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Edmunds, Julie; Unlu, Fatih; Phillips, Brian; Hutchins, Bryan; Mulhern, Christine – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2022
Recent policy efforts have attempted to increase the number of dual enrollment courses offered within Career and Technical Education pathways and there is evidence to suggest that this practice is widespread. However, there is very little research on student participation in CTE dual enrollment and on its impacts. This study examines participation…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, Vocational Education, Student Participation, Grade 11
Flaherty, Mary Grace; Miller, David – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2016
Rural residents are at a disadvantage with regard to health status and access to health promotion activities. In many rural communities, public libraries offer support through health information provision; there are also opportunities for engagement in broader community health efforts. In a collaborative effort between an academic researcher and a…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Rural Areas, Community Change, Change Agents
Scott, Johnny – ProQuest LLC, 2016
When examined more thoroughly, the complexities created by the discrepancies between admission and graduation of African American students point to the impact of their psychological orientation to community college. It simultaneously highlights the degree of their mainstream orientation experience and its impact on their perceptions of…
Descriptors: Student Adjustment, Organizational Climate, African American Community, College Students
Stilwell, Lauri Houck – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Adult Education (AE) in the North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS) is undergoing changes in the twenty first century in response to legislation passed, namely the Workforce Innovation Opportunity Act (WIOA), beginning in 2014. Conceptualized instruction that targets job interests, a goal of employment or enrollment into a postsecondary…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Colleges, Adult Educators, Teacher Qualifications
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Bowling, Jessamyn; Hopper, Lorenzo N.; Catu-Backhaus, Zoe; Williams, Cody; Butler, Karen; Yount, Leigh – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2021
The sexual behaviour of US youth places them at risk of negative outcomes such as sexually transmitted infections and unintended pregnancy. The US Centres for Disease Control recommend a positive and respectful approach to sexuality and relationships to improve these outcomes. Yet, sexuality education across the country, especially in the US…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Barriers, Peer Teaching, Higher Education
Flowers, Christopher – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Competency-based education (CBE) has gained popularity over the course of the past several years, and the North Carolina Community College System is now working to develop its first CBE degree path. Though a number of institutions have implemented CBE on the national scale, only minimal research has been conducted regarding faculty and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Administrator Attitudes
Coalition for Community Schools, 2021
The Coalition for Community Schools (Coalition), as an alliance of national, state and local partners that advocate for community schools, wanted to provide support and a space for community school leaders to share their challenges and successes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Beginning March 17, 2020 through the present, the Coalition conducted…
Descriptors: Community Schools, COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Change
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McNeal, Karen S.; Hammerman, James K. L.; Christiansen, Jonathan A.; Carroll, F. Julian – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2014
Climate change education in the southeastern United States can be challenging. Due to economic factors, as well as the conservative political and faith perspectives typical of the region, high proportions (40%) of the population are not engaged, not convinced, or doubt Earth's climate is changing or that climate change has anthropogenic causes.…
Descriptors: Climate, Environmental Education, Geographic Regions, Community Action
Lynn, Randy; Glynn, Jennifer – Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, 2019
Since 2012, the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation has supported educational enrichment in rural areas by awarding over $3.3 million in grants to six outstanding organizations operating in Iowa, Indiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. In this report, the authors combine the experiences of these organizations with findings from the…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Rural Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrichment Activities
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Pantzer, Joy; Dorwart, Catherine E.; Woodson-Smith, Andrea – Physical Educator, 2018
This study aimed to measure perceived psychosocial outcomes of middle school intramural participants in psychological development, social development, and school connectedness and to identify differences between gender and grade level. One hundred four middle school students were surveyed via a modified version of the Social Outcomes…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Athletes, Intramural Athletics, Interpersonal Relationship
Johnson, Katherine Ratterree – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Community colleges across the United States are adopting multiple measures policies that place students into college-level or developmental coursework based on more than one indicator of student ability. Historically, community colleges relied on high-stakes tests for student placement but recent studies have exposed these as unreliable indicators…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Student Placement, School Policy, Accuracy
Advance CTE: State Leaders Connecting Learning to Work, 2018
With the majority of "good jobs" that pay a family-sustaining wage requiring at least some college education -- such as a technical certificate, associate degree, bachelor's degree or another credential of value -- ensuring the existence of high-quality postsecondary CTE [Career Technical Education] programs and programs of study is more…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Educational Quality, Postsecondary Education, Program Validation
Maddox, Timothy Derek – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The problem to be addressed by this study was the lack of student retention on the part of community college students, how that was perceived by faculty, staff, and students, and how retention could potentially be impacted by student participation in fine arts courses and activities. The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine fine arts…
Descriptors: Fine Arts, Art Education, School Holding Power, Two Year College Students
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Spears Johnson, Chaya R.; Kraemer Diaz, Anne E.; Arcury, Thomas A. – Health Education & Behavior, 2017
Community-based participatory research (CBPR) seeks to conduct relevant, sustainable research that is tailored to the needs of the communities with which it is engaged through equitable collaboration between community representatives and professional researchers. Like other participatory approaches to research and planning, CBPR has been…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Community Involvement, Research Projects, Qualitative Research
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Virtue, Emily E.; Maddox, Gayle; Pfaff, Ken – Learning Communities: Research & Practice, 2019
A majority of the research on the impact of learning communities has focused on the positive outcomes for students in their first year of study (Andrade, 2007; Goldman, 2012; Laverick, 2018; Wathington, Pretlow, & Mitchell, 2010). Less is known about the impact of learning community involvement as students complete their enrollment and persist…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Student Attitudes, College Seniors, Peer Relationship
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