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Harmon, Timothy – Postsecondary Value Commission, 2021
The Postsecondary Value Commission, in its exploration of return on investment and value of a higher education, desired to better understand the current state of earnings data for states and institutions so that they could effectively measure and understand post-college employment and earnings. To that end, this brief includes a review of research…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Higher Education, College Graduates, Employment Opportunities
Christopher Redding; Steven M. Carlo – Educational Policy, 2024
We use event history analysis on an aggregate dataset from 1997 to 2018 to understand the state-level antecedents associated with the adoption of test-based grade retention policies. Findings indicate that the educational conditions of a state to be more predictive of retention policy adoption than the political, economic, and geographic measures.…
Descriptors: Grade Repetition, National Competency Tests, Educational History, Student Characteristics
Peace Bransberger – Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, 2023
Nationwide, public schools began to experience a youth population decline prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. After 14 years of successively smaller U.S. birth cohorts, elementary public schools now face gradually declining student counts. The complex convergence of shifting age demographics, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and ongoing…
Descriptors: Pandemics, COVID-19, Educational Policy, Enrollment Trends
Atwell, Matthew N.; Balfanz, Robert; Manspile, Eleanor; Byrnes, Vaughan; Bridgeland, John M. – Civic, 2021
Students and educators have returned to the classroom for the fall of 2021 after the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted in-person learning in schools across the country. Yet, this does not mean the pandemic's effects on education and students are behind everyone, and the pandemic continues to linger across America. The current understanding of the…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, Pandemics, COVID-19, Futures (of Society)
Heuer, Ruth; Stullich, Stephanie – Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, US Department of Education, 2011
This report from the Study of School-Level Expenditures presents findings on how state and local education expenditures at the school level vary within school districts. This study is not examining compliance with the current Title I comparability requirement, nor does it examine the comparability of resources between districts. Rather, it focuses…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Schools, School Districts, Educational Finance, Differences
Perper, Kate; Manlove, Jennifer – Child Trends, 2009
In 2006, the teen birth rate rose for the first time since 1991. Between 2005 and 2006, the birth rate increased 3 percent for teens aged 15-17 and 4 percent for teens aged 18-19. Teenage childbearing has negative consequences both for the mothers involved and for their children. For example, teen mothers and their children experience poorer…
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Adolescents, Early Parenthood, Females
Pajankar, Vishal D.; Khot, Pranali; Khot, P. G. – Educational Research and Reviews, 2010
Education especially school education is one of the very important components of social development. Since independence, education has been visualized in government policies as a precursor to national development as well as to better quality of life. Due to the initiative taken by the states and centre, education system in India has expanded…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Economic Development, Quality of Life, Foreign Countries
George, Catherine C.; Vannest, Kimberly J. – Beyond Behavior, 2009
Questions and concerns exist regarding the exclusion of students with disabilities from statewide assessments, partly because the number of student with disabilities who are included in state assessment varies from state to state and is generally low. This contributes to a belief that accountability for all students may be misunderstood or ill…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Program Effectiveness, Accountability, Decision Making
Bania, Neil; Stone, Joe A. – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2008
This paper offers unique rankings of the extent to which fiscal structures of U.S. states contribute to economic growth. The rankings are novel in two key respects: They are well grounded in established growth theory, in which the effect of taxes depends both on the level of taxes and on the composition of expenditures; and they are derived from…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Social Services, Fiscal Capacity, Economic Factors
Sharma, Anu; Botzet, Andria M.; Sechrist, Rebecca A. J.; Arthur, Nikki; Winters, Ken C. – Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse, 2006
This study reports on norms developed for the Minnesota Institute of Public Health's (1999) Community Readiness Survey. Prevention experts from ten states and the Red Lake Nation sorted data from 50 communities into high and low readiness groups using a Q-sort process. High inter-rater agreement was achieved on communities sorted. Tests of…
Descriptors: State Norms, Community Surveys, Interrater Reliability, Substance Abuse
Mack, Jean Harris; And Others – 1980
The document, nearly half of which consists of appendixes, reports on a national survey conducted by The Council for Exceptional Children to determine the current status of state requirements for special education class sizes and caseloads, and to identify the policy issues for further research. Section 1 relates the overall survey findings on the…
Descriptors: Class Size, Disabilities, Educational Policy, Gifted

Alexander, Nicola A. – Journal of Education Finance, 1997
Between the 1982-83 and 1991-92 school years, state and local education revenues increased 39.1% (after removing price increase effects) and 27.8% on a per-pupil basis. Examines revenue variations among states. The growth of real personal income per pupil is a good measure of how much a state's economy expanded in relation to the growth of demand…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Income, Public Education
Maine State Dept. of Mental Health and Mental Retardation, Augusta. – 1997
This document presents uniformly collected data for the State of Maine and each of its counties on selected known risk factors for alcohol and drug abuse and the prevalence of substance abuse-related problems. A "Read Me First" section presents the state's approach to prevention. Information is provided on risk and protective factors,…
Descriptors: Intermediate Grades, Local Norms, Prevention, Secondary Education
Steven M. Ross; Aaron J. McDonald; Linda Bol – Center for Research in Educational Policy (CREP), 2008
In 2002, Tennessee passed its first Public Charter School legislation. Four schools were successful in gaining approval to begin operating in the 2003-2004 academic year. The second cohort of three charter schools began operation during the 2004-2005 academic year, with the third cohort of five schools starting-up during the 2005-2006 academic…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Choice, Educational Legislation, School Law

Holtz, Robert E. – Journal of Environmental Education, 1996
Describes survey results sent to all state environmental education coordinators designed to reveal a generalized picture of environmental education requirements, guidelines, resource materials, staff, and teacher education requirements in the United States. Includes survey. (MKR)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education, Resource Materials, State Boards of Education