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Chandra B. Floyd; Kelly Margot; Sarah Miller – Roeper Review, 2024
This narrative inquiry highlights the first year of a 5-year Jacob K. Javits grant. In it, the authors detail their experiences writing and receiving the grant and beginning the equity-focused work of helping develop and expand gifted education in Michigan. Michigan currently has no gifted education legislation or funding, so this Javits team…
Descriptors: Gifted, Grants, Equal Education, School Expansion
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Julie Fitz; Julie Woods; Naomi Duran; Jennifer McCombs – Learning Policy Institute, 2025
Student participation in summer programming can be an effective way to address students' academic and developmental needs. When well implemented and well attended, summer enrichment programs, academic programs, and employment programs have demonstrated positive outcomes for youth in areas related to program content, including academic achievement…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Educational Opportunities, Educational Quality, Regional Characteristics
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Julie Fitz; Julie Woods; Naomi Duran; Jennifer McCombs – Learning Policy Institute, 2025
As federal funding for summer learning as a pandemic recovery strategy phases out, state governments face decisions about their future role in supporting students' access to quality summer learning opportunities. This brief is based on the full report, "How States Are Expanding Quality Summer Learning Opportunities," and summarizes…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Educational Opportunities, Educational Quality, Regional Characteristics
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Ilana M. Umansky; Nami Shin; Karen D. Thompson; Janette D. Avelar; Jaclyn Bovee – Bilingual Research Journal, 2024
The "Lau v. Nichols" Supreme Court case specifies two core responsibilities of schools -- and rights for students -- with regard to students classified as English learners (ELs): 1) opportunities to learn English; and 2) equitable access to grade-level content. Yet 50 years since "Lau's" passage, students' right to content may…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, English Learners, Equal Education, Educational Opportunities
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Gardiner, Wendy; Hinman, Tierney B.; Tondreau, Amy; Degener, Sophie; Dussling, Tess M.; Stevens, Elizabeth Y.; Wilson, Nance S.; White, Kristen – Action in Teacher Education, 2023
Niceness is a socialized disposition, particularly amongst white women, that prioritizes comfort and neutrality while preventing resistance against oppressive systems. Given the demographics of teachers and teacher educators, niceness and whiteness are deeply embedded in programs and institutions. As eight white, female teacher educators, we drew…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Equal Education, Teacher Education, White Teachers
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Mitchell L. Yell; Michael A. Couvillon; Antonis Katsiyannis – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court has heard several cases regarding special education. These cases have resulted in decisions that have addressed issues involving special education programming and procedural issues. On March 21, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous ruling in "Perez v. Sturgis Public Schools." This decision, which was the…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Equal Education, Students with Disabilities
Butler, Hayley – Education Trust-Midwest, 2023
Despite profound benefits of high-quality early childhood education (ECE) that could address and avert educational inequities for children of color and those from low-income backgrounds, ECE in Michigan and across the nation lacks sufficient funding. Students of color and students from low-income backgrounds particularly encounter many barriers to…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Equal Education, Young Children, Access to Education
Kovacich, Katie; Wetzstein, Lia – Jobs for the Future, 2022
The Student Success Center Network (SSCN) Coaching Program expands institutional coaching as a capacity-building strategy for driving state- and institution-level college transformation efforts. Institutional coaches are trusted advisors who help facilitate change conversations, share resources and knowledge, and provide guidance to college…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Academic Support Services, Educational Resources, School Personnel
Asha Yadav – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Insufficient referral and participation in Part C Early Intervention (EI) services are common among children aged birth to 3 years, including those automatically eligible due to diagnosed medical conditions. States have established lists of diagnosed medical conditions to streamline eligibility determination for these children. However, there is…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Equal Education, Federal Legislation, Students with Disabilities
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Boyce, Ayesha S.; Tovey, Tiffany L.S.; Onwuka, Onyinyechukwu; Moller, J.R.; Clark, Tyler; Smith, Aundrea – American Journal of Evaluation, 2023
More evaluators have anchored their work in equity-focused, culturally responsive, and social justice ideals. Although we have a sense of approaches that guide evaluators as to how they should attend to culture, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), we have not yet established an empirical understanding of how evaluators measure DEI. In this…
Descriptors: Definitions, Inclusion, Equal Education, Social Justice
Education Trust-Midwest, 2023
In every classroom across our great state--from Monroe to Manistee and Mt. Pleasant to Marquette--every Michigan student deserves access and opportunity to the educational resources and support to realize a bright future. Yet for too long, Michigan's education system has served as an engine of inequality when it should be providing opportunities…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Pandemics, COVID-19, Educational Quality
Ashley Hirilall; Sarah Daily; Zoelene Hill; Catherine Schaefer; Dayne Ornelas Gonzalez – Child Trends, 2023
Long-standing discriminatory practices and systematic barriers have perpetuated inequitable access to early childhood resources and opportunities for families living in the United States due to race and ethnicity, income, geographic location, primary languages, gender, and other characteristics. To adequately understand whether child care is…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Access to Education, Child Care, State Policy
Krista Kaput; Jennifer O’Neal Schiess – Bellwether, 2024
The federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) entitles students with disabilities to a free appropriate public education. Students with disabilities often require additional support to enable them to achieve academic and functional goals relative to their nondisabled peers. These legally protected supports and services all add up…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Students with Disabilities, Educational Legislation, Equal Education
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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Stephanie Owen – Education Finance and Policy, 2025
The Advanced Placement (AP) program is widely offered in American high schools and has been touted as a way to close racial and socioeconomic gaps in educational outcomes. Using administrative data from Michigan, I exploit variation within high schools across time in AP course offerings to identify the relationship between AP course availability,…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, Equal Education, Socioeconomic Status, Social Differences
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