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Fulton, Mary – Education Commission of the States, 2017
Guided pathways are emerging as a strategy to help students complete a credential in a timely manner by encouraging or requiring them to select a program, and develop a degree plan or map, on a specified timeline. At a minimum, institutions may ask students to identify a meta-major, which is a broad area of academic programs with related courses…
Descriptors: Graduation, Strategic Planning, Time to Degree, Majors (Students)
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Suarez, Mario I.; Lai Hing, Ebony; Slattery, Patrick – Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 2018
North Carolina voted into law legislation known as the Privacy Facilities and Security Act, commonly known as HB2 or the anti-transgender "bathroom bill." We use Pinar's (1975a, 1975b, 2012) "currere" methodology as a brief exercise in deconstructing this bathroom bill and others similar to it. In this short piece, we go…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Sexual Identity, Sanitary Facilities, LGBTQ People
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Eckes, Suzanne E.; Mead, Julie; Ulm, Jessica – Peabody Journal of Education, 2016
Some private, religious schools that accept vouchers have been accused of discriminating against certain populations of students through their admissions processes. Discriminating against disfavored groups (e.g., racial minorities, LGBT students, students with disabilities, religious minorities) in voucher programs raises both legal and policy…
Descriptors: Educational Vouchers, Educational Discrimination, Private Schools, Parochial Schools
Yin, Jessica; Partelow, Lisette – Center for American Progress, 2020
Despite the importance of teachers, the preparation programs intended to train them and provide them with the foundational skills they need to grow into high-quality educators vary in format, curriculum offered, quality, and more. Alternative teacher certification programs that are run outside of institutions of higher education (IHE) are an…
Descriptors: Alternative Teacher Certification, Enrollment Trends, Proprietary Schools, Electronic Learning
Reyna, Ryan; Norton, Lauren – Education Commission of the States, 2020
This Policy Brief outlines some of the challenges presented to students -- particularly those who are historically underserved -- who are transitioning from high school to college this fall. It shares the ways in which "near peer" advisors, or recent high school graduates, can help ease the transition and steer students toward success.…
Descriptors: Barriers, High School Students, Postsecondary Education, COVID-19
New Leaders, 2018
In their plans to carry out the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), states universally recognize what New Leaders has long known: "leadership changes everything." In fact, every single state has committed to directing some portion of its federal funding into investments in leadership--from teacher leaders to principals and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Leadership
Healthy Schools Campaign, 2018
The link between health and learning is clear: healthy, active and well-nourished children are more likely to attend school, arrive ready to learn and stay engaged in class. Yet far too many students spend their days in schools that do not offer them adequate clean air and water, nutritious food, physical activity and the support of a school…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Needs Assessment
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Page, Amy Dellinger; Davison, Elizabeth; Dale, Jessica Pittman – Feminist Teacher: A Journal of the Practices, Theories, and Scholarship of Feminist Teaching, 2017
With the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act in 2013, exposés about Title IX investigations (e.g., University of Virginia, Florida State University, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), and the #MeToo campaign, there is renewed media focus on the topic of sexual assault on college campuses and in the wider culture.…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Violence, Sexual Abuse, Civil Rights Legislation
Kashen, Julie; Minoff, Elisa; Coccia, Alex – Center for the Study of Social Policy, 2022
The exclusion of caregivers and other stakeholders from conversations about child care policy design exacerbates inequities in the sector. By design, women, people of color, parents, people without wealth or high incomes, and child care providers are severely underrepresented in positions of power, including the government positions that influence…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Child Care, Stakeholders, COVID-19
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Journal of Education Finance, 2018
On February 24, 2017, all of the authors of the state-of-the-state manuscripts published in the "Journal of Education Finance" met in Cincinnati, Ohio, to participate in a roundtable discussion focused on recent legislative actions in 38 states. A majority of those papers were revised to reflect a final report on legislative actions…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, State Aid
Raketa A. Ouedraogo-Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This mixed method sequential explanatory study provided analysis of North Carolina (NC) school leaders' dispositions in eliminating opportunity gaps, outlined in NC's strategic plan. The study's quantitative phase used descriptive and correlation analysis of eight Likert subscales around four tenets of transformative leadership (Shields, 2011) and…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education, Transformational Leadership, Equal Education
Sutton, Leah – Hunt Institute, 2016
"The Every Student Succeeds Act" (ESSA) was signed into law by President Barack Obama on December 10, 2015. ESSA reauthorizes the "Elementary and Secondary Education Act" (ESEA), which was first enacted as part of President Lyndon B. Johnson's "War on Poverty." Since 1965, ESEA has represented the federal government's…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Academic Standards
Feldman, Rachel Carly – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation examines how teachers respond to state-wide labor reforms. In 2013 and 2014, the state of North Carolina drastically altered compensation for teachers. Policymakers affected labor by attempting to revoke tenure for all teachers (and succeeded in eliminating it for new teachers), discontinuing supplemental pay for advanced…
Descriptors: State Policy, Teaching Conditions, Job Satisfaction, Faculty Mobility
Holly, Neal; Fulton, Mary – Education Commission of the States, 2017
Concerned with low on-time graduation rates, state lawmakers continue to turn to outcomes-based funding (OBF) as one policy approach to support postsecondary degree attainment and workforce goals. Policymakers have also been confronted with constituent complaints about student debt loads, course schedules and academic programs that force students…
Descriptors: State Aid, Funding Formulas, Outcomes of Education, School Holding Power
John B. Holbein; Helen F. Ladd – Grantee Submission, 2017
In this paper we examine how failing to make adequate yearly progress under No Child Left Behind (NCLB), and the accountability pressure that ensues, affects various non-achievement student behaviors. Using administrative data from North Carolina and leveraging a discontinuity in the determination of school failure, we examine the causal impact of…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Accountability, Student Behavior
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