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Desimone, Laura M.; Stornaiuolo, Amy; Flores, Nelson; Pak, Katie; Edgerton, Adam; Nichols, T. Philip; Plummer, Emily C.; Porter, Andrew – Grantee Submission, 2019
This study identifies seven major trends in how states and districts are implementing college- and career-ready standards for general education students and for two special populations often the target of education policy--English language learners (ELLs) and students with disabilities (SWDs). We draw on state-representative teacher, principal,…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Career Readiness, College Readiness, Program Implementation
Edgerton, Adam K.; Fuchs, Douglas; Fuchs, Lynn S. – Grantee Submission, 2020
Background/Context: The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA, 2004) requires that all students with disabilities (SWD) receive a free, appropriate public education designed to meet their unique needs to prepare them for post-school education and employment (American Psychological Association, 2018). In the past two decades, momentum…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, College Readiness, Career Readiness, Educational Policy
Zoblotsky, Todd; Gallagher, Brenda; O'Daniel, Roland – Grantee Submission, 2020
The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of Get the Picture?! in improving the overall college/career readiness of 900 students with disabilities in each of the nine participating treatment high schools in nine rural, high poverty Kentucky school districts after four years of implementation. This quasi-experimental study…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, College Readiness, Career Readiness, Students with Disabilities
Edgerton, Adam Kirk; Desimone, Laura M. – Grantee Submission, 2019
Critics of standards-based reform often cite an accountability policy environment that disproportionately affects teachers compared with principals and district officials. We directly examine this disproportionality. In our three study states of Texas, Ohio, and Kentucky, we use survey analysis to understand how policy environments for district…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, Accountability, Educational Policy
Pak, Katie; Desimone, Laura M. – Grantee Submission, 2018
This study examines the implementation of college- and- career- readiness content standards in Kentucky, Ohio, and Texas through the lens of distributed leadership theory, and determines the affordances and challenges of this distributed leadership through the lens of policy attribute theory. Data sources are 66, hour-long interviews of state and…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, Academic Standards, State Standards
Edgerton, Adam K.; Desimone, Laura M. – Grantee Submission, 2018
Using state-representative teacher surveys in three states--Texas, Ohio, and Kentucky--we examine teachers' implementation of college- and career-readiness (CCR) standards. What do teachers report about the specificity, authority, consistency, power, and stability of their standards environment? How does their policy environment predict…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Program Implementation, College Readiness, Career Readiness