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Michelle Croft; Titilayo Tinubu Ali; Bonnie O’Keefe – Bellwether, 2023
Many technical, test design, and implementation questions are involved in designing new statewide assessments. These are all critical, shaping often underexamined aspects of testing: student test experience and families' perceptions of testing in this new structure. Although the state outreach to students and families is needed generally, it is…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Educational Assessment, Curriculum Implementation, Parents
Gregory Thornton; Rachael Orr; Julia Michaels; Jim Spain – Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, 2024
This document shares valuable insights from peer mentorship programs at institutions that participated in APLU's Powered by Publics initiative and serves as a comprehensive resource for other institutions aiming to develop or enhance similar initiatives. By showcasing best practices, case examples, and practical recommendations, this report aims…
Descriptors: Universities, Peer Relationship, Peer Teaching, Mentors
Alawsaj, Manal; Berman, Max; Mujaj, Teuta; Rankin, Kayla – Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, 2023
Research has demonstrated the wide-ranging and positive benefits from high-quality publicly-funded prekindergarten education. Yet, access for families with young children remains uneven, with significant gaps across geography, income, race, and ethnicity. Over the last few decades, many states have worked to broaden access to prekindergarten…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, State Policy, Educational Policy, Access to Education
Keri M. Guilbault; Melanie S. Meyer – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2024
In 2012, Florida adopted the Academically Challenging Curriculum to Enhance Learning (ACCEL) statute establishing minimum requirements for local education agencies to provide access to accelerated learning options for eligible K-12 public school students. This study examined Florida public school district acceleration policies for elementary…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary School Curriculum, Acceleration (Education), Equal Education
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Whitney Stone; Olivia Caillouet; Annie Muscato; Colby Silvert; John Diaz – NACTA Journal, 2023
This mixed methods study aimed to explore the perceptions of employees' belongingness, uniqueness, and inclusivity within the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) system. A survey with quantitative and qualitative questions was used for data collection from February to April 2021. Respondents were UF/IFAS…
Descriptors: College Students, Sense of Community, Inclusion, Land Grant Universities
Donna Bauldree Devine – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The number of children living in poverty in the United States rose 14.4% from 2019 to 2020 (U.S. Census Bureau). In Florida, nearly one out of every four children live at or below the poverty threshold Koball and Jaing (2018). The complexities of life for people living in poverty are many. These complexities influence the education of students…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Poverty, Low Income Students, Positive Attitudes
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Cafarella, Brian – Community College Enterprise, 2023
Throughout the 21st century, the discipline of developmental education has come under fire for low success rates and has created a great deal of controversy. This has especially been the case for developmental math. Over the years, there have been many initiatives to improve student success and completion in developmental math. Some have succeeded…
Descriptors: Developmental Programs, Nonmajors, STEM Education, Mathematics Instruction
Jennifer Louise Berne – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study assessed the impact of COVID-19 on secondary teachers' assessment, grading, and reporting practices in south Florida. The study included a review of the literature on the history of traditional versus criterion-based grading and reporting; accountability and equity in grading prior to COVID-19; challenges in implementing alternative…
Descriptors: Grading, COVID-19, Pandemics, Secondary School Teachers
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Fitch, E. Frank; Hulgin, Kathleen M.; Coomer, M. Nickie – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2023
The rapid growth of special needs vouchers has been accompanied by the loss of historic civil rights and protections under the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act (IDEA) and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). We examine three of the largest special needs voucher programs in the United States: those in Florida, Georgia and Ohio.…
Descriptors: Educational Vouchers, Special Needs Students, Deception, Inclusion
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Willis, Arlette Ingram; Smith, Patriann – Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, 2021
This invited article is a precursor to the Racial Justice in Literacy Research Report. It is framed around the key concepts of equity, literacy, race, and their intersections in the field of literacy research. The authors make the case that antiracism is the best antidote to a history of unacknowledged racism in the field and in contemporary…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Racial Bias, Educational Research, Literacy
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Casellas Connors, Ishara – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2022
Public Hispanic serving institutions (HSIs) play a prominent role in educating racially minoritized students, thus making them valuable sites for examining higher education increased attention to state and institution-level diversity policy and plans. Institutional diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) plans, serve as public statements regarding…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Public Colleges, Hispanic American Students, Minority Serving Institutions
Tito S. Sempértegui; Jennifer L. Bebergal; Brittanney J. Adelmann – Learning Assistance Review, 2022
Studies have demonstrated the positive impact of the Learning Assistant (LA) model on student learning across various disciplines, demographics, and course types. In order to investigate the effect of exposure to the LA program on student learning and success in a large Chemistry course, a pilot was launched in one of two sections of General…
Descriptors: Teaching Assistants, Chemistry, Undergraduate Study, Undergraduate Students
Huriya Jabbar; Eupha Jeanne Daramola; Julie A. Marsh; Taylor Enoch-Stevens; Jacob Alonso; Taylor N. Allbright – Grantee Submission, 2022
Purpose: We examine policy influencers' perceptions of the targets of school-choice policy across five states, exploring how constructions varied for White and racially minoritized families, whether policy actors conceived of the "target" of policy as the child or the parent, and how these racialized constructions varied across different…
Descriptors: School Choice, School Policy, State Policy, Racial Attitudes
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Shriberg, David; Nygaard, Malena A.; Carlock, Kane; Wood, Maureen; Brahm, Anna; Flores, Helena; Melfi, Elizabeth P. – School Psychology Review, 2023
Social justice is a term that has grown in prominence in school psychology over the past several years. This increased emphasis on social justice heightens the need for empirical research that speaks to the application of social justice principles to school psychology practice. In this study, nine school psychologists across three states were…
Descriptors: School Psychologists, Social Justice, Attitudes, Experience
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Mokher, Christine G.; Park-Gaghan, Toby J.; Hu, Shouping – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2023
Florida's developmental education reform has benefitted most students directly impacted by the reform and has helped to reduce existing achievement gaps by race/ethnicity, English Language Learner status, and academic preparation in short-term outcomes like college course-taking and credit accumulation. Even though the reform was not specifically…
Descriptors: Remedial Instruction, Educational Change, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap
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