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Bethany Lewis; Daniel Rossman; Rafael Pasillas; Rebecca Klein-Collins – Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, 2024
The Latino and Adult Student Success (LASS) Academy is a multi-year initiative administered by CAEL (the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning) focused on supporting Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) in their efforts to improve outcomes for adult and Latino adult learners. In its first phase, from 2018 through 2021, the LASS Academy…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Adult Students, Universities, Technical Assistance
Edmunds, Julie; Lewis, Karla; Hutchins, Bryan; Klopfenstein, Kristin – SERVE Center at University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2018
As originally conceptualized, Early Colleges were small schools focused purposefully on college readiness for all students. Frequently located on college campuses, Early Colleges targeted students who might face challenges in postsecondary education, including students who were the first in their family to go to college, economically disadvantaged…
Descriptors: Small Schools, High Schools, College Readiness, College Preparation
Scott, George A. – US Government Accountability Office, 2012
The School Improvement Grant (SIG) program funds reforms in low performing schools. Congress provided $3.5 billion for SIG in fiscal year 2009, and a total of about $1.6 billion was appropriated in fiscal years 2010-2012. SIG requirements changed significantly in 2010. Many schools receiving SIG funds must now use the funding for specific…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Grants, Federal Programs, Program Implementation
Ausburn, Jerry Paul – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This descriptive study of the twenty regional Education Service Centers in Texas is an exploratory analysis of programs and services that promote school improvement. Data collected from each service center website enabled the researcher to determine which programs and services are available to school districts and also allowed the researcher to…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Academic Achievement, School Districts, Educational Change
O'Donoghue, Rosalie; Ragland, Mary – 1998
This paper reports preliminary results of two models of school reform initiated in Texas during the summer of 1997. The Texas Accelerated Schools Model began with an intense 5-day training of school teams from schools that had completed a "buy-in" process, along with their external coach, The Schoolwide Planning Summer Institutes began…
Descriptors: Administrators, Cooperation, Educational Change, Educational Planning
US Department of Education, 2003
Volume II contains six appendices to Volume I, including short summaries of the 18 schools that were studied. Appendices included in this report are: (1) Evaluation Methodology; (2) Promising Reform Strategies; (3) Descriptions of the Research-Based Methods or Strategies Being Used; (4) Short Summaries of 18 Comprehensive School Reform…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Demonstration Programs, Government School Relationship, School Districts
Yin, Robert; Kim, Dawn – US Department of Education, 2003
Comprehensive school reform calls for a "whole-school" and coordinated approach to improve schools. The strategy differs from piecemeal and fragmented efforts that also in the past have seemed only to lead to short-lived changes. To stimulate whole-school reform across the country, Congress appropriated funds in FY1998 for the U.S.…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Demonstration Programs, Program Implementation, Program Effectiveness