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Local Homeless Liaisons for School Districts: Making the Right Selection and Supporting Their Effectiveness. Best Practices in Homeless Education Brief Series
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National Center for Homeless Education at SERVE, 2015
Homeless children and youth experience many challenges in enrolling and attending school and achieving educational success. The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (reauthorized under Title X, Part C of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, and subsequently referred to as the McKinney-Vento Act in this brief) ensures rights and services for…
Descriptors: Homeless People, School Districts, Best Practices, Related Services (Special Education)
The Random Assignment of Students into Elementary Classrooms: Implications for Value-Added Analyses and Interpretations
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Paufler, Noelle A.; Amrein-Beardsley, Audrey – American Educational Research Journal, 2014
Value-added models (VAMs) are used to measure changes in student achievement on large-scaled standardized test scores from year to year. When aggregated, VAM estimates are used to measure teacher effectiveness and hold teachers accountable for the value they purportedly add to or detract from student learning and achievement. In this study,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Student Placement, Models, Educational Policy
Review of "The Education Choice and Competition Index"
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Garcia, David R. – National Education Policy Center, 2013
In this report the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution presents the results of a self-developed Education Choice and Competition Index (ECCI) along with an interactive application that grades large school districts according to the ECCI. The index is composed of 13 pro choice criteria. The authors present the ECCI as a…
Descriptors: Evidence, Competition, School Choice, School District Size