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Direct linkMacy, Beth – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
Claiborne Pell lived in a waterfront house in Newport, Rhode Island. The Princeton-educated senator came from such old money that his people once owned much of New York's Westchester County and the Bronx. Having grown up in a roach-ridden house, it didn't seem to the author that she and Pell inhabited the same universe. Even so, when she learned…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Student Financial Aid, Grants, Profiles
Peer reviewedLandry, Susan H.; Zucker, Tricia A.; Taylor, Heather B.; Swank, Paul R.; Williams, Jeffrey M.; Assel, Michael; Crawford, April; Huang, Weihua; Clancy-Menchetti, Jeanine; Lonigan, Christopher J.; Phillips, Beth M.; Eisenberg, Nancy; Spinrad, Tracy L.; de Viliers, Jill; de Viliers, Peter; Barnes, Marcia; Starkey, Prentice; Klein, Alice – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Despite reports of positive effects of high-quality child care, few experimental studies have examined the process of improving low-quality center-based care for toddler-age children. In this article, we report intervention effects on child care teachers' behaviors and children's social, social-emotional classroom activities (RECC).…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Early Childhood Education, At Risk Persons, Toddlers
Figuera, Renée; Ferreira, Leiba-Ann – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2014
Since the introduction of the Education for All policy of the Government Assistance for Tuition Expenses (GATE) in Trinidad and Tobago, more tertiary level classrooms have been furnished with mixed linguistic and academic abilities and have accommodated more non-traditional tertiary-level entrants into the educational system. The expansion of the…
Descriptors: Tuition, Higher Education, Private Colleges, Foreign Countries
Download full textOnguko, Brown Bully – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2014
JiFUNzeni blended learning approach is a sustainable approach to provision of professional development (PD) for those in challenging educational contexts. JiFUNzeni approach emphasizes training regional experts to create blended learning content, working with appropriate technology while building content repositories. JiFUNzeni approach was…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Faculty Development, Sustainability, Educational Technology
Jennings, Jennifer; Sohn, Heeju – Sociology of Education, 2014
How do proficiency-based accountability systems affect inequality in academic achievement? This article reconciles mixed findings in the literature by demonstrating that three factors jointly determine accountability's impact. First, by analyzing student-level data from a large urban school district, we find that when educators face accountability…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, High Stakes Tests, Standards
Meir, Yael; Slone, Michelle; Levis, Mira – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2014
Background: The social-ecological environment of undocumented children of migrant workers includes varying levels of risk factors. Growing up in these conditions compromises children's development on all levels. Many of these children are in need of psychotherapy, however, due to limited resources, only a few of them receive mental health aid.…
Descriptors: Social Influences, Undocumented Immigrants, Migrant Workers, At Risk Persons
Trujillo, Tina M.; Woulfin, Sarah L. – American Educational Research Journal, 2014
Intermediary organizations increasingly provide support for schools serving marginalized students. Some attribute this trend to growing ideological support for market-based strategies to further the public good. This article investigates one intermediary that marketed equity-oriented instructional goals for schools serving high numbers of students…
Descriptors: Standards, Educational Change, Accountability, Teaching Methods
Hart, Cassandra M. D. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2014
This study examines public school characteristics, and public and private school market characteristics, associated with participation among elementary-aged students in a means-tested school voucher program in Florida. Participants are more likely than eligible nonparticipants to come from disadvantaged public schools on multiple dimensions. On…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Institutional Characteristics, Private Schools, Participation
Walters, Christopher – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2014
Studies of small-scale "model" early-childhood programs show that high-quality preschool can have transformative effects on human capital and economic outcomes. Evidence on the Head Start program is more mixed. Inputs and practices vary widely across Head Start centers, however, and little is known about variation in effectiveness within…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Human Capital, Evidence, Federal Programs
North Dakota Department of Public Instruction, 2014
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the numbers of children identified with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) continues to rise. In North Dakota, the percentage of students identified with an ASD has increased from 1.9% of the total population of students with disabilities in 2004 to 6.2% of that same group in 2013-14.…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Incidence, Student Needs
Data Quality Campaign, 2014
A wide array of federal funding opportunities exists to help states build a secure infrastructure to support data use and ensure that students are prepared for college and careers. Because the reporting requirements for these programs are frequently developed without input from other programs and agencies, grantees are required to report data that…
Descriptors: Student Records, Data Collection, Compliance (Legal), Federal Programs
Mathers, Sandra; Eisenstadt, Naomi; Sylva, Kathy; Soukakou, Elena; Ereky-Stevens, Katharina – Sutton Trust, 2014
This report provides a literature review of the evidence on the quality of early childhood education and care for children under three. It considers the implications for policy and practice, particularly for the Government's programme of free early years provision for disadvantaged two year-olds. The review of the research evidence identified four…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Educational Quality, Early Childhood Education, Disadvantaged Youth
Sutton Trust, 2014
Ahead of the party conference season, the Sutton Trust is urging fairer admissions to comprehensives, grammar schools and independent schools as part of a 10-point Mobility Manifesto setting out ten practical policy steps designed to put social mobility at the heart of the 2015 election campaign. The manifesto urges greater use of ballots (random…
Descriptors: Social Mobility, Admission (School), Urban Schools, Educational Quality
Webb, Michael – Jobs For the Future, 2014
Early college schools are succeeding at our nation's most daunting educational challenge--propelling students from underserved backgrounds to graduate high school and earn postsecondary degrees. These schools combine high school and college in rigorous, yet supportive environments that embrace acceleration over remediation. Their "college for…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Access to Education, College Preparation, College Readiness
Stetser, Marie C.; Stillwell, Robert – National Center for Education Statistics, 2014
This National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) First Look report introduces new data for two separate measures of 4-year on-time graduation rates as well as event dropout rates for school year (SY) 2010-11 and SY 2011-12. Specifically this report provides the following: (1) Four-year adjusted cohort graduation rate (ACGR) data reported by…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Dropout Rate, Public Schools, High Schools
