Publication Date
In 2025 | 0 |
Since 2024 | 3 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 26 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 79 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 228 |
Descriptor
Source
Author
Amos, Jason, Ed. | 8 |
Klein, Alyson | 5 |
McNeil, Michele | 5 |
Baum, Sandy | 4 |
Delisle, Jason | 3 |
Farr, Maude | 3 |
Merker, Rachel, Ed. | 3 |
Anderson, Leslie M. | 2 |
Andrea Boyle | 2 |
Aud, Susan L. | 2 |
Butler, Alisha | 2 |
More ▼ |
Publication Type
Education Level
Audience
Policymakers | 30 |
Administrators | 12 |
Parents | 10 |
Practitioners | 9 |
Teachers | 8 |
Researchers | 3 |
Media Staff | 1 |
Students | 1 |
Location
United States | 14 |
California | 7 |
District of Columbia | 6 |
Colorado | 5 |
Massachusetts | 5 |
New York | 5 |
Texas | 5 |
Virginia | 5 |
Arizona | 4 |
Canada | 4 |
Washington | 4 |
More ▼ |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
National Assessment of… | 4 |
General Educational… | 2 |
Early Childhood Longitudinal… | 1 |
Stanford Achievement Tests | 1 |
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Yatsko, Sarah; Lake, Robin; Nelson, Elizabeth Cooley; Bowen, Melissa – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2012
In 2009, the federal government committed over $3 billion nationwide to help states and districts turn around their worst-performing schools. The U.S. Department of Education intended for the School Improvement Grants (SIGs) to spur dramatic change. This report looks at the results of a field study of the first-year implementation of those grants…
Descriptors: Evidence, Academic Achievement, School Districts, Educational Change
Strange, Marty – Rural School and Community Trust, 2011
The Investing in Innovation (i3) program is a U.S. Department of Education competitive grant program supporting innovation in public schools. To encourage projects focusing on rural education in its first round of grants in 2010 the Department offered two bonus points in the scoring system for "projects that would implement innovative practices,…
Descriptors: Innovation, Scoring, Grants, Rural Education
Wellen, Richard; Axelrod, Paul; Desai-Trilokekar, Roopa; Shanahan, Theresa – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2012
This paper examines the pattern of decision-making, lobbying, and influence that led to the landmark series of federal student assistance policies introduced by Jean Chretien's Liberal government in the late 1990s. The package of new initiatives--dubbed the Canada Opportunities Strategy--not only partially reversed an earlier period of fiscal…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Stakeholders, Foreign Countries, Grants
Goldenkoff, Robert – US Government Accountability Office, 2009
Many federal assistance programs are funded by formula grants that have historically relied at least in part on population data from the decennial census and related data to allocate funds. In June 2009, the Census Bureau reported that in fiscal year 2007 the federal government obligated over $446 billion through funding formulas that rely at…
Descriptors: Grants, Federal Programs, Federal Aid, Federal Government
US Government Accountability Office, 2011
U.S. compacts with the freely associated states (FAS)--the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), the Marshall Islands, and Palau--permit FAS citizens to migrate to the United States and its territories (U.S. areas) without regard to visa and labor certification requirements. Thousands of FAS citizens have migrated to U.S. areas (compact…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Migration, Immigrants, Costs
Molony, John – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2011
International learning mobility is a strategic and operational priority for both the federal government and the majority of universities in Australia. Dating back over a decade, successive governments have stressed the public good to be derived from having an increased proportion of students participating in mobility programs. It is seen as…
Descriptors: Program Development, Foreign Countries, Scholarships, Labor Force Development
Zehr, Mary Ann – Education Week, 2010
The author reports on a review of state policies by researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles, which raises questions about the validity of the use of home-language surveys as a step to identify students eligible for special help in learning English. While it's ubiquitous in schools across the country, the practice of educators'…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Validity, Federal Government, Politics of Education
Usher, Alexandra – Center on Education Policy, 2011
This background paper from the Center on Education Policy (CEP) examines the origins, history, and evolution of federal land grants for public schools, as well as their significance as an early example of the federal role in education. It is intended to serve as a more detailed companion to another CEP paper, "Get the Federal Government Out of…
Descriptors: State Schools, Public Schools, Government Role, Federal Government
Baum, Sandy; Payea, Kathleen – College Board Advocacy & Policy Center, 2012
The recent focus on student debt makes reliable data about how much students are borrowing, how borrowing patterns differ among students across different types of institutions and at different levels of enrollment, and about changes over time particularly important. While total student borrowing has grown rapidly over the past decade, the rate of…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Federal Aid, Grants, Income
Education Resource Strategies, 2012
The Federal government has brought the issue of low-performing schools to the forefront of public conversation by committing $3.5 billion over three years to turn around these schools. As of March 2011, over 1200 schools across the country had been awarded School Improvement Grants (SIG). Given the magnitude of this short-term investment and the…
Descriptors: Federal Government, Federal Programs, Grants, Capacity Building
McNeil, Michele; Maxwell, Lesli A. – Education Week, 2010
After 39 applicants went home losers from the first round of the Race to the Top competition, many states regrouped and raised the stakes for round two--changing laws to revamp teacher evaluations, drumming up more support from districts and teachers' unions, and getting more aggressive about turning around low-performing schools. The authors…
Descriptors: Competition, Unions, Educational Change, Teacher Evaluation
Office of the Chief Financial Officer, US Department of Education, 2017
The purpose of the United States Department of Education's (the Department) Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 "Agency Financial Report" (AFR) is to inform Congress, the President, other external stakeholders, and the American people on how the Department used the federal resources entrusted to it to promote student achievement and preparation for…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, State Departments of Education, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
Goldstein, Evan R. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
The Minerva Consortium--named for the Roman goddess of wisdom--was introduced by Robert M. Gates, secretary of defense, in a speech before the Association of American Universities in April. Quoting the late historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., who said after Sputnik's launch, in 1957, that the United States "must return to the acceptance of…
Descriptors: Social Science Research, National Security, Grants, Federal Government
US Department of Education, 2010
This publication provides a nontechnical summary of the U.S. Department of Education's discretionary grants process and the laws and regulations that govern it. This document is intended for individuals and organizations that are interested in applying to the U.S. Department of Education (the Department) for discretionary grants and cooperative…
Descriptors: Grants, Grantsmanship, Federal Government, Federal Programs
Czerwinski, Stanley J. – US Government Accountability Office, 2010
Nonprofits are key partners in delivering federal services yet reportedly often struggle to cover their indirect costs (costs not readily identifiable with particular programs or projects). This raises concerns about fiscal strain on the sector. To provide information on nonprofits' indirect cost reimbursement, especially when funding flows…
Descriptors: Nonprofit Organizations, Grants, Federal Government, State Government