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Direct linkSarah Bilotti – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The evolving educational landscape of our students' needs post-Covid has highlighted that student response to intervention must be of concern to all educators. Our student population has experienced an event that is like no other in our shared educational histories and our response to the aftermath of this event and how we assist students who are…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Educational Policy, Multi Tiered Systems of Support, At Risk Students
Peer reviewedCourtney, Jon R.; Garcia, Janelle Taylor; Rowberry, Jacob; Eckberg, Nathan; Dinces, Sarah M.; Lobaugh, Clayton S.; Tolman, Ryan T. – International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy, 2023
The long-term impact of prekindergarten programs is an important consideration given the trend of dedicating more resources to these programs. However, long-term impact of prekindergarten programs is not well-understood and recent studies have shown preschool effectiveness can vary across states and programs. A state run prekindergarten program in…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Outcomes of Education, Program Effectiveness, Correlation
Download full textDemers, Alicia; Nichols-Barrer, Ira; Steele, Elisa; Bartlett, Maria; Gleason, Philip – Mathematica, 2023
The Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) is the nation's largest network of public charter schools. KIPP began as a network of charter middle schools designed to serve underserved communities, with the goal of closing achievement gaps and preparing students to succeed in college. KIPP has since expanded its model to include elementary and high…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Networks, High Schools, Charter Schools
Tara Michelle Kissel – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation explored the cost and value of 1:1 computing programs in high schools in Texas. The study examines whether the total cost of ownership of these programs can be justified by the student testing gains and graduation rates. It investigates whether student learning outcomes show a definable correlation between positive gains and the…
Descriptors: High Schools, Program Costs, Program Effectiveness, Graduation Rate
Cyrette Saunier; Susan Scrivener; Austin Slaughter; Noor Amanullah; Sukanya Barman; Cynthia Miller; Colleen Sommo; Erick Alonzo, Contributor; Osvaldo Avila, Contributor; Katie Beal, Contributor; Parker Cellura, Contributor; Ben Cohen, Contributor; Stanley Dai, Contributor; Hannah Dalporto, Contributor; Claudia Escobar, Contributor; Colin Hill, Contributor; Marco Lepe, Contributor; Tiffany Morton, Contributor; Rebekah O’Donoghue, Contributor; Vivianna Plancarte, Contributor; Alyssa Ratledge, Contributor; Elena Serna-Wallender, Contributor; Andrea Vasquez, Contributor; Rae Walker, Contributor; Michelle Ware, Contributor; Kayla Warner, Contributor; Melissa Wavelet, Contributor; Michael Weiss, Contributor; Diane Wren, Contributor – MDRC, 2025
Community colleges and broad-access universities (those with minimally selective admissions policies) provide an opportunity for students across the United States to attain postsecondary degrees and achieve economic mobility. However, graduation rates from such colleges are often low and there are many obstacles that can be difficult to…
Descriptors: Intervention, Academic Persistence, Program Development, Costs
Excelencia in Education, 2020
The United States has a growing and young Latino population. While 18 percent of the overall population is Latino, 25 percent of students in K-12 education are Latino. Additionally, the Latino population is projected to increase by 25 percent by 2030. Furthermore, the median age for Latinos is 30, compared to 44 for White non-Hispanics. As more…
Descriptors: College Students, Hispanic American Students, Academic Achievement, Demography
Bonnie E. Brett; Jamie Burciaga; Dana Scott – Colorado Department of Education, 2025
The Foster Care Success Act (House Bill 22-1374) provides funds to both the Colorado Department of Human Services (CDHS) and the Colorado Department of Education (CDE) to improve the educational attainment of students in out-of-home placement. The Act requires CDE to identify specific goals for its Foster Care Education Program (FCEP) to achieve…
Descriptors: Foster Care, State Legislation, State Aid, Educational Attainment
De Hoyos, Rafael; Attanasio, Orazio; Meghir, Costas – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2019
This paper uses an RCT to estimate the impact of PROBEMS, a scholarship program in Mexico aimed at improving graduation rates and test scores among upper secondary school students from poor backgrounds. We find that, on average, the program has no impact either on graduation rates or on Math and Spanish test scores. We identify two possible…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scholarships, High School Students, Graduation Rate
Elizabeth Setren – National Bureau of Economic Research, 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: Busing, Racial Integration, School Desegregation, Desegregation Effects
Lam D. Pham; Sean P. Corcoran; Gary T. Henry; Ron Zimmer – American Educational Research Journal, 2025
Whole-school reforms have received widespread attention, but a critical limitation of the current literature is the lack of evidence around whether these extensive and costly interventions improve students' long-term outcomes after they leave reform schools. Leveraging Tennessee's statewide turnaround reforms, we use difference-in-differences…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Middle Schools, School Turnaround, Academic Achievement
Thirty Years of Charter Schools: What Does Lottery-Based Research Tell Us? Discussion Paper #2023.18
Sarah Cohodes; Susha Roy – Blueprint Labs, 2023
Charter schools are highly debated in policy and political discussions about delivering public education. As "laboratories of innovation" that often use lotteries to assign spots, they hold the potential to generate rigorous evidence about effective educational practices. This paper synthesizes and summarizes findings from charter…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Selective Admission, Competitive Selection, Elementary Secondary Education
Orr, Aline – Online Submission, 2020
Early College High School (ECHS) provides students with the opportunity to earn a high school diploma and 60 college hours, which lead to an associate's degree. This report describes demographic characteristics and academic outcomes of the students served by ECHS and highlights emerging topics from the program coordinator survey.
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, High School Students, At Risk Students, Low Income Students
Cestau, Dario; Epple, Dennis; Romano, Richard; Sieg, Holger; Wojtaszek, Carl – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2020
Assessing the effectiveness of education by race and gender is as difficult as it is important. We investigate this question utilizing data for eleven cohorts at West Point, a distinguished military academy and highly ranked liberal arts college. Employing matching using entry scores on three comprehensive measures, we obtain exceptional matches…
Descriptors: Racial Differences, African American Students, White Students, Graduation Rate
Waite, Chelsea; Pangelinan, Cara – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2023
Between 2015 and 2019, Holyoke Public Schools in Massachusetts cut its dropout rate nearly in half and increased its graduation rate by 10 percentage points, with notable gains among historically marginalized student groups. The district cites Opportunity Academy (OA), an alternative education program within the district's high school, as a key…
Descriptors: High School Students, Case Studies, Organizational Change, Dropout Rate
Gustave Kenedi – Centre for Economic Performance, 2024
Little is known about what influences high-achieving, low-income students' persistence in higher education, despite extensive work on their enrolment decision. This paper investigates the role of credit constraints. Using exhaustive administrative data for France, I estimate the impact of automatically granting generous additional aid to enrolled…
Descriptors: High Achievement, Low Income Students, Academic Persistence, College Students
