline S.; McHugh, Virginia – Journal of Montessori Research, 2019
Maria Montessori developed a form of education in the first half of the last century that came to be called by her surname, and research indicates it often has positive outcomes. In the years since its development, tens of thousands of schools worldwide have called their programs "Montessori," yet implementations vary widely, leading to…
Descriptors: Montessori Method, Outcomes of Education, Program Implementation, Educational Philosophy
Utah State Board of Education, 2017
The Utah state legislature established the Early Intervention Software Program ("EISP") to aid in the development of Utah students' literacy skills through computer-based, adaptive reading software programs designed to meet students' unique learning needs. The Evaluation and Training Institute (ETI) conducts an annual evaluation of how…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Literacy, Computer Assisted Instruction, Program Evaluation
Reedy, Kristen; Lacireno-Paquet, Natalie – WestEd, 2015
Implementation of multi-tier system of supports (MTSS) has grown rapidly in Kansas and is a key strategy for turning around low-performing schools in the state. MTSS is designed to improve outcomes for all students by instituting system-level change across the classroom, school, district, and state. Such systemic change is accomplished by…
Descriptors: Educational Change, School Turnaround, Program Implementation, Fidelity
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