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Malkus, Nat; Christensen, Cody; West, Lexi – American Enterprise Institute, 2020
Since mid-March, millions of schoolchildren have been stuck at home due to school closures brought on by the rapid spread of COVID-19. School districts' initial responses were captured by the first wave of the American Enterprise Institute's (AEI) COVID-19 Education Response Longitudinal Survey (C-ERLS), a nationally representative survey of…
Descriptors: School Districts, School Closing, Access to Education, Distance Education
Malkus, Nat; Christensen, Cody – American Enterprise Institute, 2020
When school buildings first closed in mid-March, few education leaders knew how long such closures would last. Now, that picture is becoming increasingly clear. Nearly all state governments have issued orders or recommendations requiring school buildings to remain closed for the duration of the 2019-20 academic year due to the threat of COVID-19.…
Descriptors: School Districts, School Closing, Access to Education, Distance Education
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Taie, Soheyla; Goldring, Rebecca – National Center for Education Statistics, 2019
The 2017-18 National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS) is a state and nationally representative sample survey of public and private K-12 schools, principals, and teachers in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. NTPS collects data on core topics including teacher and principal preparation, classes taught, school characteristics, and…
Descriptors: Institutional Characteristics, Public Schools, Private Schools, Elementary Schools
Council of Chief State School Officers, 2019
The Council of Chief State School Officers' (CCSSO's) commitment to equity is rooted in the belief that all students--across race, ethnicity, gender, language, disability, sexual orientation, or family background or income--deserve an education that prepares them for success in college, careers, and life. One of the actions that state education…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Federal Aid, Financial Support, Equal Education
Lazarev, Val; Schellinger, Adam; Zacamy, Jenna; Newman, Denis – Empirical Education Inc., 2019
Empirical Education Inc. conducted a quasi-experiment investigating the impact of the Alabama Math, Science, Technology Initiative (AMSTI) training. The study compared classes of fully-trained AMSTI teachers to classes taught by teachers with no AMSTI training within the same schools. The outcome measure was the ACT Aspire in math, science, and…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Mathematics Teachers, Science Teachers, Mathematics Achievement
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Davis, Melinda M.; Spurlock, Margaret; Ramsey, Katrina; Smith, Jamie; Beamer, Beth Ann; Aromaa, Susan; McGinnis, Paul B. – Journal of School Nursing, 2017
Providing flavored milk in school lunches is controversial, with conflicting evidence on its impact on nutritional intake versus added sugar consumption and excess weight gain. Nonindustry-sponsored studies using individual-level analyses are needed. Therefore, we conducted this mixed-methods study of flavored milk removal at a rural primary…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Rural Schools, Elementary Schools, Food Standards
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Michelmore, Katherine; Dynarski, Susan – AERA Open, 2017
Gaps in educational achievement between high- and low-income children are growing. Administrative data sets maintained by states and districts lack information about income but do indicate whether a student is eligible for subsidized school meals. We leverage the longitudinal structure of these data sets to develop a new measure of economic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap, Longitudinal Studies, Outcomes of Education
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Kim, Chong Min; Frank, Kenneth A.; Spillane, James P. – Teachers College Record, 2018
Background/Context: While some commentators view education as a social mobility mechanism, many scholars argue that schools reproduce rather than challenge social inequality. A vast literature on the role of family background and educational stratification identifies various factors that help account for how schools contribute to reproducing…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Students, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Student Relationship
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Salifu, Inusah; Boateng, John Kwame; Kunduzore, Salifu Sandubil – Cogent Education, 2018
This study sought to examine the extent of contribution of school feeding programmes towards the achievement of the Free Compulsory Universal Basic Education (FCUBE) policy in countries. Based on a purposive sampling of a deprived rural community in northern Ghana, the study utilised the concurrent mixed method design relying mainly on documentary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Educational Policy, Access to Education
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Warmbold-Brann, Kristy; Maras, Melissa A.; Splett, Joni W.; Smith-Millman, Marissa; Dinnen, Hannah; Flaspohler, Paul – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2018
The success of universal screening for effective school mental health programs is dependent on the availability of usable measures as well as empirically based recommendations for use. The current study examined the long-term stability of a strengths-based social-emotional screening tool, the Devereux Student Strengths Assessment-Mini…
Descriptors: Mental Health Programs, Screening Tests, Social Development, Emotional Development
Ladd, Helen F.; Clotfelter, Charles T.; Turaeva, Mavzuna – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2018
This paper examines what parents value as they make choices among available charter schools, with primary attention to the racial mix of a school's students. We estimate conditional logit models of the charter school choices made by all parents in North Carolina who switched their child from a traditional public school to a charter school in…
Descriptors: School Choice, Charter Schools, Parent Attitudes, Preferences
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Lopez-Neyman, Stephanie M.; Warren, Cynthia A. – Journal of Child Nutrition & Management, 2016
Participation in school meals is a preventive measure against childhood hunger. Participation in the School Breakfast Program (SBP) continues to lag behind that of the National School Lunch Program. The purpose of this literature review was to investigate the barriers and advantages to student participation in the SBP. Using the adaptable…
Descriptors: Barriers, Lunch Programs, Costs, Nutrition Instruction
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Stephens, Lacy; Shanks, Carmen Byker – Journal of School Health, 2015
Background: School food service professionals are vital to implementing national nutrition standards in school meal programs. Appropriate and effective training for these professionals may be one key to producing healthful meals that students are excited to eat and also meet United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) nutrient guidelines. A…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Lunch Programs, Literature Reviews, Intervention
Carter, Ted – Kansas Association of School Boards, 2015
This document contains headcount enrollment projections for the State of Kansas for the 2015-16 school year through the 2019-20 school year. These projections are based on resident live births in Kansas and the headcount enrollment data for previous school years. Based on the available data related to resident live births by county and previous…
Descriptors: Enrollment Trends, Statistical Data, Instructional Program Divisions, Race
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Arnold, Phoebe – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2017
Full Fact is an independent, non-partisan fact-checking charity. A particular focus is the analysis of factual claims in political debate in the UK; for example, fact-checking claims and counterclaims made during Prime Minister's questions. Facts do not appear in a vacuum as they are often used as key elements in an effort to make a coherent…
Descriptors: Statistics, Literacy, Elections, Political Attitudes
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