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Belfield, Clive – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2020
This paper is the first to investigate the costs of institution-wide reforms at community colleges. Drawing on data from 12 community colleges implementing comprehensive guided pathways reforms, I use the ingredients method to analyze the resources required to implement such reforms and examine their feasibility and affordability, as well as their…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Costs, Educational Change, Change Strategies
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Hansen, C. Bobbi – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2013
In the 21st century, it is more important than ever to include global/international education as an essential component of teacher education programs. This paper showcases one Department of Education's journey to internationalize its teacher credential program. Components of the reform include: 1) shared conversations, 2) goal-setting, 3)…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Schools of Education, Global Education, International Education
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Bettinger, Eric P.; Baker, Rachel B. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2014
College graduation rates often lag behind college attendance rates. One theory as to why students do not complete college is that they lack key information about how to be successful or fail to act on the information that they have. We present evidence from a randomized experiment which tests the effectiveness of individualized student coaching.…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), College Students, Nontraditional Students, Goal Orientation
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Bunch, Michael B. – Language Testing, 2011
Title III of Public Law 107-110 (No Child Left Behind; NCLB) provided for creation of assessments of English language learners (ELLs) and established, through the Enhanced Assessment Grant program, a platform from which four consortia of states developed ELL tests aligned to rigorous statewide content standards. Those four tests (ACCESS for ELLs,…
Descriptors: Test Items, Student Evaluation, Federal Legislation, Formative Evaluation
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1989
The report to Congress on the management of the Federal Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services (OSERS) explains findings grouped into five major areas: (1) goal setting, (2) performance management, (3) human resources management, (4) grants management, and (5) federal/state relationships. Questionnaires concerning the management…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administration, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
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McMillian, Martha; Ivy, William A. – National Academic Advising Association Journal, 1990
Presented in case study form is the advising and orientation plan developed for a National Science Foundation grant to prepare future science and mathematics teachers. Comprehensive recruitment strategies, an orientation course, off-campus retreats and field experiences, and academic advising and career counseling elements are described.…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Career Counseling, Counselor Role, Curriculum Development
Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, Olympia. – 1992
This document, which was created by a work group of literacy program coordinators in the state of Washington, is designed for the following purposes: to provide a set of written standards for quality volunteer adult tutoring programs; to list criteria by which Washington's State Board for Community and Technical Colleges can award Volunteer Tutor…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Adult Students