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Angela Renae Codron – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study examined a differentiated, bottom-up approach to school improvement planning through exploration of the qualities that make up a highly effective school department team as it related to their ability to create and meet a student-centered, data driven high achievement goal. While there are a multitude of factors that affect the ability…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Educational Improvement, Cooperative Planning, Program Effectiveness
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Lindsey Devers Basileo; Merewyn Elizabeth Lyons; Michael David Toth – SAGE Open, 2024
Instructional leaders require timely and predictive data to guide post-pandemic systemic changes. We investigated the predictability of an observational instrument, the Rigor Appraisal, and its association with achievement and other school effectiveness measures in a sample of 53 schools in Illinois. We found that increases in the Rigor Appraisal…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Prediction, Validity, Observation
Coretta N. Streat – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study was conducted to investigate the impact of school resources on student outcomes in urban K-12 Catholic schools participating in the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program (DC OSP). DC OSP, a K-12 federally-funded voucher program enables economically disadvantaged families to enroll their children in private schools, including Catholic…
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Graduation Rate, Urban Schools, Elementary Secondary Education
Elizabeth Setren – Blueprint Labs, 2024
School assignment policies are a key lever to increase access to high performing schools and to promote racial and socioeconomic integration. For over 50 years, the Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity (METCO) has bussed students of color from Boston, Massachusetts to relatively wealthier and predominantly White suburbs. Using a…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, School Desegregation, Minority Group Students, Student Transportation
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George Wilson Ssenkande; Patrick Mugyenyi; Dinah Achola – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2024
Pedagogical reforms, specifically, the Thematic Curriculum and the Local Language Policy, have failed to improve literacy in Uganda despite a concerted effort from the Government of Uganda and its international development partners. This paper distills the major literacy programs used to scale up the reforms nationwide and summarizes what they did…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Curriculum Development, Educational Policy
Eliot Levine – Aurora Institute, 2024
The Mastery-Based Learning Collaborative (MBLC) is a demonstration project taking place in 47 schools across Washington to help decision makers understand what quality mastery-based (or competency-based) learning looks like, how long it takes to implement, and what resources are necessary. The schools receive funding, coaching, and professional…
Descriptors: Mastery Learning, Program Descriptions, Decision Making, Educational Quality