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Penney, Jeffrey – Education Finance and Policy, 2017
Previous research has found that students who are of the same race as their teacher tend to perform better academically. This paper examines the possibility that both dosage and timing matter for these racial complementarities. Using a model of education production that explicitly accounts for past observable inputs, a conditional…
Descriptors: Racial Factors, Academic Achievement, Student Characteristics, Teacher Characteristics
Center for MH in Schools and Student/Learning Supports at UCLA, 2019
The federal "Every Student Succeeds Act" (ESSA) has stimulated states to revisit school improvement. Previously, the Center analyzed ESSA and the related consolidated state plans using the lens of how the federal legislation and state plans address barriers to learning and teaching and re-engage disconnected students. Such analyses…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Educational Improvement
Tennessee Board of Regents - The College System of Tennessee, 2021
Over the last decade, community colleges in Tennessee have reimagined remediation. More than half of first-time students at Tennessee community colleges require remediation upon enrolling. Colleges provide these students with "learning support" in key gateway courses. To meet the needs of each student, Tennessee community colleges have…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Academic Achievement, Community College Students, Remedial Instruction
Tennessee Board of Regents - The College System of Tennessee, 2021
The closure of equity gaps is a foundational component of the work of Tennessee community colleges. According to the Tennessee Board of Regents' (TBR) equity policy, this commitment means "ensuring that each student has access to a high-quality education and that each student receives what they need to be successful through the intentional…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Academic Achievement, Community College Students, Remedial Instruction
Osborne, Kimberly – ProQuest LLC, 2016
With the cost of intervening being less costly prior to school entry, one strategy being used to decrease the achievement gap is to provide access to quality preschool education for economically disadvantaged children prior to kindergarten entry (Bailet, et al., 2011; Lee, Zhai, Brooks-Gunn, & Han, 2014). The purpose of this study was to…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Kindergarten
Farran, Dale C. – Center on Children and Families at Brookings, 2016
In December 2014, then Secretary of Education Arnie Duncan announced that $226 million had been awarded to 18 states under the Preschool Development Grants (PDG) program. Duncan said that expanding access to high quality preschool programs was critically important, and that the states receiving funding would serve as a model for others. The goal…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Federal Aid, Educational Development, Grants
Suzanne Claiborne Bryant – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of this study was to determine if there was a difference between a student's reading/language arts TCAP scale score and his or her lunch status for students in grades three, four, and five within two school systems in Tennessee. The population consisted of 2,442 students who were in grades three, four, and five during the 2014-2015…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Lunch Programs, Economically Disadvantaged, Achievement Tests
Meehan, Kasey; Ballerini, Victoria; Hagood, Shanell – Research for Action, 2020
To support state efforts to close postsecondary attainment equity gaps for students of color, Research for Action (RFA) developed a framework that describes three drivers behind efforts to place racial equity at the center of postsecondary policymaking and practice: awareness, inclusion, and integration. The framework is adapted from Equity in the…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Equal Education, Minority Group Students, Racial Bias
Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd), 2020
To innovate for the future and improve equity, while also protecting foundational and proven principles that support high-quality education, ExcelinEd is committing to 5 goals over 5 years to impact 5 million students. Those goals hold the key to impactful and far-reaching changes in education, with the power to transform schools, students' lives,…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Access to Computers, Disadvantaged, Achievement Gap
Malatras, Jim – Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, 2018
There is a widening college access gap in the United States. The ever-rising cost of higher education, coupled with diminished government financial support and growing income inequality, have put college out of reach for many at a critical juncture when postsecondary education is essential for enhancing career prospects. The situation has been…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Access to Education, Educational Innovation, State Programs
Complete College America, 2019
Far too often, today's college students find themselves wandering through their academic experiences, choosing from a dizzying array of majors, courses, and out-of-classroom learning experiences. And while this smorgasbord of options is often portrayed as beneficial to the student experience, more than a decade of research suggests that too many…
Descriptors: Career Exploration, Educational Planning, Outcomes of Education, Career Choice
Baumann, Paul; Brennan, Jan – Education Commission of the States, 2017
The civic education policy framework and gap analysis tool are intended to guide state leaders as they address the complexities of preparing students for college, career and civic life. They allow for adaptation to state- and site-specific circumstances and may be adopted in whole or in piecemeal fashion, according to states' individual…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Civics, College Readiness, Career Readiness
Durrance, Samantha – Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2018
Dyslexia is a neurologically-based, lifelong condition that affects a person's ability to process language, which in turn can make reading and writing more difficult. Between 10 and 20 percent of all people are dyslexic. Providing appropriate reading instruction and intervention for young children by second grade could reduce the percentage of…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Educational Policy, State Policy, Reading Difficulties
Richard, Alan – Public School Forum of North Carolina, 2018
In 2017, the U.S. Department of Labor reported a record-high 6.2 million job openings. Yet many employers report they cannot find the well-prepared candidates they need in the South and across the country. The problem is students' lack of preparation for college and career training. Also in 2017, the ACT college admissions test examined the…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Trend Analysis, Geographic Regions, Educational Improvement
Denley, Tristan – Research & Practice in Assessment, 2014
This article explores the challenges that students face in navigating the curricular structure of post-secondary degree programs, and how predictive analytics and choice architecture can play a role. It examines Degree Compass, a course recommendation system that successfully pairs current students with the courses that best fit their talents and…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Low Income Groups, Minority Group Students, Data Collection