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Kai Mathews; Hui Huang; Erika Yagi; Cathy Balfe; Christopher Mauerman; Earl J. Edwards – Civil Rights Project - Proyecto Derechos Civiles, 2024
The diversity of California's teaching force continues to lag behind its student population. While students of Color make up 78% of the state's K-12 population, Teachers of Color and Indigenous Teachers (TOCIT) comprise just 34% of the teaching workforce (California Department of Education, 2018), a statistic that has dominated the teacher…
Descriptors: Barriers, Diversity (Faculty), Minority Group Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education
Singh, Parminder K. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Schools in the United States are not producing competent STEM graduates qualified to meet employment demands. STEM employment is projected to increase twice as quickly as all other occupations combined over the next decade. Since competition is increasing internationally for scientific and technological innovations, the United States is focusing…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, STEM Education, Student Attitudes, Parent Attitudes
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Noureddine, Ikbal; Vasquez Heilig, Julian – Multicultural Education Review, 2020
Students who are newcomers to the United States -- as English Learners (ELs) -- face barriers to learning, and their academic success often lags behind their native-English-speaking peers. Notably, there is paucity in the literature about Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) high school student newcomers' academic challenges as ELs and the…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Barriers, High School Students, Foreign Countries
Henderson, Anne T. – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University (NJ1), 2010
The program profiles presented in this paper provide background for the research report "Building Local Leadership for Change: A National Scan of Parent Leadership Training Programs." The full report describes four types of parent leadership training programs identified in the scan and gives examples of each. These four types are: (1)…
Descriptors: Parents, Leadership Training, Adult Programs, Adult Education
Journal for Vocational Special Needs Education, 2006
This report provides an in-depth look at five different programs, all of which currently, or are making efforts to, include a broad range of students. The five Credit-Based Transition Programs (CBTPs) studied are located in five states--California, Iowa, Minnesota, New York and Texas--and included two dual enrollment programs (one with a career…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Dual Enrollment, Tech Prep, Advanced Placement Programs
University of Southern California, Los Angeles. School of Education. – 1968
The proceedings include the following: three papers on state finance; six on state legislation; 10 on state, county, and community resources; two on special education administration; seven on recruitment problems and training of personnel; and 11 on curriculum and program planning. Keynote and banquet addresses treat administrative problems and…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrator Role, Behavior Change, Community Resources