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The Impact of Senate Bill 1456 on California Rural Community College Students
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Jamal Tyrone Wright – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This study focused on the policy impact of SB 1456 (2012) on students enrolled in rural community colleges in California. SB 1456 (2012) was signed into law with the intent to increase student success rates that ultimately resulted in the completion of educational goals for students in California Community Colleges (CCC). In order to examine the…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Community College Students, Academic Achievement, State Legislation
Improving Reading Achievement in High Poverty, Rural Schools
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Tufts, Janet – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this quantitative study was to determine what correlation exists between a student's poverty coefficient and the daily number of minutes provided for independent reading and third grade reading achievement level as measured by California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) in small, rural school…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Poverty, Correlation, Reading Instruction
Leading Change for the Implementation of Common Core State Standards in Rural School Districts
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Lopez, Paul; Wise, Donald – Education Leadership Review of Doctoral Research, 2015
Rural school districts across the nation, with their limited resources, face daunting challenges posed by the implementation of the Common Core State Standards. This article presents a recent study of 13 rural school districts in the Central Valley of California and how these districts are responding to those challenges. A total of 352 teachers…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, Educational Change, Rural Schools, School Districts