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Clemens, Elysia V.; Shahan, Liz – Online Submission, 2019
The Colorado Department of Education recently received state funding to implement a Student Re-Engagement Grant Program (SRGP). The goal of this project is to inform the administration of the SRGP by looking back at data from a previously administered grant program, called Colorado Graduation Pathways (CGP). The CGP program was a federally funded…
Descriptors: State Programs, Dropout Programs, Dropout Prevention, Dropouts
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Capraro, Mary Margaret; Capraro, Robert M.; Yetkiner, Z. Ebrar; Rangel-Chavez, Alma F.; Lewis, Chance W. – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2010
Hispanic students, born both inside and outside the United States, comprise over 80% of the US English language learner population. The difference in mathematics achievement among Hispanic students and other populations has been well documented. As a result, it is important to understand the effects of using standards-based mathematics curriculum…
Descriptors: Mathematics Curriculum, Urban Schools, Mathematics Achievement, High Stakes Tests
Zimmer, Ron; Gill, Brian; Booker, Kevin; Lavertu, Stephane; Sass, Tim R.; Witte, John – RAND Corporation, 2009
The first U.S. charter school opened in 1992, and the scale of the charter movement has since grown to 4,000 schools and more than a million students in 40 states plus the District of Columbia. With this growth has also come a contentious debate about the effects of the schools on their own students and on students in nearby traditional public…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Research Methodology, Probability, Student Characteristics