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Emily Rauscher; Greer Mellon; Susanna Loeb; Carolyn Abott – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
Targeted school funding is a potentially valuable policy lever to increase educational equality by race, ethnicity, and income, but it remains unclear how to target funds most effectively. We use a regression discontinuity approach to compare districts that narrowly passed or failed a school funding election. We use close tax elections in 9 states…
Descriptors: School District Spending, Financial Support, School Funds, Outcomes of Education
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Corpora, Joseph V.; Fraga, Luis Ricardo – Journal of Catholic Education, 2016
In this essay we use the framework of ideas, interests, and institutions (Heclo, 1994) to analyze the opportunities and challenges that confront Latino families and Catholic schools as they work to increase Latino enrollment. There are many ideas as to what to do to increase Latino enrollment. It is also apparent that it is in the interests of…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Hispanic American Students, Access to Education, Enrollment
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Gándara, Denisa; Li, Amy – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2020
Promise programs are proliferating across the United States, with wide variation in their design. Using national data on 33 Promise programs affecting single, 2-year colleges, this study examines program effects on first-time, full-time college enrollments of students by race/ethnicity and gender classification. Results suggest Promise programs…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Enrollment, Two Year College Students, Student Financial Aid
Office of English Language Acquisition, US Department of Education, 2015
The Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA) has synthesized key data on English learners (ELs) into two-page PDF sheets, by topic, with graphics, plus key contacts. This document presents highlights relating to English learners and college and career readiness covering school-year (SY) 2011-2012. The topics for this report include: (1)…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, College Readiness, Career Readiness, High School Graduates
Faircloth, Susan C.; Tippeconnic, John W., III – Civil Rights Project / Proyecto Derechos Civiles, 2010
This paper examines the graduation/dropout crisis among American Indian and Alaska Native students using data from the National Center for Education Statistics. Data from 2005 is drawn from the seven states with the highest percentage of American Indian and Alaska Native students as well as five states in the Pacific and Northwestern regions of…
Descriptors: American Indians, Alaska Natives, Dropouts, American Indian Education
College Board Advocacy & Policy Center, 2012
In 2011, the National Office for School Counselor Advocacy launched a journal series to support and build awareness of the issues and challenges raised by the College Board Advocacy & Policy Center's research report, "The Educational Experience of Young Men of Color" (youngmenofcolor.collegeboard.org.) The intent of the series is to…
Descriptors: Minority Groups, African American Students, Males, Educational Experience
Shaw, Frederic E., Ed. – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2008
The "Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report" ("MMWR") Series is prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Data in the weekly "MMWR" are provisional, based on weekly reports to CDC by state health departments. This issue of "MMWR" contains the following studies: (1) Youth Risk Behavior…
Descriptors: Death, Heart Disorders, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Sexually Transmitted Diseases