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Gorard, Stephen; Siddiqui, Nadia; See, Beng Huat – Research Papers in Education, 2022
Pupil Premium funding has been provided to schools in England since 2011, to reduce socio-economic segregation, and the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers. There is little evidence it works. Some stakeholders are now considering whether funding should cease, or have a new objective. Evaluating the impact of such a funding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Finance, Educational Attainment, Disadvantaged
Douglas Walton; Laura R. Peck – Administration for Children & Families, 2024
Both the Pathways for Advancing Careers and Education (PACE) and Health Profession Opportunity Grants (HPOG 1.0) Programs sought to apply a career pathways framework in evaluating varied training programs for nontraditional student populations. This framework identifies a set of principles thought to exemplify best practices in employment and…
Descriptors: Career Pathways, Nontraditional Students, Best Practices, Training
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Lisciandro, Joanne G. – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2022
Pre-tertiary enabling programs have become an increasingly popular pathway to university in Australia in recent years, however little is published about how well enabling students fare once they start university. This paper examines and compares first-year retention and academic outcomes of students that entered Murdoch University between 2014 and…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Freshmen, Transitional Programs, Academic Achievement
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Prince, Latrina Y.; Williams, Tremaine B.; Allen, Antino R.; McGehee, Robert E., Jr.; Thomas, Billy R. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2023
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) aims to increase diversity in research and health-related careers. The SURP provides underrepresented minority (URM) and disadvantaged students with research, mentoring, and networking experiences; real-life surgical observations; and simulated…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Research, Summer Programs, Diversity
Christal M. Clark – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Legislators and correctional administrators are tasked with problem-solving current issues of mass incarceration and high criminal recidivism rates. Part of the solution is to implement successful rehabilitative initiatives through reentry programming. While Postsecondary Correctional Education programs are proven to reduce recidivism and assist…
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Education, Student Attitudes
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Renbarger, Rachel; Beaujean, Alexander – Education Sciences, 2020
The Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program provides higher education institutions with federal funds to increase the doctoral attainment for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. We conducted a meta-analysis of the impact of the McNair program on graduate program enrollment. After an exhaustive literature search, we found 7…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Graduate Study, Scholarship, Doctoral Programs
McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership at National Louis University, 2020
Early educational interventions, such as Head Start, have been widely recognized as an effective way to mitigate the negative effects of poverty on early learning and development (Camilli, Vargas, Ryan, & Barnett, 2010). In the past decade, there has been a strong expansion of early childhood programming, including Head Start and state-funded…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Intervention, School Readiness
Stephanie A. Brown – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this program evaluation was to evaluate the impact of CORE District's Breakthrough Success Community (BTSC) Program at an urban Title I high school located in Southern California. BTSC aims to improve the ninth-grade experience through a focus on five key change drivers and the implementation of improvement science. Through teacher…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Urban Schools, Disadvantaged Schools, High Schools
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National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2022
Helping English learners and economically disadvantaged students read as well as their more advantaged peers is a struggle for many schools. This study tested WordGen Elementary, a program to improve fourth- and fifth-grade students' ability to understand the academic language used in school and support their reading achievement. This Study…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Reading Programs, Reading Instruction, Economically Disadvantaged
Inika Pierre Williams – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Only 11% of students who are Pell-eligible and the first in their family to attend college graduate with a bachelor's degree. Upward Bound is a federal-funded project that seeks to: (1) improve the motivation and skills of disadvantaged students; and (2) increase students' likelihood of success at two- and four-year institutions. The study sought…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Student Motivation, Disadvantaged, Skill Development
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
Nguyen, Anh; Gavel, Sidney; Delgado-Medrano, Manu – Progressive Policy Institute, 2023
The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world, and as many as a third of Americans have some type of criminal record. Upon reentry, individuals with a justice history, whom referred as returning citizens, face significant barriers to economic security and reintegration into their communities. Among the most formidable barriers…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Barriers, Entrepreneurship
Furlong, John, Ed.; Lunt, Ingrid, Ed. – Higher Education Policy Institute, 2020
HEPI's last foray into the debate on academic selection suggested grammar schools are successful in helping their poorer pupils reach highly-selective universities. In this response, a diverse set of voices use the latest evidence to challenge the idea that grammar school systems serve pupils better than comprehensive schools. This collection of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Secondary Schools, Selective Admission
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Anderson-Butcher, Dawn; Paluta, Lauren; Sterling, Karen; Anderson, Carol – Children & Schools, 2018
Using mixed methods, this case study explored outcomes associated with the adoption and implementation of a community schools approach in four Title I schools using the Community Collaboration Model for School Improvement. Trends in school data demonstrate academic achievement improvements in three of the four schools. Absenteeism and the number…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Disadvantaged Schools, Educationally Disadvantaged, Educational Improvement
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Robles-Goodwin, Patsy J.; Salazar, Jessica C.; Garza, Tiberio; Torres, Bertha Y.; Martinez, Carlos – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2023
The purpose of this study was to assess the increase of Latino parents' confidence in advocating and supporting their child's schooling. The intervention was implemented in six public independent school districts in the Southwest United States. The data was examined through matched pre- and post-surveys (n = 45). Findings are consistent in…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Parents, Parent Participation, Family Involvement
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