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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
Lisa Baines; Debbie Gooch; Terry Ng-Knight – Educational Review, 2024
University participation gaps between free school meals (FSM) and non-FSM students have remained largely stable in the UK since 2006. The efficacy of UK widening participation (WP) interventions in changing attitudes towards university and increasing participation of disadvantaged students is uncertain. Some approaches have shown to be effective…
Descriptors: Lunch Programs, Intervention, Student Attitudes, Student Participation
Houston Independent School District, 2019
Title I, Part A, Title II, Part A, and Title IV, Part A funds are provided to the Houston Independent School District (HISD) through the 2015 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), also known as the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). All three funds focus on enhancing student achievement: Title I, Part A…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Disadvantaged Youth
Trina Mitchener – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this quantitative comparative study was to determine the differences in literacy and mathematics pass rates between AY 2021-2022 and AY 2022-2023, whether a 21st CCLC Program contributed to score differences and whether there is an interaction between them in a southeastern state. A two-way mixed ANOVA was used to answer the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, After School Programs, Summer Programs, Literacy
Ezeamuzie, Ndudi O. – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
Several instructional approaches have been advanced for learning programming. However, effective ways of engaging beginners in programming in K-12 are still unclear, especially among low socioeconomic status learners in technology-deprived learning environments. Understanding the learning path of novice programmers will bridge this gap and explain…
Descriptors: Programming, Constructivism (Learning), Programming Languages, Computer Science Education
Bianchi, Lynne – Primary Science, 2020
In this article, the author describes the impact of the Great Science Share for Schools (GSSfS). This annual campaign has already engaged over 100,000 pupils since its start in 2016. With 2019 seeing a record-breaking 63,614 pupils registered across 483 events in 11 countries, the forecast for 2020 is looking positive. Set up by the Science &…
Descriptors: Science Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries
Jonathan L. Loveall – ProQuest LLC, 2022
In the 1995 legislation establishing charter schools in the state of Louisiana, the Louisiana Legislature indicated their intention "that the best interests of at-risk pupils be the overriding consideration in implementing the provisions of this Chapter" (Charter School Demonstration Programs, 1997). Furthermore, the legislation required…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Charter Schools, State Legislation, Progress Monitoring
Cshenal Jackson – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Closing the achievement gap is critical to the future of the nation, but more importantly it provides economically disadvantaged students a learning experience equivalent to their peers. Many districts attempt to battle low performance in Title I schools through special programs or addressing issues such as class size instead of taking into…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Elementary Schools, Advanced Placement Programs, Elementary Education
Megan Hopkins; Pete Goldschmidt; Julie Sugarman; Delia Pompa; Lorena Mancilla – Migration Policy Institute, 2024
Federal law requires states to develop systems to hold K-12 schools accountable for the outcomes of all students. This includes using data to illuminate how historically marginalized groups of students, including English Learners (ELs), are disadvantaged by systems that fail to meet their distinct needs. But for this to be useful for school…
Descriptors: Accountability, English Language Learners, Outcomes of Education, Second Language Learning
Anderson, Kaitlin P. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2020
Background: Exclusionary discipline (e.g. suspension and expulsion) is associated with lower student achievement, drop-out, and involvement in the juvenile justice system. Recently, states and school districts have begun to restrict exclusionary discipline, but there remains much to be learned about the potential impact on students. Research…
Descriptors: Suspension, Expulsion, Discipline, State Policy
Houston Independent School District, 2023
As an independent school district, Houston Independent School District (HISD) contracted with four operators of seven External Performance Contract Campuses, or contract campuses. Houston ISD contract campuses receive funding through the district. HISD has implemented a comprehensive performance accountability and compliance monitoring system that…
Descriptors: School Districts, Achievement Tests, Reading Achievement, Mathematics Achievement
Michael S. Garet; Kerstin Carlson Le Floch; Daniel Hubbard; Joanne Carminucci; Barbara Goodson – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2024
Boosting literacy among school-age children remains a national priority. Nearly one third of students in the United States have not developed the foundational reading skills needed to succeed academically, with students living in poverty, students with disabilities, and English learners especially at risk. Starting in 2010, Congress invested more…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Literacy Education, Evidence Based Practice, Grants
Tuan, Kim Manh; Hoan, Tran Huu; Hoang Yen, Duong Thi; Huyen, Nguyen Phuong – Learning: Research and Practice, 2022
To support the implementation of Vietnam's new general education curriculum, Vietnam Ministry of Education and Training is organising a professional development programme integrating blended learning models for principals of general education institutions. In the period of educational reforms, there is a need for high-quality professional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Professional Development
Anderson, Lorin W. – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2021
Distance education has been practised for generations, although its purpose and form have changed. Correspondence courses, in which students receive instruction via mail and respond with assignments or questions to the instructor, date back to the mid-1800s, if not earlier. As technology changed, so did the nature of distance education. Radio,…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Improvement
National Institute for Excellence in Teaching, 2020
A coalition of districts and schools serving high-need students in Louisiana are partnering with the nonprofit National Institute for Excellence in Teaching (NIET) to increase equitable access to effective educators for students in high-poverty schools. Through a five-year 2016 federal Teacher Incentive Fund grant, called the LA BOLD (Building On…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Equal Education, Disadvantaged Schools, Grants