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Augustine, Catherine H.; McCombs, Jennifer Sloan; Baker, Garrett – RAND Corporation, 2021
In 2011, The Wallace Foundation launched the National Summer Learning Project (NSLP) to expand summer program opportunities for students in urban districts and to study the effectiveness of district-led summer programs and how they could be well implemented. Through the NSLP, The Wallace Foundation has provided support to public school districts…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Urban Schools, School Districts, Program Effectiveness
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Grossman, Amanda; Twardus, Ian – Administrative Issues Journal: Connecting Education, Practice, and Research, 2023
A persisting shortage of accounting Ph.D. program graduates has plagued academia for at least the last two decades. Despite suggestions fueled by research findings, traditional accounting Ph.D. programs appear to have not implemented substantial changes aimed at alleviating this problem. The present study surveys accounting Ph.D. program…
Descriptors: Accounting, Doctoral Programs, Labor Needs, Educational Change
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Hermansen, Hege – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2020
This article examines program development in teacher education, with an emphasis on how teacher educators pursue coherence. The analysis contributes to existing literature by investigating how coherence is pursued as part of program development and by analytically situating coherence as an emergent achievement that requires the alignment of…
Descriptors: Alignment (Education), Program Development, Teacher Education Programs, Politics of Education
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Jonathan Langner; Krista Langston; Ally Mrachek; Bonnie Faitak; Pamela Martin; Alexa Cueto; Jennifer L. Clampitt; Christopher R. Long; Amy Bartow; Susan Bodey; Pearl A. McElfish – Journal of School Health, 2024
Background: Nutrition plays a vital role in children's physical and emotional health. More than half of school age children's calories are provided in the school food environment, making school interventions an opportunity to address child nutrition. Methods: The Creating Health Environments for Schools (CHEFS) program is designed to leverage…
Descriptors: Nutrition Instruction, Health Promotion, Public Schools, Dining Facilities
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Tosh, Katie; Schwartz, Heather L.; Augustine, Catherine H. – RAND Corporation, 2022
The Wallace Foundation's Partnerships for Social and Emotional Learning Initiative (PSELI) is a six-year initiative that The Wallace Foundation launched in 2017 to explore whether and how children benefit when schools and their out-of-school-time programs partner to improve social and emotional learning (SEL), as well as what it takes to do this…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Case Studies, Partnerships in Education, Program Implementation
Goodwin, Gretta L. – US Government Accountability Office, 2020
The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is responsible for managing the care and custody of approximately 175,000 federal inmates--an estimated 20 percent of whom have been diagnosed with a substance use disorder. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) was asked to review BOP's efforts to provide drug treatment to federal inmates. This report (1)…
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons, Clinical Diagnosis, Substance Abuse
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Helenius, Reija; D'Amelio, Adriana; Campos, Pedro; MacFeely, Steve – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2020
The International Statistical Literacy Project (ISLP) was established in 1994 by the International Statistical Institute and operates under the auspices of the International Association for Statistical Education. Today, the ISLP has 134 country coordinators spread across all continents of the world. The aim of this article is to describe and…
Descriptors: Statistics, Literacy, Program Descriptions, Strategic Planning
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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
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Bottomley, Kevin; Schumacher, Jane; Burleigh, Cheryl; Lindsay, Pamela – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2020
The literature indicates that approximately 50% of those who seek a doctoral education complete the degree. Research indicates that persistence is one of the key issues that students struggle with and negatively impacts their ability to graduate. Other factors include the ability to maintain enrollment; topic selection; and ability to maintain a…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Academic Persistence, Doctoral Students, Doctoral Programs
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Dickinson, Amber R. – Journal of Political Science Education, 2018
When approached about working with colleagues to develop a new course revolving around the inner-workings of a political campaign, one thing was obvious to me: We had to give the course the unique element of making it as closely mimic real-world campaign activities as possible. If we were going to attempt to actually prepare students for work on a…
Descriptors: Political Campaigns, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Implementation, Program Development
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Martin, Andrew; Mott, Melanie; Watson, Geoff – Journal of Experiential Education, 2020
Background: Outward Bound New Zealand (OBNZ) was established in 1962, as part of an international network of outdoor education schools founded in the United Kingdom by Kurt Hahn, with the central values of empowering people to fulfill their potential, fostering compassion, and developing courage. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to provide…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Values, Organizational Change, Foreign Countries
Emrey-Arras, Melissa – US Government Accountability Office, 2020
American Indian and Alaska Native students enrolled in public schools have performed consistently below other students on national assessments from 2005-2019. The Johnson-O'Malley (JOM) program provides academic and cultural supports, through contracts, to meet the specialized and unique educational needs of American Indian and Alaska Native…
Descriptors: American Indian Students, American Indian Education, Public Schools, Alaska Natives
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Warner, Laura A.; Vavrina, Charlie S.; Campbell, Mary L.; Elliott, Monica L.; Northrop, Robert J.; Place, Nick T. – Journal of Extension, 2017
Florida's Strategic Plan for Extension in Metropolitan Regions reflects an adaptive management approach to the state's urban Extension mission within the context of establishing essential elements, performance indicators, key outcomes, and suggested alternatives for action. Extension leadership has adopted the strategic plan, and implementation…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Program Implementation, Program Administration, Extension Education
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Cortés, Valeria; Loffler, Kelly; Brigham, Tim – Papers on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching, 2023
The Professional Project Administrator Program (PPA) is an employment-focused online program offered in partnership with Indigenous communities in Western Canada. Based on the findings from the research conducted after the program completion, we discuss two key components that contributed to a meaningful learning experience and to the success of…
Descriptors: Program Administration, Program Descriptions, Partnerships in Education, Distance Education
Malone, Susan – UNESCO Bangkok, 2019
The number of Mother Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (MTB MLE) programmes has increased in recent years, especially in the Asia-Pacific Region. The case study booklet in this MTB MLE Resource Kit describes programmes in Afghanistan, Nepal and Pakistan that are examples of what language communities can do to help their children prepare to enter…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Native Language, Language of Instruction, Second Language Learning
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