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Lu Xu; David S. Knight – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2025
A growing volume of research shows college promise programs increase the likelihood that students enroll in and complete college. Place-based promise programs provide a guaranteed college scholarship for students who attend a specified school district. We examine the societal benefits and costs of a place-based scholarship program in rural…
Descriptors: College Readiness, College Attendance, Place Based Education, Educational Benefits
Clement Adamba; Dante Castillo-Canales; Chhorn Lin; Emily Gustafsson-Wright; Mustapha Mensah; Rosa Maria Moncada; Erick Nehring; Elyse Painter; Sorachana Seng; Wendy Smith; Leslie Tettey – Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, 2023
To address the learning crisis and other challenges facing children and youth (those 15-24 years of age) it is critical for governments, multilateral and bilateral funders, other donors, and implementers to have a clear understanding of program costs and cost breakdowns to inform financing decisions. For nearly a decade, the Center for Universal…
Descriptors: Costs, Intervention, Early Childhood Education, Child Development
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Shannon, Patrick – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2019
Online programs are often viewed as a cost-efficient strategy for increasing revenue for shrinking university budgets but this may not be an accurate assessment. Responsibility Centered Management (RCM) is a budgeting model that is purported to increase efficient delivery of academic programs. As RCM budgeting models have been embraced, many…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Social Work, Cost Effectiveness, Budgeting
Burnside, Omari; Wesley, Alexa; Wesaw, Alexis; Parnell, Amelia – NASPA - Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, 2019
Traditionally seen as a way for institutions to help students alleviate some of the financial demands placed on them, on-campus student employment has several additional benefits institutions can leverage to assist students along their collegiate journey. If designed and operationalized effectively, institutions can use their on-campus student…
Descriptors: Student Employment, College Students, Paying for College, Federal Programs
Online Submission, 2020
Each year, Austin Independent School District Department of Research and Evaluation (DRE) staff develop a plan of work to describe the scope of work for the coming year. The plans that make up this document identify programs to be evaluated and services to be provided by DRE staff and provide the blueprints for evaluation that staff will follow…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Program Descriptions, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
Houston Independent School District, 2014
This report provides a summary of the Home Instruction of Parents with Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) program activities and its effectiveness for HISD student participants. A total of 577 students and their parents participated in the Houston Independent School District (HISD) HIPPY program during the 2013-2014 academic year, which was more than…
Descriptors: Home Instruction, Parent Participation, Preschool Children, Program Descriptions
Online Submission, 2018
Each year, Austin Independent School District Department of Research and Evaluation (DRE) staff develop a plan of work to describe the scope of work for the coming year. The plans that make up this document identify programs to be evaluated and services to be provided by DRE staff and provide the blueprints for evaluation that staff will follow…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Program Descriptions, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
Online Submission, 2017
Each year, Austin Independent School District Department of Research and Evaluation (DRE) staff develop a plan of work to describe the scope of work for the coming year. The plans that make up this document identify programs to be evaluated and services to be provided by DRE staff and provide the blueprints for evaluation that staff will follow…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Program Descriptions, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
Online Submission, 2016
Each year, Austin Independent School District Department of Research and Evaluation (DRE) staff develop a plan of work to describe the scope of work for the coming year. The plans that make up this document identify programs to be evaluated and services to be provided by DRE staff and provide the blueprints for evaluation that staff will follow…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Program Descriptions, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
Blazer, Christie – Research Services, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2010
Response to Intervention (RtI) is a process that addresses both the identification of learning disabilities and the design of early intervention and instruction. RtI provides a framework upon which to structure high quality instruction for all students and a means by which to identify those in need of more intensive intervention. The process is…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Early Intervention, Disability Identification, Program Descriptions
Usher, Alexandra; Kober, Nancy – Center on Education Policy, 2011
This report examines a decade's worth of research on school vouchers and concludes that vouchers have had no clear positive effect on student academic achievement, and mixed outcomes for students overall. Effects on graduation rates, parental satisfaction, public school achievement and cost to taxpayers are discussed. The report also notes that…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Academic Achievement, Educational Vouchers, Cost Effectiveness
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Boyle, Frank; Kwon, Jinhee; Ross, Catherine; Simpson, Ormond – Open Learning, 2010
This article argues that in the drive to develop e-learning initiatives in distance learning, simpler ways of supporting students for retention may be overlooked; for example, the linking of students in the form of mentoring and peer support networks. The article reports on three mentoring projects, in the United Kingdom, Korea and New Zealand,…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Social Support Groups, Mentors, Outcomes of Education
Reaves, Juanita; Burns, James – 1982
The report provides an analysis of the impact of the Handicapped Children's Early Education Program (HCEEP) during the past decade. Following an executive summary, Chapter 1 provides an historical overview of the HCEEP and information on previous evaluations of the program. The second chapter describes the study's work scope and methodological…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Disabilities, Early Childhood Education, Outcomes of Education
Ascher, Carol; And Others – 1996
One of the ideas frequently offered for the improvement of American education, privatization, has the advantage of conforming to the popular beliefs that markets produce better results than do government entities. This popular support has been a major reason for the willingness of local officials to consider changes that dismantle or supersede…
Descriptors: Accountability, Contracts, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Change
Johnson, David R.; And Others – 1991
Twenty-three transition programs for high school students with disabilities in Minnesota are profiled. These programs were selected because they applied a set of 10 quality standards developed to improve the transition process and adult outcomes for students, as well as to increase the cost effectiveness and efficiency of transition services and…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship, Employment
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