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Complete College America, 2025
For 15 years, Complete College America (CCA) has been building movements for scaled systemic change and transforming institutions. While CCA has expanded their efforts over the past 15 years, they have studied the best ideas and co-designed the most promising practices to move the needle on college completion. They have learned a lot about how to…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Colleges, Graduation Rate, Program Implementation
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Georgia Heyward – Grantee Submission, 2024
The purpose of this study was to understand a school-based mentoring model that uses school staff as adult mentors. This study presents existing literature on school-based mentoring models along with a case study of one teen parent high school. The report also includes step-by-step guidance for implementation. At the case study school, all school…
Descriptors: Mentors, School Personnel, Staff Role, Adults
Loucks-Horsley, Susan; Cox, Pat L. – 1984
As educators across the nation launch into frenzied efforts to "do something" in response to the various recommendations of commissions on educational excellence, many are forgetting that knowledge of how to implement change is available. This paper focuses on three concerns that educators must face when fitting general recommendations…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Innovation
Heller, Mary F. – 1981
The literature on the evaluation of curriculum development reveals several characteristics of curriculum planning and implementation processes that are likely to facilitate change. Part 1 of this two-part report presents the results of an analysis of 34 documents, available through the ERIC system, on curricular development. Each of several…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Innovation
Gottschalk, Rand; Schmitt, Neal – 1982
Research on educational and criminal justice programs sought to clarify the relationship between organizational characteristics and innovation adoption. It focused on the reasons why organizations adopt innovations and the differences in clientele, staff, and decision-making participation between organizations adopting or unaware of an innovative…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Demonstration Programs, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education
National Inst. for Literacy, Washington, DC. – 1999
This packet consists of materials related to Equipped for the Future (EFF), a national, customer-driven, grassroots, standards-based adult literacy system reform initiative of the National Institute for Literacy. "EFF Background Materials" compares the traditional and EFF views of what adults need to know and explains what EFF standards…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Citizen Role, Communication Skills