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Cisneros, Casey – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This critical narrative study examined the disconnect between special education law and practice in the rural Desert/Mountain region of Southern California. The Desert/Mountain region encompasses over 18,000 square miles, creating a geographic isolation that impacts special education service delivery and implementation of Individualized Education…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Special Education, Rural Areas, Geographic Regions
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Rufsvold, Ronda; Smolen, Elaine; Hartman, Maria; Fleming, Lauren – Journal of Early Intervention, 2023
Parents of children who are newly identified as deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) face many decisions surrounding communication and intervention, including where to receive early intervention (EI) services. This study explored the experiences and perspectives of parents of DHH children enrolled in a center-based, family-centered EI program focused on…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Students with Disabilities, Parent Attitudes
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Lo, Michelle T.; Ruef, Jennifer L. – Journal of Urban Mathematics Education, 2020
As institutions strive to improve teaching and learning for all, educators must consider equitable instruction. This includes equitable distributions of authority and agency among students. The authors define distribution of authority as shared opportunities for decision-making in enacting mathematical tasks and agency as the power to carry out…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Group Activities, Student Empowerment, Participative Decision Making
Hahnel, Carrie; Humphrey, Daniel C. – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2021
California enacted a groundbreaking shift to its school-funding system when it passed the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) in 2013. The law sought to make funding more equitable and also aimed to increase local control based on the premise that budgeting decisions are best made at the local level in partnership with community stakeholders, who…
Descriptors: Funding Formulas, School Districts, Educational Equity (Finance), Budgets
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Kimbrel, Laurie – Administrative Issues Journal: Connecting Education, Practice, and Research, 2019
Student success is dependent on teacher quality; therefore, it is imperative that principals hire the teachers most likely to experience success as measured by the impact on student outcomes. This study investigated teacher hiring processes to determine the extent to which practices that are supported by selection science and teacher quality…
Descriptors: Teacher Selection, Best Practices, Evidence Based Practice, Principals
Fialho, Frank Stephen – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this causal-comparative research study was to examine the impact of an Integrated Business Curriculum Program (IBCP) and its effects on career decision-making self-efficacy (CDMSE). It also provides a framework and common vocabulary for which type of business curriculum provides the best career readiness CDMSE advantage.…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Business Administration Education, Self Efficacy, Career Choice
Going, Mary Kay – ProQuest LLC, 2018
To offset economic challenges within schools, there has been a recent increase in foundation funding to school districts. This has created a significant social justice issue in student access and student participation across the state of California. The competing interests of local school communities to shore up inadequate state funding often…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Public Schools, School Districts, Student Participation
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Nerren, Jannah; Sinclair, Christina; Barker, Nan; Reid, Mark; Anderson, Gina – Educational Renaissance, 2017
This paper presents a collection of case stories from five Educator Preparation Programs (EPPs) within colleges of education, four from institutions in Texas and one from California, to present a micro cross-sectional narrative interpretation of what constitutes excellence in educator preparation. The broad framework utilized in this…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Schools of Education, Program Improvement, Teacher Education
Stark, Deborah Roderick; Brown, Deborah; Jerald, Judith – ZERO TO THREE, 2019
A secret sauce for family and community engagement emerged as a result of a technical assistance project that supported Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership grantees in California. Power-sharing, communication, creativity, and continuous recommitment to families were key ingredients of that sauce. When these were present, programs were able to…
Descriptors: Family Involvement, Community Involvement, Early Intervention, Participative Decision Making
Asera, Rose – RP Group, 2019
When people talk about "community college leadership," they typically refer to presidents or other executive leaders, mirroring a common societal perception that leaders are individuals at the top of an organization's hierarchy. However, leading from the middle is not a contradiction in terms. A growing number of community college…
Descriptors: Middle Management, Community Colleges, College Administration, Leadership
Makkonen, Reino; Crane, Eric – WestEd, 2019
For several years, WestEd's Measure to Learn and Improve (MLI) project team has kept California state policy leaders informed about the statewide implementation of the California Academic Standards in English language arts and mathematics, by summarizing and disseminating results from the RAND Corporation's annual American Educator Panel (AEP)…
Descriptors: Data Use, Educational Improvement, Teacher Attitudes, Administrator Attitudes
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Luo, Lili – College & Research Libraries, 2018
This study investigates practitioners' involvement in Evidence-Based Library and Information Practice (EBLIP) at an academic library. Through focus group interviews, the study reveals that most of the evidence-based decisions in academic library practice are considered "Know-what (works)" and serve the "instrumental" purpose,…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Librarians, Librarian Attitudes, Evidence
Peña, Samuel D. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Urban K-12 public schools often face challenges that are not found in schools located in suburban areas. Students in urban schools are often not prepared to attend college and are more likely to drop out of high school. This is often the result of limited resources in urban schools, yet educators are expected to close the achievement gap and…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Charter Schools, Nontraditional Education, School Effectiveness
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Shannon-Baker, Peggy; Porfilio, Brad J.; Plough, Bobbie – Educational Foundations, 2020
The purpose of this study is to examine the school selection process of parents whose children attended an urban school district in Northern California. Like numerous urban school districts across the United States, the district highlighted in this study also encountered students exiting its schools for the past decade. The findings shared in this…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Declining Enrollment, Urban Schools, School Districts
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Washington, Michael L. – Journal of Leadership, Equity, and Research, 2021
Though culturally relevant educational leadership has been practiced for more than 20 years, marginalized students from culturally diverse communities continue to be underserved. Additionally, other educational programs outside of traditional K-12 school environments are far less likely to have educational administrators who have any experience or…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Best Practices, Cultural Differences, Cultural Relevance
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