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Coughlan, Kelly A. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2015
The "Developmental Indicators for the Assessment of Learning, Fourth Edition" (DIAL-4), is an individually administered screening test of skills and associated rating forms designed to identify children ages 2 years 6 months to 5 years 11 months who may be in need of diagnostic assessment or intervention across five developmental…
Descriptors: Screening Tests, Kindergarten, At Risk Students, Academic Failure
Australian Children's Education and Care Quality Authority, 2020
This occasional paper is the seventh in a series on the National Quality Framework (NQF). It explores the quality of children's education and care services based on the socio-economic status of the area in which they are situated. The Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) Index of Relative Socio-Economic Advantage and Disadvantage (IRSAD) is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Socioeconomic Status, Disadvantaged Youth
Office of Inspector General, US Department of Education, 2020
This Annual Plan presents the major initiatives and priorities the U.S. Department of Education (Department) Office of Inspector General (OIG) intends to undertake to assist the Department in fulfilling its responsibilities to America's taxpayers and students. The Department will face several challenges in FY 2021; perhaps most significant among…
Descriptors: Public Agencies, Strategic Planning, Accountability, Program Administration
Kimmel, Lois; Lachlan, Lisa; Guiden, Andrea – Region 8 Comprehensive Center, 2021
An effective teacher workforce is a diverse teacher workforce. As of 2017, only 5% of Ohio's teachers identify as teachers of color. As more teachers from diverse backgrounds enter the teaching profession in Ohio, they will encounter mentors who do not look like them and may not understand some of their struggles. The purpose of this guide is to…
Descriptors: Mentors, Teacher Effectiveness, Minority Group Teachers, Teacher Characteristics
Hoooker, Sarah; Acevedo, Erica; Dow, Molly – Jobs for the Future, 2021
For over a year, stories of economic devastation, food and housing insecurity, and the challenges of remote learning have dominated headlines as the COVID-19 pandemic ushered in dramatic changes for education, businesses, and communities. In the Columbus, Ohio region, the pandemic widened existing inequalities, as it did across the rest of the…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, COVID-19, Pandemics
Estes, Elizabeth; Davis, Jeff; Shilton, Adrienne; Stoner-Mertz, Christine; Funk, Michael; Eisenberg, Lisa; Weller, Teneh; Knecht, Richard S.; Kelley, Veronica; Kain, Lara; Peck, Jennifer; Rosario, Aleah; Lombardo, Michael; Kimner, Hayin; Jacobs, Melissa; Dickey, Amanda; Epstein, Ken; Aguilar-Gaxiola, Sergio; Alcala, Lupita; Caparas, Ruthie; Coley, Aressa; Justus, Marianne; Willis, Jason; Larsen, Karen – WestEd, 2022
This field guide is a first step by a collaborative of California child-serving education, health, and social service experts and leaders to further California's current efforts toward one effective, integrated, comprehensive, school-based child-serving system. The guide includes guidance for both local education agencies (LEAs) and state leaders,…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Guides, School Districts, Public Officials
Public School Forum of North Carolina, 2022
The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) and the Professional Educator Preparation and Standards Commission (PEPSC) of the State Board of Education are working on a new teacher licensure pathways proposal, Pathways to Excellence for Teaching Professionals (Model). This proposal, if enacted, would restructure the state's system…
Descriptors: School Districts, Elementary Secondary Education, Kindergarten, Administrator Attitudes
Donna Boyd Ramsey – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Although Individual Disabilities Education Act of 2004 (IDEA) has mandated states to collect and analyze data to determine if special education disproportionality is occurring within the local education agencies (LEAs), student of color continue to be disproportionately represented in special education programs. Historical trend data revealed that…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, Equal Education, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation
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Meade, Whitney W.; O'Brien, Jason – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2018
In this case, a child with a spinal cord injury was denied access to an afterschool care program that her nondisabled siblings were allowed to attend because she did not meet "eligibility requirements." Specifically, the independent contractor who ran the program mandated that students be able to function in an environment with a student…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Educational Opportunities, After School Programs, Disabilities
García, Emma; Weiss, Elaine – Economic Policy Institute, 2017
Extensive research has conclusively demonstrated that children's social class is one of the most significant predictors--if not the single most significant predictor--of their educational success. This three-part study combines a statistical analysis of early skills gaps among a recent cohort of children and changes in them over time with a…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Social Class, Predictor Variables, Academic Achievement
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Schochet, Owen N.; Johnson, Anna D.; Phillips, Deborah A. – Exceptional Children, 2020
Program administrators and policy makers have placed a priority on expanding access to inclusive, center-based early care and education (ECE) for low-income children with special needs, a "doubly vulnerable" population characterized by academic and social-emotional achievement gaps at kindergarten entry. Yet, no research has documented…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Environment, Kindergarten, Young Children
Dragoo, Kyrie E.; Lomax, Erin – Congressional Research Service, 2020
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA; P.L. 108-446) is the primary source of federal funding to states for the identification and education of children with disabilities. The majority of IDEA appropriations are allocated to states by formula to carry out activities under Part B, which covers 14 disability categories. Each state is…
Descriptors: Eligibility, Comparative Analysis, Equal Education, Educational Legislation
National School Boards Association, 2020
When K-12 school districts nationwide closed buildings and moved instruction online in the spring of 2020, American life changed. This guide identifies some of the legal issues school leaders should be considering as schools reopen in a world where the new coronavirus and the illness it causes, COVID-19, continue to be major public health…
Descriptors: Pandemics, COVID-19, Privacy, Guides
Reardon, Sean F. – Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis, 2021
Has the gap in average standardized test scores between students from high- and low-income families widened, narrowed, or remained stable over the last 3 decades? The question is important both because the achievement gap is measure of how (un)equally educational opportunities are distributed in the US, and because the disparity in educational…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Scores, Family Income, Academic Achievement
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Cobanoglu, Fatma; Sevim, Suadiye – International Journal of Educational Methodology, 2019
Child Friendly School (CFS) is a democratic environment based on children's rights, where all students are accepted, teaching-learning processes are organized according to children's interest needs, health, safety and protective measures are taken for children and gender-based discrimination is not provided. Preschool education institutions, which…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Student Rights, Kindergarten, Program Effectiveness
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