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Leah Voorhies; Max Lang; Robert Palmer; Emily Berry – Utah State Board of Education, 2023
The Partnerships for Student Success grant program is designed to improve educational outcomes for students who are economically disadvantaged by funding grantees to establish and strengthen community partnerships among school districts, businesses, government, and non-profit agencies. The Utah State Board of Education awarded four grants during…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Program Evaluation, Grants, Educational Finance
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A. Brooks Bowden; Robert Shand; Henry M. Levin; Atsuko Muroga; Anyi Wang – Online Submission, 2020
There is growing evidence that out-of-school factors, such as physical and mental health, family support, and social and emotional development, significantly affect student learning (Berliner 2009). To address challenges related to poverty, schools are being charged with serving as a focal point in providing and coordinating support services for…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Economics, Program Evaluation, Academic Support Services
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Jeffery McManus; Mico Rudasingwa; Ewoud Nijhof; Kenna Mokobi; Serigne Fallou Deme; James Kiawoin; Felipe Acero Garay; Leah Mwai; Cassandre Pignon – Education Economics, 2025
Children in Liberia receive 2.2 learning-adjusted years of schooling, one of the lowest levels of educational attainment in the world. We study one approach to address low enrollment and low rates of learning: a 10-month accelerated learning program run by the Luminos Fund to help out-of-school children catch up to grade level. We conducted a…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Out of School Youth, Acceleration (Education), Educational Attainment
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Banks, Sarah; Herrington, Tracey; Carter, Kath – Educational Action Research, 2017
This article introduces the concept of "co-impact" to characterise the complex and dynamic process of social and economic change generated by participatory action research (PAR). It argues that dominant models of research impact tend to see it as a linear process, based on a donor-recipient model, occurring at the end of a project…
Descriptors: Action Research, Community Organizations, Participatory Research, Social Change
Excelencia in Education, 2020
How can institutions and communities accelerate Latino student success? Examples of "Excelencia" is the only national effort to identify and promote evidence-based programs accelerating Latino student success in higher education. Since 2005, "Excelencia" in Education has recognized over 300 programs making a positive difference…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, College Students, Academic Achievement, Acceleration (Education)
Black, Kristin – Research Alliance for New York City Schools, 2016
Funders, policymakers, and program leaders recognize the value of high-quality evidence. To make good use of a program evaluation, initiatives must contend with a set of fundamental questions first. Some of these are about the initiative itself: What outcomes does it seek to affect? Are daily activities in line with long-term goals? Others are…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Partnerships in Education, School Community Relationship, Colleges
Traill, Saskia; Brohawn, Katie – ExpandED Schools, 2015
In the 2013-14 school year, TASC entered the third year of its national demonstration of ExpandED Schools. Ten elementary and middle schools in New York City, Baltimore and New Orleans continued their partnerships with youth-serving community organizations, such as settlement houses or community development corporations. Together, principals,…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, School Community Programs, Community Organizations, Extended School Day
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Stempski, Sarah; Liu, Lenna; Grow, H. Mollie; Pomietto, Maureen; Chung, Celeste; Shumann, Amy; Bennett, Elizabeth – Health Education & Behavior, 2015
Well-known disparities exist in rates of obesity and drowning, two public health priorities. Addressing these disparities by increasing access to safe swimming and water recreation may yield benefits for both obesity and injury prevention. "Everyone Swims," a community partnership, brought community health clinics and water recreation…
Descriptors: Obesity, Aquatic Sports, Partnerships in Education, Health Promotion
Robles, Jessica – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Effective partnerships for education reform "require that schools view parents and communities not simply as customers or clients but as partners in the educational process" (Sanders, 2009, p. 1695). In 2012, seven Seattle area school districts and the Puget Sound Educational Service District (the PSESD) were awarded funding for the Road…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Group Dynamics, Educational Change, Case Studies
Villavincencio, Adriana; Klevan, Sarah; Kang, David – Research Alliance for New York City Schools, 2015
These appendices describe the matching process used to identify an appropriate set of comparison schools for use in the report evaluating Year 2 of the Expanded Success Initiative, "Changing How High Schools Serve Black and Latino Young Men." As described in Chapter 2 of the report, selecting schools similar to ESI schools to serve as a…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Partnerships in Education, School Community Relationship, Colleges
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Gutheil, Irene A.; Heyman, Janna C. – Educational Gerontology, 2010
Attention to preparing social workers for our aging society has increased with concern that there may be insufficient professionals to meet the need. Interest in training gerontologically-savvy social work students had led to the development of models to achieve this end. This article reports on a collaboration among a university's school of…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Social Work, Partnerships in Education, Caseworker Approach
Blank, Martin J.; Jacobson, Reuben; Melaville, Atelia – Center for American Progress, 2012
A community school is a place and a set of partnerships connecting a school, the families of students, and the surrounding community. A community school is distinguished by an integrated focus on academics, youth development, family support, health and social services, and community development. The community school strategy is central to efforts…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Social Services, Unions, Community Development
Brumfield, Elizabeth Jean – Online Submission, 2008
The American Library Association encourages public libraries to extend their services to people in jails and detention centers, but there is little research that shows exactly how many libraries do so. Research shows that 54% of juveniles arrested are not sent to residential facilities but instead receive court ordered probation into an Intensive…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Outreach Programs, Juvenile Justice, Delinquency
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Broadbent, Robyn S.; Papadopoulos, Theo – Journal of Youth Studies, 2010
This paper reports on a comprehensive evaluation of the Advance programme by Victoria University in 2007/08. Advance is a flexible school-based programme for young people to volunteer or implement a project of benefit to their communities in the state of Victoria, in Australia. It is a partnership between the Office for Youth, Victorian government…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries, Community Organizations
Carroll, Becky; Smith, Anita; Castori, Pam – Inverness Research, 2009
The Exploratorium is home to XTech, a science education program which began in 2006 and was primarily funded by a three-year National Science Foundation grant (Award # 05-25217) through its ITEST (Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers) initiative. XTech provided project-based afterschool activities in science, engineering,…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Field Trips, Summative Evaluation, Outreach Programs
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