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Meredith S. Billings; Paul G. Rubin; Denisa Gándara – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2025
In 2022, New Mexico joined the list of states that adopted a statewide promise program, offering tuition and fee assistance for eligible students to pursue higher education. The New Mexico Opportunity Scholarship (NMOS) differs from existing programs by including part-time and summer enrollment, academic and workforce degrees, and older adult…
Descriptors: Scholarships, State Aid, State Programs, Student Financial Aid
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Doug Hamman; Shirley M. Matteson; The Nguyen – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2023
Teacher shortages increase yearly while interest in the teaching profession seems to be at an all-time low. Policymakers are again seeing value in high school "grow your own" (GYO) teacher programs as a source of future teacher talent. Against the backdrop of career development models for teaching, we developed an instrument based on…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, High Schools, Teacher Shortage, Career Pathways
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Many, Joyce E.; Bhatnagar, Ruchi; Tanguay, Carla; Favors-Welch, Shaneeka; Thomas, Clarice; Cannon, Susan Ophelia; Ogletree, Tamra; Kim, Jihye; Howrey, Shannon; An, Sohyun; Kurz, Karen; Wilson, Judi – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2019
This study examined the implementation of high-stakes adoption of edTPA® in one state in the year prior to consequential use of edTPA scores for teacher licensure. Using a mixed methods design, we investigated concerns of coordinators who were responsible for edTPA implementation in their institutions. We utilized the Concerns Based Adoption Model…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Preservice Teachers, High Stakes Tests, Teacher Certification
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Malloy, Jake – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2020
Drawing on an actor-network articulation of evaluation theory, this article examines the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction's transition from a punitive teacher evaluation model to a promising new development and support model, which focuses on teacher growth and environmental adjustments. Supported by dozens of interviews and observations…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Public School Teachers, Change, Evaluation Methods
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Close, Kevin; Amrein-Beardsley, Audrey; Collins, Clarin – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2020
The Every Students Succeeds Act (ESSA) loosened the federal policy grip over states' teacher accountability systems. We present information, collected via surveys sent to state department of education personnel, about all states' teacher evaluation systems post-ESSA, while also highlighting differences before and after ESSA. We found that states…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation
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McCurdy, Kathryn; Reagan, Emilie Mitescu; Rogers, Audrey; Schram, Thomas – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2018
A response to Stosich et al.'s (2018) article reviewing ways in which states have taken up performance assessments, this commentary seeks to extend the focus and use of performance assessments to preservice teacher education. As such, the authors describe statewide initiatives in New Hampshire that are working to integrate performance assessments…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Preschool Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
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Sykes, Gary; Martin, Kacy – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2019
This study examined a sample of plans that states submitted to the U.S. Education Department in 2015, pursuant to requirements in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I, Part A. Plans were aimed at redressing inequities in access to qualified teachers as this problem has emerged in states and districts across the country. A…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Teacher Distribution, Low Income Students, Educationally Disadvantaged
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Phelps, L. Allen; Durham, Julie; Wills, Joan – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2011
In response to the rising demand for market-responsive education reform across the U.S., since 1998 more than twenty states have created Individual Learning or Graduation Plan (ILP/IGP) state policies. Using extensive policy document analyses and stakeholder interview data from four early-adopting ILP/IGP states, the goal of this four-state case…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Role of Education, Economic Development, Federal State Relationship
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Williams, Jeffrey M.; Landry, Susan H.; Anthony, Jason L.; Swank, Paul R.; Crawford, April D. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2012
This study presents an empirically-based statewide system that links information about pre-kindergarten programs with children's school readiness scores to certify pre-kindergarten classrooms as promoting school readiness. Over 8,000 children from 1,255 pre-kindergarten classrooms were followed longitudinally for one year. Pre-kindergarten quality…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Kindergarten, Emergent Literacy, Early Childhood Education
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Creamer, Don G.; Janosik, Steven M. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 1999
Determined general and specific processes of program approval and program review found in 50 states and 8 foreign countries. Defines models that depict these procedures and discusses strengths and weaknesses of each. Suggests alternatives to current practices by U.S. state agencies. (SLD)
Descriptors: Educational Planning, Foreign Countries, Models, Program Development
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Mehrens, William A. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 1998
Examines the purposes of large-scale assessment programs, outlines the dangers and benefits of these assessments, considers the research evidence about the consequences of assessment, discusses how to evaluate assessment quality, and presents some ideas about the variables that influence the probabilities for good and bad assessment. (SLD)
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
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Mabry, Linda; Poole, Jayne; Redmond, Linda; Schultz, Angelia – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2003
Studied the beliefs and practices of 31 teachers about classroom assessment and the Washington state assessment program. Data reveal teachers' preferences for multiple assessments, their objections to the state test for certain groups of students, and their preferences for specialized assessments respectful of student circumstances and readiness.…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, State Programs, Teacher Attitudes
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Kirtman, Lisa – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2002
Studied the implementation of a state-funded restructuring initiative that intended broad changes in teacher roles aimed at higher student achievement. Multiple data sources from three schools indicate that the observed changes in professional roles were not well enough established to affect core educational practice in the long run. (SLD)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Implementation
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Kannapel, Patricia J.; Aagaard, Lola; Coe, Pamela; Reeves, Cynthia A. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2000
Examined the development of the Kentucky nongraded primary program at the state level and in six rural elementary schools from 1991 through 1998. Findings show changes teachers made in response to the program mandate and reveal issues that hampered implementation, including entrenched ideas about grade divisions. (SLD)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Nongraded Instructional Grouping, Primary Education, Program Implementation
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Amrein, Audrey L.; Berliner, David C. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2002
Studied 18 states with high-stakes testing to see if their programs were affecting student learning, analyzing results from additional tests covering some of the same domain as each state's own test. Findings suggest that in all but one case, student learning is indeterminate, remains at the same level, or actually decreases with the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, High Stakes Tests, Learning, State Programs
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