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Juan B. Cortes; Zyrashae Smith-Onyewu; Paula Kim-Christian; Nathaniel Dewey; Marc L. Stein – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2023
In this chapter, we examine how spatial access, the extent to which individuals must traverse space or time to reach a community college, varies by time of day across socio-demographic groups. We specifically measure spatial access as the time required to travel to a community college by public transit, a common mode of transportation for many…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Urban Schools, Student Transportation, Travel
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Shaaban, Khaled; Reda, Ranya – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2021
Students use different modes of transport to go to college. While many transportation programs exist at different universities and many experts find these programs to have a positive impact, no studies have investigated the impact of such programs on the absenteeism and academic performance of college students. The main purpose of this study is to…
Descriptors: Student Transportation, Bus Transportation, Attendance, Program Effectiveness
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Morrison, Kevin A. – English in Education, 2022
Can verse mediate between the educational institution and the wider community of which it is a part? Utilising a case study of a specific taught module, this essay considers whether the performance of poetry as an experiential learning activity has a role to play in the emerging concept of the university as an anchor institution, a term that…
Descriptors: Poetry, Oral Interpretation, Urban Universities, Experiential Learning
Alabama State Department of Education, 2023
This Quick Facts document provides a snapshot of facts about Alabama school systems and public schools; Alabama students; Alabama educators; National School Lunch Program lunches served; Alabama school buses; Alabama gifted students; total personnel; average daily attendance; graduation rate; average ACT score; AMSTI schools; ACCESS virtual…
Descriptors: School Districts, Public Schools, Lunch Programs, Bus Transportation
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Dache, Amalia – Journal of Higher Education, 2022
Educational access studies have found that residents' choices and opportunities are often geographically bound and based on capital accumulation rather than educational attainment needs. Public transportation in the United States has a long history of being the primary source of mobility for urban residents, who are more likely than suburban…
Descriptors: Geographic Location, Bus Transportation, Urban Areas, Neighborhoods
Morton, Emily – Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis, 2021
Four-day school weeks have proliferated across the United States in recent years, reaching over 650 public school districts in 24 states as of 2019, but little is known about the effects of the four-day school week on high school students. This study uses district-level panel data from Oklahoma and a difference-in-differences research design to…
Descriptors: School Schedules, Adolescents, High School Students, Academic Achievement