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The Effect of the Community Eligibility Provision on the Ability of Free and Reduced-Price Meal Data to Identify Disadvantaged Students
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Koedel, Cory; Parsons, Eric – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2021
The Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) is a policy change to the federally administered National School Lunch Program that allows schools serving low-income populations to classify all students as eligible for free meals, regardless of individual circumstances. This has implications for the use of free and reduced-price meal (FRM) data to proxy…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, Eligibility, Lunch Programs, National Programs
Creating Coherence in the Teacher Shortage Debate: What Policy Leaders Should Know and Do
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Behrstock-Sherratt, Ellen – Education Policy Center at American Institutes for Research, 2016
Shortages of teachers and parental disengagement are lamented as the reasons schools are just not what they were in days gone by. The consensus is that teachers are the most important within-school factor affecting student achievement. Yet U.S. student performance lags behind international counterparts, suggesting that there are not enough…
Descriptors: Teacher Shortage, Faculty Mobility, Educational Policy, Educational Research
The Effect of the Community Eligibility Provision on the Ability of Free and Reduced-Price Meal Data to Identify Disadvantaged Students. Working Paper No. 234-0320
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Koedel, Cory; Parsons, Eric – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2020
The Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) is a policy change to the federally-administered National School Lunch Program that allows schools serving low-income populations to classify all students as eligible for free meals, regardless of individual circumstances. This has implications for the use of free and reduced-price meal (FRM) data to proxy…
Descriptors: Eligibility, Low Income Students, Classification, Lunch Programs
Career Education Evaluation in the State of Missouri
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Lady, Robin E.; Wilhelm, Eric – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This doctoral team project focused on the state policies and procedures for evaluation of career education programs in Missouri. The project team worked with the Career Education department at the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to investigate the current evaluation policies used. It was determined that the Career…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Career Education, Career Centers, Guidance Centers
The Learned Report on Teacher Education: A Vision Delayed
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Imig, David; Imig, Scott – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2005
Ninety-five years ago, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching released Bulletin #4, otherwise known as The Flexner Report on Medical Education in the United States and Canada, a report on the education of physicians in the United States and Canada that lead to closure of half the medical schools in the country and determine the…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Public Schools, Educational Research, Educational Policy
Expanding Access to Adult Literacy with Online Distance Education.
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Askov, Eunice N.; Johnston, Jerome; Petty, Leslie I.; Young, Shannon J. – 2003
This monograph examines benefits, challenges, and methods of expanding access to adult literacy with online distance education (ODE). The following are among the topics discussed: (1) reasons for considering ODE (new technologies and delivery systems in education; ODE in higher education, business training, and adult basic education; state-level…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accountability, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy