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Zimmerle, Joanna C. – Computers in the Schools, 2021
In an effort to slow the spread of the highly infectious disease coronavirus (COVID-19), school districts around the world closed school buildings, thrusting educators into emergency remote teaching. Although many vendors were quick to release tutorial guides and free trials for their online learning resources, the growing concern over student…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Distance Education
Trejo, Sam; Yeomans-Maldonado, Gloria; Jacob, Brian – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2021
Lead poisoning has well-known impacts for the developing brain of young children, with a large literature documenting the negative effects of elevated blood lead levels on academic and behavioral outcomes. In April of 2014, the municipal water source in Flint, Michigan was changed, causing lead from aging pipes to leach into the city's drinking…
Descriptors: Water Quality, Hazardous Materials, Outcomes of Education, Longitudinal Studies
Douglas Anthony Taylor – ProQuest LLC, 2021
McMillan Public Schools (MPS) is a public school system in the southeastern part of the United States that serves approximately 28,000 students. Gregory Middle School (GMS) is one of 52 schools within MPS that serves 985 students. I used MPS and GMS as pseudonyms to anonymize the school system and school. In July 2019, I was appointed as the…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Educational Environment, Poverty, Disadvantaged Schools
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Ryder, Andrew; Kimball, Ezekiel; Hastings, J. D.; Slauzis, Danielle – College Student Affairs Journal, 2022
Using data from twenty-one interviews conducted with student affairs practitioners within a constructivist grounded theory study, we examined how legal issues influence the daily work of student affairs professionals. Findings demonstrate that concerns about legal issues may intrude on student-centered practice, which participants identified as a…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Workers, Student Personnel Services, Legal Problems, Constructivism (Learning)
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Teichert, Christian; Liefner, Ingo; Otto, Anne – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2022
With growing numbers of university graduates, the choice of academic programs has gained in importance to enter the labor market successfully. Simultaneously, the link between the field of study and actual professional career is becoming increasingly blurry. This paper aims to contribute to a better understanding of these relations and to position…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Geography Instruction, Geography, Majors (Students)
Hunt Institute, 2022
From Fall 2019 through Spring 2020, The Hunt Institute released a series of policy briefs, "Attainment for All: Postsecondary Pathways," that highlighted scalable state-level strategies to boost postsecondary attainment rates among specific student subpopulations including high school graduates, first-generation students, and adult…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Postsecondary Education, Equal Education, Access to Education
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Brown, Michael; Klein, Carrie – Journal of Higher Education, 2020
The proliferation of information technology tools in higher education has resulted in an explosion of data about students and their contexts. Yet, current policies governing these data are limited in their usefulness for informing students, instructors, and administrators of their rights and responsibilities related to data use because they are…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Privacy, School Policy, Policy Analysis
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Kilgore, Wendy – College and University, 2020
2019 was a bit different from previous years for the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) Research. Since they had six larger-scale research projects (of which several were calendared over the summer months), they did not want to overly burden their members with surveys. This resulted in four 60-Second…
Descriptors: Registrars (School), Admissions Officers, Institutional Characteristics, College Admission
Thao Thu Vo – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In compliance with The Every Student Succeeds Act, many states report "chronic absenteeism" as an indicator of student success. While chronic absenteeism is prevalent across the country, marginalized youth experience differential rates compared to their White peers. The disproportionate overrepresentation of marginalized youth is partly…
Descriptors: Risk Assessment, Attendance, Self Concept, Cultural Background
District of Columbia Public Schools, 2024
This District of Columbia Public Schools School Year 2024-2025 "Parental Right to Know Guide" informs parents on their rights with regard to the following: (1) Notice of Non-Discrimination and Non-Retaliation; (2) Teachers and Paraprofessionals; (3) Student Achievement (DC CAPE Data); (4) Student Records; (5) Unsafe School Choice Option;…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Parent Rights, Access to Information, Equal Education
Isaac, James; Velez, Erin; Roberson, Amanda Janice – Institute for Higher Education Policy, 2023
Students, families, colleges, and lawmakers need clearer information on postsecondary outcomes to make informed decisions. By leveraging data available at institutions and federal agencies, a nationwide student-level data network (SLDN) would close information gaps that persist in our higher education landscape to answer critical questions about…
Descriptors: College Students, Data, Information Networks, Program Design
O'Hara, Amy – Institute for Higher Education Policy, 2019
Our current federal postsecondary data system is incomplete and fails to provide today's students with the accurate, timely information that they need to inform their college choices and promote their success. As policymakers consider proposals to improve this federal data system, they should model best practices of responsible data-use to ensure…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Information Dissemination, Information Management, Information Security
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Kisling, Reid; Peterson, Andrew; Nisbet, Robert – Strategic Enrollment Management Quarterly, 2021
Data analytics is undergoing an evolution through effective data use to support both operational and learning analytics models. However, this evolution will require that institutional leaders transform their data systems to best support the needs of application modeling and use their intuition to help drive the development of better analytical…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Learning Analytics, Models, Instructional Leadership
Cole, Jared P. – Congressional Research Service, 2021
Schools generate and maintain numerous student records, including grades, standardized test scores, disciplinary accounts, contact information, mental health records, and more. The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), which applies to educational agencies and institutions that receive certain types of financial assistance from the…
Descriptors: Parent Rights, Student Records, Privacy, Educational Legislation
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Chang, Bo – American Association for Adult and Continuing Education, 2021
The purpose of this paper is to explore privacy issues in online learning. This study shows that there are direct legal-related privacy issues, such as students' personal data and grades protected by the FERPA, and students' right to protect their privacy in the context of a public website. There are also some privacy issues which occurred in much…
Descriptors: Privacy, Online Courses, Laws, Grades (Scholastic)
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