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Augustine, Catherine H.; Engberg, John; Grimm, Geoffrey E.; Lee, Emma; Wang, Elaine Lin; Christianson, Karen; Joseph, Andrea A. – RAND Corporation, 2018
Across the country, school districts, their stakeholders, and policymakers have become increasingly concerned about suspensions, particularly about suspending students from elementary school and disproportionately suspending ethnic/racial minority students. Suspended students are less likely to graduate, possibly because they miss the…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Urban Schools, Suspension, Program Effectiveness
Shriner, James G.; Carty, Susan J.; Rose, Chad A.; Shogren, Karrie A.; Kim, Myungjin; Trach, John S. – Grantee Submission, 2013
This study explored the effects of a web-based decision support system ("Tutorial") for writing standards-based Individualized Education Programs (IEPs). A total of 35 teachers and 154 students participated across two academic years. Participants were assigned to one of three intervention groups based on level of "Tutorial"…
Descriptors: Individualized Education Programs, Web Based Instruction, Intervention, Comparative Analysis
Decker, Paul T.; Mayer, Daniel P.; Glazerman, Steven – Institute for Research on Poverty, 2004
Teach For America (TFA) was founded in 1989 to address the educational inequities facing children in low-income communities across the United States by expanding the pool of teacher candidates available to the schools those children attend. TFA recruits seniors and recent graduates from colleges around the country, people who are willing to…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Teacher Education, Low Income Groups, Equal Education