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Fry, Richard; Parker, Kim – Pew Research Center, 2018
A new Pew Research Center analysis of Census Bureau data finds that the "post-Millennial" generation is already the most racially and ethnically diverse generation, as a bare majority of 6- to 21-year-olds (52%) are non-Hispanic whites. And while most are still pursuing their K-12 education, the oldest post-Millennials are enrolling in…
Descriptors: Age Groups, Generational Differences, Educational Attainment, Student Diversity
Jacobs, Kelly O. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this journal-format dissertation was to investigate the condition of community college policy at the state-level as well as the effects of state-level policies on community college institutions and students. Three separate studies were conducted in this dissertation. Study 1 entailed a systematic literature review centered on…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Policy, State Policy, Politics
Knepfle, Chuck – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of the following paper is to utilize multinomial regression to study the effect of various demographic and family characteristic variables on both the parental expectations of future postsecondary degree attainment and the parental estimates of college costs. I also explore the effect of college cost estimates as a mediating factor on…
Descriptors: Regression (Statistics), Parent Attitudes, Knowledge Level, Tuition
Malkus, Nat – American Enterprise Institute, 2018
Education reform in recent decades has focused on raising standards, pushing more students to reach them, and measuring the performance of all students. While test-score growth has lagged recently, upward progress on graduation rates has not, and record graduation rates have been offered as proof of progress. However, the fact that rising…
Descriptors: Repetition, Required Courses, High School Students, High Schools
Henderson, Jamila – John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities, 2018
This brief provides a demographic snapshot of enrollment in the Continuation High Schools and district-operated Community Day Schools ("alternative schools") for youth over the age of 16 in the following Unified School Districts: (1) Long Beach; (2) Los Angeles; (3) Fresno; (4) Oakland; and (5) San Francisco. Unless otherwise noted,…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, Urban Schools, High School Students, At Risk Students
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Çelikler, Dilek; Harman, Gonca – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
The aim of this study was to determine the effect of the SCAMPER technique in raising awareness among science students regarding the collection and utilization of solid waste. The participants included a total of 65 third-year students. According to the study results, the science students described schools and visual media as their main source of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Sanitation, Student Characteristics
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McIntosh, Kent; Kim, Jerin; Mercer, Sterett H.; Strickland-Cohen, M. Kathleen; Horner, Robert H. – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2015
Practice sustainability is important to ensure that students have continued access to evidence-based practices. In this study, respondents from a national sample of 860 schools at varying stages of implementing School-Wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (SWPBIS) were administered a research-validated measure of factors predicting…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Behavior Modification, Intervention, Institutional Characteristics
Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, 2015
In 2013, the Washington Student Achievement Council (WSAC) set a 10 year plan for improving the educational attainment of Washington residents. The Roadmap included two educational attainment goals for 2023: (1) All adults in Washington, ages 25-44, will have a high school diploma or equivalent; and (2) At least 70 percent of Washington adults,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Technical Institutes, Educational Attainment, Educational Objectives
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Candipan, Jennifer – Sociology of Education, 2020
School choice expansion in recent decades has weakened the strong link between neighborhoods and schools created under a strict residence-based school assignment system, decoupling residential and school enrollment decisions for some families. Recent work suggests that the neighborhood-school link is weakening the most in neighborhoods…
Descriptors: School Choice, Neighborhoods, Social Class, Disadvantaged
Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, 2023
Our 2022-23 Fordham Sponsorship Annual Report shares our work during the last school year, overseeing thirteen schools that served approximately 6,000 students in Dayton, Columbus, Cincinnati and Portsmouth, Ohio. We value this opportunity to keep stakeholders and the public informed about our efforts, provide information on each of the schools we…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Institutional Mission, Institutional Evaluation, Charter Schools
Hora, Matthew T.; Lee, Changhee; Chen, Zi; Hernandez, Anthony – Wisconsin Center for Education Research, 2021
Internships and other forms of work-based learning are increasingly viewed as essential experiences for college students. Proponents point out that internships help students develop transferable skills, apply academic knowledge to authentic situations, develop professional networks, and facilitate students' socialization and entry into the…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Internship Programs, School Closing
Lance, Keith Curry; Kachel, Debra E. – Grantee Submission, 2021
This report was produced by "The School Librarian Investigation: Decline or Evolution?" (SLIDE), a research project funded by a Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services to Antioch University Seattle. It studied the employment status of school librarians in the United States from 2009-10…
Descriptors: Librarians, School Libraries, Equal Education, Minority Group Students
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Males, Mike A.; Brown, Elizabeth A. – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2014
Respondents, in "A Mistaken Account of the Age-Crime Curve: Response to Males and Brown," dispute our finding that virtually all of the discrepancy in violent crime rates between adolescents/emerging adults versus older adults is explained not by young age per se but by higher poverty levels among the young. Our rejoinder argues that…
Descriptors: Crime, Poverty, Age Differences, Socioeconomic Influences
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New, William S.; Merry, Michael S. – Educational Theory, 2014
In this article William New and Michael Merry challenge the notion that diversity serves as a good proxy for educational justice. First, they maintain that the story about how diversity might be accomplished and what it might do for students and society is internally inconsistent. Second, they argue that a disproportionate share of the benefits…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Equal Education, Social Justice, Advantaged
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Riordan, Meg; Klein, Emily J.; Gaynor, Catherine – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2019
This article explores how two urban schools help teachers create equitable spaces for students. We describe the structures and experiences supporting teacher learning and transfer of learning to practice as well as what happens when what is designed for and what is enacted do not align. Findings include that teacher professional learning for…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Transfer of Training, Student Experience, Equal Education
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