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Emily K. Penner; Yujia Liu; Aaron J. Ainsworth – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
Non-teaching staff comprise over half of all school employees and their turnover may be consequential for school operation, culture, and student success, yet we lack evidence documenting their attrition. We use 11 years of administrative data from Oregon to examine mobility and exit among teachers, administrators, paraprofessionals, and other…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Mobility, Paraprofessional School Personnel, Teachers
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Julie A. Marsh; James C. Bridgeforth; Laura Steen Mulfinger; Desiree O'Neal; Tong Tong – Grantee Submission, 2024
Although the COVID pandemic dramatically expanded K-12 remote learning in its first years, little is known about the lasting effects on virtual schooling policies and practices. Drawing on evolutionary theories of change and qualitative data from 2019 to 2022, we explore this topic in Oregon, a state with a long history of virtual schools. We find…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Virtual Schools, Distance Education
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Julie A. Marsh; James Bridgeforth; Laura Mulfinger; Desiree O’Neal; Tong Tong – National Center for Research on Education Access and Choice, 2024
Since the peak of the pandemic in 2020, enrollment in virtual schools has steadily increased, with virtual schools now accounting for approximately 1.4% of the nation's public school students. While the effects of the pandemic on student achievement and mental health have been extensively studied, research has yet to thoroughly examine the impact…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Virtual Schools, Distance Education
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Julie Marsh; James Bridgeforth; Laura Mulfinger; Desiree O’Neal; Tong Tong – National Center for Research on Education Access and Choice, 2024
In this paper, the authors draw on evolutionary theories of change and qualitative data from 2019-2022, to explore the impact of the pandemic on K-12 virtual education in a state with a long history of virtual schooling by asking: "How has the ongoing COVID pandemic influenced virtual schooling in Oregon?" A virtual school in this study…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Virtual Schools, Distance Education
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Enoch-Stevens, Taylor; Daramola, Eupha Jeanne; Marsh, Julie; Mulfinger, Laura; Ogden, Kait; Bradley, Duwana; Hemphill, Annie; Williams, Sheneka – National Center for Research on Education Access and Choice, 2023
Over the past two years, there have been calls for racial justice in nearly every sphere of social and political life, including the field of education. As much of the nation reeled at yet another life violently taken at the hands of a police officer, education workers faced the challenge of responding to local and national demands for policy…
Descriptors: Race, Social Justice, Racism, Public Schools
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Kalulu, Mavuto; Burke, Morgan; Snyder, Thomas – eJEP: eJournal of Education Policy, 2020
Charter schools are the most popular alternative to traditional public schooling in the United States. The majority of research indicates positive effects of charter schools on student performance in traditional public schools. Most studies use the share of charter school students enrolled as a measure of the competitive pressure of charter…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Public Schools, Competition, Professional Autonomy
Bransberger, Peace – Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, 2017
The Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education's (WICHE's) ninth edition of "Knocking at the College Door: Projections of High School Graduates," published in December 2016 (revised February 2017), quantified how the demographic changes that are underway with America's youth population will be evidenced in the next 15 years of…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, Demography, Educational Trends, Geographic Regions
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Johnson, Jerry; Ohlson, Matthew A.; Shope, Shane – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 2018
In this descriptive and comparative study, we present results highlighting the complexity and scope of the challenges facing rural districts as they navigate the changing demographics of the students and families they serve. Rapid increases in the number and concentration of racially, culturally, and linguistically diverse students in rural areas…
Descriptors: Demography, Social Change, Population Trends, Rural Areas
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Tindal, Gerald; Nese, Joseph F. T.; Farley, Dan; Saven, Jessica L.; Elliott, Stephen N. – Exceptional Children, 2016
Students with disabilities have been included in state accountability systems for more than a decade; however, only in the past few years have alternate assessments of alternate achievement standards (AA-AAS) become stable enough to allow examination of these students' achievement growth. Using data from Oregon's AA-AAS in Reading during the…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Alternative Assessment, Achievement Gains, Outcome Measures
Stevens, Joseph J.; Nese, Joseph F. T.; Schulte, Ann C.; Tindal, Gerald; Yel, Nedim; Anderson, Daniel; Matta, Tyler; Elliott, Stephen N. – National Center on Assessment and Accountability for Special Education, 2017
This technical report is one of a series of four technical reports that describe the results of a study comparing eight alternative models for estimating school academic achievement using data from the Arizona, North Carolina, Oregon, and Pennsylvania accountability systems. The purpose of these reports was to evaluate a broad range of models…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Models, Computation, Comparative Analysis
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Pierson, Ashley; Hodara, Michelle; Luke, Jonathan – Regional Educational Laboratory Northwest, 2017
Oregon's postsecondary attainment goal for 2025, adopted in 2011, calls for 40 percent of Oregon adults to have a bachelor's degree or higher, 40 percent to have an associate's degree or postsecondary certificate, and the remaining 20 percent to have a high school diploma or equivalent (S. 253, Or. 2011). As in other states a central strategy for…
Descriptors: High School Students, College Credits, Advanced Placement Programs, Program Descriptions
Oregon Department of Education, 2017
The American Indian/Alaska Native Students in Oregon report has been prepared by the Office of Accountability, Research and Information Services for the Advisor to the Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction on Indian Education. It is being made available to the public and interested stakeholders to further conversations about improving…
Descriptors: American Indian Students, Alaska Natives, American Indian Education, Public Education
Oregon Department of Education, 2017
The Oregon English Language Learner Report is an annual publication required by law (ORS 327.016). This report provides financial information for English language learner (ELL) programs, the objectives and needs of students eligible for and enrolled in an English language learner program, and information on the demographics of students in English…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, State Legislation, Student Characteristics, School Districts
Oregon Department of Education, 2017
The Oregon Statewide Report Card is an annual publication required by law (ORS 329.115), which reports on the state of public schools and their progress towards the goals of the Oregon Educational Act for the 21st Century. The purpose of the Oregon Report Card is to monitor trends among school districts and Oregon's progress toward achieving the…
Descriptors: Public Schools, State Legislation, Educational Trends, Trend Analysis