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Huang, Denise; Dietel, Ronald – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2011
The number of students attending afterschool programs has skyrocketed in recent years, currently serving an estimated 8.4 million children (Afterschool Alliance, 2009). Consequently, the demand for high quality afterschool programs, and to learn from successful ones, has never been greater. This "Making Afterschool Programs Better"…
Descriptors: Enrichment Activities, After School Programs, Politics of Education, Educational Policy
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Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2010
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation created the Early College High School Initiative in 2002, opening more than 200 hundred early college programs across the nation and every year a new report is created to evaluate the progress of the program (Berger, Adelman, & Cole, 2010). Staff at the Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast (REL-SE)…
Descriptors: College Credits, Evidence, College Programs, Dual Enrollment
Chappell, Shanan L. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The 2001 renewal of the United States' Title I program, which provides federal funds to schools with large populations of low-income students, instituted the Supplemental Educational Services (SES) program in which schools in their third year of failing to make Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) are required to offer after-school tutoring in core…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, School Effectiveness, Low Achievement, Tutoring
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Bureau of Indian Affairs (Dept. of Interior), Aberdeen, SD. Aberdeen Area Office. – 1976
The final evaluation report on the 37 Elementary Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Title I projects in the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Aberdeen Area, this report presents graphic and tabular descriptions for each of the 37 projects re: (1) Title I expenditures (graphic display of expenditures for reading, math, language, administration, area…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administration, American Indians, Facilities
Emrick, John A.; Peterson, Susan M. – 1978
Reviewing five large-scale investigations of educational dissemination and change, this report synthesizes and consolidates their findings and implications around an issue of common interest to policymakers, program administrators, and researchers: what can be learned from these studies about processes and procedures that facilitate knowledge…
Descriptors: Diffusion, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Educational Research
US Senate, 2002
Senator Edward Kennedy, from the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, submitted this report in accompaniment to United States Senate Bill 2969 (S. 2969), which was introduced by Senator Kennedy and Senator Gregg on September 19, 2002. S. 2969 provides for an office within the Department of Education to conduct high quality research…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Federal Legislation, Validity, Evaluation
Magisos, Joel H.; Moore, Allen B. – 1977
This paper provides a composite picture of some recent studies of research, demonstration, and curriculum development programs. The primary focus is on three studies: "Assessing Vocational Education Research and Development" (National Academy of Sciences, 1976, COVERD Report, ED 128 754); Anthony H. Pascal, et al., "Federal Programs…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Demonstration Programs, Educational Development, Educational Research
Hoachlander, Gary; And Others – 1996
In the fall of 1995 the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) held a conference to stimulate dialogue about future developments in the fields of education, statistical methodology, and technology and the implications of these developments for the nation's education statistics program. This paper summarizes and synthesizes the results of…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Educational Administration, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Park, Rosemarie J.; Ernst, Stacy; Kim, Eunyoung – National Research Center for Career and Technical Education, 2007
This review of research is part of a larger project which identified exemplary community college programs that employ innovative curriculum and instructional practices in order to help low-skilled adults attain a family sustainable wage. The project goal was to identify best practices that are replicable at other community colleges. These programs…
Descriptors: Credentials, Wages, Community Colleges, Adult Basic Education