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Direct linkYongmei Ni; Charisse A. Gulosino; Andrea K. Rorrer; Bill Altermatt – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2024
High school graduation is a meaningful indicator of student achievement and a stronger predictor of long-term quality of life outcomes compared to student test scores. The existing body of research has been limited on whether charter attendance improves high school graduation and whether charter attendance helps narrow the graduation gap among…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, High School Students, Graduation Rate, Longitudinal Studies
Download full textGunther, Jeffrey – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2019
How working conditions, personal characteristics, and school factors influence teacher recruitment and retention is an oft-studied topic in the field of education finance and policy. Through decades of research, it has become increasingly clear that teachers respond to a set of monetary and non-monetary factors when making decisions in the teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Conditions, Teacher Characteristics, Teacher Recruitment
Garcia, Eugene E.; Lawton, Kerry; Diniz De Figueriedo, Eduardo H. – Teachers College Record, 2012
Background: The state of Arizona has recently mandated the Structured English Immersion Model (SEI) in the state's public schools, and as a result the local flexibility that existed regarding the choice of program models for ELLs has ended. In the school year 2008-09, these regulations were made even more restrictive after the implementation of…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Second Language Learning, Limited English Speaking, English Language Learners
Dole, Janice A.; Hosp, John L.; Nelson, Kristin L.; Hosp, Michelle K. – Journal of Literacy Research, 2010
This article provides a summary of the five years of implementation of the first cohort of schools participating in Utah's Reading First Initiative. Fifteen schools across six districts comprised this cohort. Performance is compared to the performance of a cohort of matched comparison schools as well as the average state performance on the Utah…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Criterion Referenced Tests, Reading Programs, Program Effectiveness
Shumway, Larry – Utah State Office of Education, 2010
Optional Extended-Day Kindergarten benefits students above and beyond non-Optional Extended-Day kindergarten. While OEK students began the 2009-10 school year with significantly lower scores than non-OEK students, by the end of the year OEK students had closed this achievement gap and scored similarly to non-OEK students. In some cases OEK…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, School Schedules, At Risk Students, Kindergarten
Bateman, Blair E.; Wilkinson, Sara L. – Foreign Language Annals, 2010
Although much attention has been given in recent literature to the teaching of Spanish as a heritage language (HL), few studies have been published on specific Spanish HL programs, especially in states such as Utah that have only recently seen a large increase in the number of heritage students of Spanish. This study reports the results of a…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Spanish Speaking, Teaching Methods, Teacher Surveys
