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Guesno, Erin – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2012
Elementary school students at a suburban K-12 charter school are facing a difficult transition into the secondary program. In an effort to ease this transition and retain students, the principal requires the secondary teachers to implement a study skills program into the daily curriculum. Initially, the teachers do not voice any objections to the…
Descriptors: Study Skills, Charter Schools, Preservice Teacher Education, Negative Attitudes
Logan, Christopher W.; Cole, Nancy; Kamara, Sheku G. – Journal of Child Nutrition & Management, 2010
Purpose/Objectives: The Direct Verification Pilot tested the feasibility, effectiveness, and costs of using Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) data to verify applications for free and reduced-price (FRP) school meals instead of obtaining documentation from parents and guardians. Methods: The Direct Verification Pilot…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Health Insurance, School Districts, Feasibility Studies
Sullivan, Linda; Bozeman, William – College and University, 2010
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems can represent one of the largest investments of human and financial resources by a higher education institution. They also bring a significant process reengineering aspect to the institution and the associated implementation project through the integration of compiled industry best practices into the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Institutional Environment, Program Implementation, Formative Evaluation
McMurrer, Jennifer; McIntosh, Shelby – Center on Education Policy, 2012
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), also known as the stimulus package, appropriated $100 billion for education and included $3 billion for school improvement grants (SIGs) to help reform low-performing schools. This amount was in addition to the $546 million provided by the regular fiscal year 2009 appropriations bill for…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Programs, Educational Change, State Departments of Education
Sivakumaran, Thillainatarajan; Holland, Glenda; Clark, Leonard; Heyning, Katharina; Wishart, William; Flowers-Gibson, Beverly – Journal of Case Studies in Education, 2011
University teacher education programs establish partnerships with P-12 schools, in part to place their teacher education candidates in a learning environment that allows candidates to work with a diverse population of learners. The purpose of this study was to examine three universities in regard to the partnerships utilized for field and clinical…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, College School Cooperation, Data Collection, Program Design
Pitt Barnes, Seraphine; Robin, Leah; O'Toole, Terrence P.; Dawkins, Nicola; Kettel Khan, Laura; Leviton, Laura C. – Journal of School Health, 2011
Background: A US federal mandate that school districts devise and implement local wellness policies (LWPs) has potential widespread impact on the nutritional content of foods and beverages available in schools and on the amount of physical activity that students engage in; however, evidence concerning the mandate's effectiveness is limited. This…
Descriptors: Evidence, Physical Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Wellness
Cheng, Albert – Online Submission, 2012
The Common Core State Standards Initiative is the latest development in a long history of standards-based-reform in the United States. As of November 4, 2011, 46 states and the District of Columbia have adopted new curricular standards, called the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). These states and the District of Columbia are now implementing…
Descriptors: State Standards, Academic Achievement, Educational Change, Teacher Attitudes
Palmer, Porter W. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2009
Since Federal regulations have given states the option to implement alternate assessments based on modified academic achievement standards (AA-MAS) as part of their accountability systems for a small group of students with disabilities, a number of states have made decisions about whether or not to develop and implement such an assessment.…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Academic Achievement, Accountability, Academic Standards
Guzman, Alberto; Balcazar, Fabricio E. – Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 2010
This paper presents a study that incorporated an Internet survey to analyze disability-related perspectives held by higher education's disability service providers in the implementation of program standards. Incorporating disability studies scholarship, the quantitative study used the constructs of individual, social, and universal approaches to…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Standards, Program Implementation, Delivery Systems
Werts, Margaret Gessler; Lambert, Monica; Carpenter, Ellen – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2009
An e-mail survey of special education directors was conducted to ascertain practices related to implementation of Response to Intervention (RTI) processes in North Carolina schools. The data indicate that special education directors have information about RTI as a method of identifying students with disabilities, but there is little consensus on…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Mail Surveys, Special Education, Program Implementation
Givens, Mark A. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Virtual work environments (VWEs) have been used in the private sector for more than a decade, but the United States Marine Corps (USMC), as a whole, has not yet taken advantage of associated benefits. The USMC construct parallels the bureaucratic organizational culture and uses an antiquated information technology (IT) infrastructure. During an…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Organizational Culture, Change Agents, Information Technology
Sawyer, L. Brook E.; Campbell, Philippa H. – Journal of Early Intervention, 2009
Researchers have noted divergent findings with respect to the relationships of practitioners' beliefs and their implementation of recommended practices. With Q-sort methods, this study examined practitioners' beliefs about practices in early intervention with samples of current practitioners (n = 211) and preservice students (n = 142). Findings…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Beliefs, Educational Practices, Q Methodology
Thomas, Nicole A. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Students, who are at risk of academic failure, are reading and achieving below their grade level yet the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act requires that all students perform on or above grade level. Results from the 2003 National Assessment of Education Program (NAEP) showed that 37% of fourth graders across the United States are reading below grade…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Federal Legislation, Academic Failure, Reading Achievement
Miwa, Makiko; Kasai, Yumiko; Miyahara, Shizuko – Education for Information, 2011
The GlobaLIS Project intends to attain the globalization of Japanese library and information science (LIS) professional education by defining the requirements for internationally transparent and harmonized educational programs for LIS professionals. We asked three research questions in a stepwise manner: (1) What are the basic requirements for…
Descriptors: Library Education, Curriculum Development, Global Approach, Quality Control
Baicai, Sun; Mingren, Zhao; Jaiyi, Wang – Chinese Education and Society, 2008
Rural compulsory education is a very weak link in the development of China's education system. For many years, an education fiscal input mechanism with the township as the main player was adopted for supporting China's rural compulsory education. In May 2001, China's rural compulsory education was placed under an administrative system of…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Compulsory Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy