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Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, 2006
This report provides an overview of the Running Start program; data about student participation rates and academic performance; updates on savings to families, taxpayers and the state; and new information about national trends in dual-credit programs. Running Start is a program that allows 11th and 12th grade students to take college courses at…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Technical Institutes, State Colleges, Acceleration (Education)
Kendall, John S.; Snyder, Christina – Mid-Continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL), 2005
This report is one in a series of reference documents designed especially to assist educators who are directly involved in the revision and improvement of content standards. It presumes a basic understanding of the purposes for standards and the process of standards review and evaluation. This report may be of interest to curriculum directors,…
Descriptors: National Standards, Grade 12, High School Students, English Curriculum
Wright, Dianne; Bogotch, Ira – Journal of College Admission, 2006
Over the last several years there have been numerous calls for reforming high school to college transitions. In 2000-2001, the American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF) and the National Commission on the High School Senior Year respectively called for a re-thinking of how students moved from secondary to postsecondary education. A widely-discussed…
Descriptors: High Schools, College Credits, Grade 10, Youth
Dawson, Edgar – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1923
Twenty-five years ago "history and civics" was the term generally applied to the efforts of the schools to explain man in society. The amount of civics in the combination is indicated by the fact that the committee of seven of the American Historical Association, reporting in 1898 on the study of history in the schools, recommended that…
Descriptors: United States History, Social Studies, Sociology, Citizenship Education
Lourens, A.; Smit, I. P. J. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2003
Universities and technikons have been struggling to meet the demands of growing numbers of students who enter higher education with limited skills. Higher Education literature abroad provides an exhaustive range of theory about the reasons for students leaving (cited in Strauss & Volkwein 2002), as well as proposals for positive intervention.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Predictor Variables, Foreign Countries, Grade 12
Horn, Stacey S. – Cognitive Development, 2006
Reports on the school climate for gay and lesbian students in the United States suggest that negative attitudes toward gay and lesbian individuals are quite common in adolescence. Very little research, however, has investigated adolescents' sexual prejudice from a developmental perspective. In this study, 10th- (N = 119) and 12th- (N = 145) grade…
Descriptors: Sexual Orientation, Adolescents, Young Adults, Beliefs
ACT, Inc., 2005
To find out whether high school grade inflation exists, data drawn from students who took the ACT in the eleventh or twelfth grades and graduated from public high schools were examined. Because grade inflation is by definition a factor that develops over time, data from a relatively long period, 1991 to 2003, or 13 years were used. The number of…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Grade Inflation, Economic Climate, High Schools
Adelman, Clifford – Community College Journal, 2003
Among the principal assumptions that have governed enrollment management in community colleges for the past two decades is that the community college sector serves a distinctly older population than do other sectors of the post-secondary system. When the noted community college researcher, Arthur Cohen of the University of California-Los Angeles,…
Descriptors: Age, Community Colleges, Enrollment Management, Higher Education
Nathan, Julie S.; Camara, Wayne J. – College Entrance Examination Board, 1998
Each year over one million high school students complete the SAT[superscript R] I. Information on repeat testing and the probability that a student's SAT I score will change may help students and educators make better-informed decisions about retesting. This information would also be useful for high school counselors who advise students regarding…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, High School Students, College Bound Students, Scores
Maryland State Department of Education, 2006
This document provides information about teacher candidates completing programs in Maryland institutions of higher education and the hiring needs of local school systems. The report also outlines a number of incentives and strategies for the recruitment and retention of quality teachers for Maryland public schools. The Maryland State Department of…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Incentives, Teacher Retirement, Alternative Teacher Certification
Attali, Yigal; Burstein, Jill – ETS Research Report Series, 2005
The e-rater® system has been used by ETS for automated essay scoring since 1999. This paper describes a new version of e-rater (v.2.0) that differs from the previous one (v.1.3) with regard to the feature set and model building approach. The paper describes the new version, compares the new and previous versions in terms of performance, and…
Descriptors: Essay Tests, Automation, Scoring, Comparative Analysis

Coblin, Mary Payne; Huss, Dorothy; Kirk, Bonnie; Lonneman, Melissa; Melville, Claire – National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center, 1998
This unit was created as a result of a summer institute sponsored by the National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. The Center's goal is to improve student learning of foreign languages in kindergarten through twelfth grade (K-12). To this end, the Center provides professional support for foreign language…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Grade 12
Castellanos, Jeanett, Ed.; Gloria, Alberta M., Ed.; Kamimura, Mark, Ed. – Stylus Publishing, LLC, 2005
This is the first book specifically to engage with the absence of Latinas/os in doctoral studies. It proposes educational and administrative strategies to open up the pipeline, and institutional practices to ensure access, support, models and training for Latinas/os aspiring to the Ph.D. The under-education of Latina/o youth begins early. Given…
Descriptors: Doctoral Degrees, Higher Education, Student Experience, Masculinity
Livingston, Andrea, Ed.; Wirt, John, Ed. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2003
This publication contains a sample of the 44 indicators in "The Condition of Education 2003." The indicators in this publication are numbered sequentially, rather than according to their numbers in the complete edition. The Contents page offers a cross reference between the two publications. Since 1870, the federal government has…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment, Family Characteristics, Poverty