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H. Alix Gallagher; Benjamin W. Cottingham; Leah Faw – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2025
The CORE Districts, a nonprofit formed by large urban districts in California, received a Networks for School Improvement grant from the Gates Foundation to launch a network focused on improving ninth-grade on-track rates. CORE based its approach on the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Breakthrough Collaborative model, where a hub identifies…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, High Schools, High School Students, Grade 9
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Kevin Barlow – Educational Research Quarterly, 2024
The state of Texas requires that each district and campus write an annual improvement plan (Texas Education Code, n.d.b). Although this study was conducted in Texas concerning Texas districts and campuses, it would be reasonable to assume that most, if not all, of the other states in the U.S. have similar improvement planning processes. The…
Descriptors: School Districts, Educational Improvement, Educational Planning, Program Effectiveness
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Yamada, Tomoko; Miura, Yui; Oi, Manabu; Akatsuka, Nozomi; Tanaka, Kazumi; Tsukidate, Naotake; Yamamoto, Tomoka; Okuno, Hiroko; Nakanishi, Mariko; Taniike, Masako; Mohri, Ikuko; Laugeson, Elizabeth A. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2020
This study examines the efficacy of the Japanese version of the Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills (PEERS), which focuses on improving social functioning through making friends and maintaining good relationships for adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) without intellectual disabilities. Originally developed in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership at National Louis University, 2020
Licensed family child care (FCC) programs serve millions of children and families annually and tend to serve more vulnerable families than center-based programs. Low-income families, families needing infant and toddler care, and families that are Hispanic or African American are more likely to place their children in FCC programs than in…
Descriptors: Child Care Centers, Child Care, Educational Trends, Caregiver Training
Gallagher, H. Alix; Cottingham, Benjamin W. – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2019
The education sector is embracing the hope that continuous improvement will lead to more beneficial student outcomes than standards-based reform and other approaches to policies and practice in prior decades. This report examines attempts in California to realize the potential of continuous improvement in some of the state's largest districts.…
Descriptors: School Districts, Educational Improvement, Urban Schools, Improvement Programs
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Schirmer, Barbara R.; Lockman, Alison S.; Schirmer, Todd N. – International Journal of Educational Methodology, 2020
This study was designed to investigate the applicability of the IES/NSF pipeline-of-evidence protocol in ascertaining why two notable educational initiatives spearheaded and financially supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation achieved or not the goal of improved academic outcomes for K-12 public school students. Our interest was not…
Descriptors: Philanthropic Foundations, Financial Support, Evidence, Program Effectiveness
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Green, Lindsay A.; Ailey, Sarah H. – Journal of School Nursing, 2021
Children in two communities of a large city in the Midwestern United States have higher rates of asthma than other areas of the city. The communities have barriers to accessing care, including high rates of unemployment and being uninsured and undocumented. A mobile van provides no-cost asthma care to children at schools in these communities, but…
Descriptors: Diseases, School Health Services, Clinics, Urban Schools
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Margaret Honey, Editor; Wendy Gram, Editor; Kenne Dibner, Editor; Committee to Assess NASA Science Activation 2.0, Contributor; Board on Science Education, Contributor; Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Contributor – National Academies Press, 2025
Since its inception, NASA's Science Activation program has demonstrated considerable success in leveraging the agency's strong public reputation and resources to engage a diversity of audiences in science education projects nationwide. As the program nears the end of this second five-year funding cycle, NASA tasked the National Academies with…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Science Education, STEM Education, Program Effectiveness
Andrew, Alison; Attanasio, Orazio; Bernal, Raquel; Sosa, Lina Cardona; Krutikova, Sonya; Rubio-Codina, Marta – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2019
Global access to preschool has increased dramatically yet preschool quality is often poor. We use a randomized controlled trial to evaluate two approaches to improving the quality of Colombian preschools. We find that the first, which was rolled out nationwide and provides additional resources for materials and new staff, did not benefit…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Educational Quality, Child Development, Foreign Countries
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White, Howard; Saran, Ashrita – UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti, 2022
This research brief is one of a series of six briefs, which provide an overview of available evidence shown in the Campbell-UNICEF Mega-Map of the effectiveness of interventions to improve child well-being in low- and middle-income countries. Five of these briefs summarize evidence as mapped against the five goal areas of UNICEF's 2018-2021…
Descriptors: International Organizations, Strategic Planning, Children, Well Being
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Oats, Reginald; Gumbo, Meshack T. – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2019
A fit-for-purpose, functional program is the vehicle that guarantees the relevance of an education system by ensuring the sustainability of the society. Failure of a program to be relevant has the potential to cause crisis in a society. This basic qualitative research study explored the experiences of the beneficiaries of a skills development…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Benefits, Skill Development, Rural Areas
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Diana Samal; Hartono; Estu Widodo; Ria Arista Asih; Julham Hukom; Salifa Belatu – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2024
Implementing the Blended Learning model was identified as having a major influence on achieving learning objectives in the classroom. Blended learning facilitates different times and types of student learning so students can learn according to their needs. The purpose of this study is to define the blended learning effectiveness used at MTs…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Blended Learning, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries
Jackson, Kathleen Ryan; Ward, Caryn; Smolkowski, Keith; Gau, Jeff – State Implementation and Scaling-up of Evidence-based Practices Center, 2021
The purpose of the study was to investigate whether the districts that received ongoing training and coaching to use the Active Implementation Frameworks improved mathematics outcomes. The Active Implementation Frameworks represent five essential approaches for effective implementation of any evidence-based program or practice. One of the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Outcomes of Education, School Districts, Educational Improvement
Supovitz, Jonathan A.; Ebby, Caroline B.; Remillard, Janine; Nathenson, Robert A. – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2018
In this report, we describe the results of a rigorous two-year study of the impacts of a mathematics initiative called Ongoing Assessment Project (OGAP) on teacher and student learning in grades 3-5 in two Philadelphia area school districts. OGAP is a mathematics program which combines teacher formative assessment practices with knowledge of…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Formative Evaluation, Teacher Characteristics, Mathematics Achievement
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Rickinson, Mark; Hall, Matthew; Reid, Alan – Environmental Education Research, 2016
This paper focuses on our experience of researching the influence of ResourceSmart Schools, a sustainable schools programme in Victoria, Australia. Drawing on ideas from programme theory and realist synthesis, we illustrate and reflect upon our approach to conceptualising, investigating and generating evidence about the programme's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainability, School Effectiveness, Improvement Programs
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