The State Compensatory Education (SCE) program is designed to reduce dropout rates and increase academic performance of students identified as being at-risk of dropping out of school. SCE operates as a funding source to supplement instructional services and offer academic support to students who meet the SCE at-risk criteria established by the…

Threat assessment has been widely endorsed as a school safety practice, but there is little research on its implementation. In 2013, Virginia became the first state to mandate student threat assessment in its public schools. The purpose of this study was to examine the statewide implementation of threat assessment and to identify how threat…

The annual report contains a narrative description of New York State's accomplishments in terms of the objectives of the fiscal year 1974 State Plan for the Administration of Occupational Education under the Vocational Education Amendments of 1968, as well as important statistical information concerning the status of occupational education in the…

Study of North Carolina's program for the exceptionally talented indicated a growth in enrollment which, however, remained at less than 1.5% of the public school population. Of the enrollers, 51% were in special language arts classes and 11% in self-contained classes; grade levels 9 through 12 had the highest enrollment. IQ scores ranged from 98…

This research examined student demographic (gender, ethnicity, grades, and previous home economics experience) and geographic (rural/urban school locale and individual school) factors that may be related to performance on a statewide New Mexico achievement test under development in the home economics subject matter area of consumer education and…

This report summarizes evaluation results for AISD's state-funded State Compensatory Education program activities during the 2002-2003 school year.