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Aaron Bass – ProQuest LLC, 2023
African American students are under-enrolled in gifted and honors programs due to external and internal factors, which are explained in this Executive Leadership Portfolio (ELP). To address this problem, I have studied the APEX program, a predominantly African American honors program based at East Side Charter School in Wilmington, Delaware, and…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Gifted Education, African American Students, Enrollment Rate
Allender, Sara; Estacion, Angela; Nabors, Amanda – Mid-Atlantic Comprehensive Center at WestEd, 2017
In 2007, the U.S. Department of Education commissioned WestEd to develop a guide on using quality authorizing to promote high-quality charter schools. At the time, notions about how authorizers could contribute to the existence of such schools were in their infancy, and the publication, which profiles the oversight practices of eight selected…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Equal Education, Access to Education, Educational Quality
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Archbald, Doug; Hurwitz, Andrew; Hurwitz, Felicia – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2017
In 1975, a court-ordered busing program was launched to desegregate the schools of New Castle County, Delaware. It was by many accounts one of the most significant and successful desegregation programs in the nation (Armor & Rossell, 2002; Orfield, 2014; Raffel, 1980). In 1995, the districts of the county were declared "unitary" and…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Choice, Parent Participation, School Segregation
Smith, Nelson – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2015
In "Redefining the School District in America," Nelson Smith reexamines existing recovery school districts (RSDs)--entities in Louisiana, Tennessee, and Michigan charged with running and turning around their state's worst schools--and assembles the most comprehensive catalog of similar initiatives underway and under consideration…
Descriptors: School Districts, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Change, School Turnaround
DiPerna, Paul – Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, 2014
The "Delaware K-12 & School Choice Survey" project, commissioned by the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice and conducted by Braun Research, Inc. (BRI), measures Delaware registered voters' familiarity and views on a range of K-12 education topics and school choice reforms. The author and his colleagues report response levels…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, School Choice, State Surveys, Telephone Surveys
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Glenn, William J. – Urban Education, 2011
This study analyzes the increase in school segregation in Delaware from a quantitative perspective. The article tests the hypothesis that the declaration of unitary status that released the Wilmington area school districts from their desegregation order caused the increase in segregation. The research reveals that the declaration of unitary status…
Descriptors: School Desegregation, School Segregation, Statistical Analysis, School Resegregation