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Kristen Hengtgen; Hector Biaggi – Education Trust, 2024
Research shows that when students have access to advanced coursework opportunities, they work harder and are more engaged in school, have fewer absences and suspensions and higher graduation rates. Unfortunately, many Black and Latino students and students from low-income backgrounds lack equitable access to advanced coursework opportunities, such…
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, Access to Education, African American Students, Hispanic American Students
Kristen Hengtgen; Hector Biaggi – Education Trust, 2024
Research shows that when students have access to advanced coursework opportunities, they work harder and are more engaged in school, have fewer absences and suspensions and higher graduation rates. Unfortunately, many Black and Latino students and students from low-income backgrounds lack equitable access to advanced coursework opportunities, such…
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, Access to Education, African American Students, Hispanic American Students
Allison Gilmour; Equia Aniagyei-Cobbold; Roddy Theobald – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2024
We used longitudinal staffing data from Pennsylvania to explore differences in special education personnel attrition across personnel categories, individual characteristics, and district characteristics. Special education administrators and school psychologists had the highest attrition rates among special education personnel, with special…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Faculty Mobility, Teacher Persistence, Teacher Characteristics
Wang, Huan; Kim, Dong-In – Online Submission, 2022
A fundamental premise in assessment is that the underlying construct is equivalent across different groups of students and that this structure does not vary over years. The pandemic has potentially impacted opportunity to learn and disrupted the internal structure of assessments in various ways. Past research has suggested that students tended to…
Descriptors: Measurement, Error of Measurement, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Hudson, Lisa; Kaatz, Talia; Battle, Danielle; Hall, L. Jane; Bahr, Steven; Eyster, Sandy – National Center for Education Statistics, 2023
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has lo//ng reported on public and private school enrollments. But it is only since the late 1990s that NCES has collected information on homeschooling, after the expansion of its National Household Education Surveys Program (NHES) to address this topic. The past two decades have also seen growth…
Descriptors: Home Schooling, Distance Education, Electronic Learning, Information Technology
Kurtz, Holly; Lloyd, Sterling; Harwin, Alex; Guo, Beilei – Editorial Projects in Education, 2022
The onset of the coronavirus pandemic caused widespread educational disruptions for K-12 students and educators, alike. The impacts of the pandemic--such as learning loss during remote instruction and social isolation--have taken a toll on students and increased calls to assist them in developing the social-emotional skills needed to cope with…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
Pew Research Center, 2018
A new analysis of party identification, based on more than 10,000 interviews of registered voters conducted by Pew Research Center in 2017, finds that 37% of registered voters identify as independents, 33% are Democrats, and 26% are Republicans. For decades, women have been more likely than men to identify as Democrats or lean Democratic. But…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Educational Attainment, Voting, Political Affiliation
Gutierrez, Emily; Terrones, Fanny – Urban Institute, 2023
Across the United States, students attending rural school districts can face different obstacles than their urban counterparts, particularly rural students from households living below the federal poverty level. But how rural districts are defined can vary by federal, state, and local entity and can sometimes not capture the difficulties specific…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Rural Schools, School Districts, Definitions
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Schwartz, Heather L.; Diliberti, Melissa Kay; Grant, David – RAND Corporation, 2021
This report provides the survey questions and weighted responses from a July 2021 survey of parents concerning school hesitancy and preferences for COVID-19 safety practices in schools in the United States. The results are intended to inform school districts' and health officials' planning for operating schools in fall 2021. [For the survey…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Parent Attitudes
Schwartz, Heather L.; Diliberti, Melissa Kay; Berdie, Lisa; Grant, David; Hunter, Gerald P.; Setodji, Claude Messan – RAND Corporation, 2021
Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, progressively more complete data have shed light on the tremendous variation in districts' approaches to schooling. Some districts have provided fully remote learning since the outset of the pandemic, some have mostly provided in-person learning, and others have fallen somewhere in between. In this report,…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Rural Urban Differences, School Districts
Robson, Kelly; Burgoyne-Allen, Phillip; Squire, Juliet; Schulz, Jeff – Bellwether Education Partners, 2019
Fourteen percent of the nation's population lives in rural communities, and one in five K-12 students attends a rural school. This is a substantial portion of the population, but it's far too often overlooked by education analysts, advocates, and policymakers. Rural communities tend to face some persistent challenges, including higher rates of…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Rural Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Barriers
Tennessee Higher Education Commission, 2013
This report presents data on the educational attainment of Tennessee residents by county, postsecondary degree level, age group, and ethnicity. The report is made available through interactive maps which allow the user to view county-level educational attainment data for different populations. Data for this analysis were drawn from the U.S. Census…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Counties, Age Differences, Ethnicity
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Bohrnstedt, G.; Kitmitto, S.; Ogut, B.; Sherman, D.; Chan, D. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2015
School Composition and the Black-White Achievement Gap explores public schools' demographic composition, in particular, the proportion of Black students enrolled in schools (also referred to "Black student density" in schools) and its relation to the Black-White achievement gap. This NCES study, the first of its kind, used the 2011 NAEP…
Descriptors: School Demography, Racial Composition, Achievement Gap, Public Schools
Minnesota Department of Education, 2015
Every two years, the Educator Licensing Division of the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) is tasked with producing a report on the supply and demand of teachers. By statute, that report must contain data collected by surveying Minnesota public school districts, charter schools, and teacher preparation institutions. This report presents…
Descriptors: Teacher Supply and Demand, School Districts, Charter Schools, Teacher Education Programs
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Dragoset, Lisa; Thomas, Jaime; Herrmann, Mariesa; Deke, John; James-Burdumy, Susanne; Graczewski, Cheryl; Boyle, Andrea; Upton, Rachel; Tanenbaum, Courtney; Giffin, Jessica – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2017
In response to the recession that began in 2007, the U.S. Congress passed, and President Barack Obama signed into law, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Pub. Law 111-5). At an estimated cost of $831 billion, this economic stimulus package sought to save and create jobs, provide temporary relief to those adversely affected by the…
Descriptors: Grants, Educational Improvement, Federal Aid, Federal Programs
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