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National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2013
In winter of 2013, the Rhode Island League of Charter Schools, the Colorado League of Charter Schools, and the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools worked to collect evidence that would accurately portray both the adequacy of charter school facilities and the average amount of operating funds spent by charter schools on facilities.…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Public Schools, Educational Facilities, Geographic Location
National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2013
In the spring of 2012, the Massachusetts Charter Public School Association, the Colorado League of Charter Schools, and the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools worked to collect data that would reveal and accurately portray the adequacy of charter school facilities and the average spending for facilities out of charter schools' operating…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Public Schools, Educational Facilities, Geographic Location
Wages, Michele M. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study compares the academic achievement of 288 Hispanic students enrolled in the content-based English as a second language program and the late exit transitional bilingual program in an urban elementary school in Texas. The goal was to determine if the two programs had differing effects on Hispanic student achievement in reading. The sample…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Bilingual Education Programs, Reading Achievement, Elementary School Students
Spalding, Audrey – Mackinac Center for Public Policy, 2013
The Michigan Context and Performance Report Card measures school performance by adjusting standardized test scores to account for student background. Comparing schools using unadjusted test scores ignores the significant relationship between academic performance and student socioeconomic background--a dynamic outside a school's control. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Regression (Statistics), Achievement Rating, Comparative Analysis
López, Francesca; Scanlan, Martin; Gorman, Brenda K. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2015
This study investigated the degree to which the quality of teachers' language modeling contributed to reading achievement for 995 students, both English language learners and native English speakers, across developmental bilingual, dual language, and monolingual English classrooms. Covariates included prior reading achievement, gender, eligibility…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Native Speakers, Language Usage, Teacher Student Relationship
Burke, Matthew R.; Davis, Elisabeth; Stephan, Jennifer L. – Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest, 2015
This study examined (1) average distances traveled to attend college, (2) presumptive college eligibility, (3) differences between two-year and four-year college enrollment, (4) differences in enrollment related to differences in colleges' selectivity, and (5) degree of "undermatching" (i.e., enrolling in a college less selective than…
Descriptors: College Attendance, Enrollment Trends, Rural Areas, High School Graduates
Plotts, Timothy; Gutmore, Daniel – AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, 2014
The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine the relationship between the length of superintendent tenure, longevity, and continuity relative to student achievement as evidenced by the 2008-2009 Grade 3 New Jersey Assessment of Skills and Knowledge (NJ ASK) in Language Arts. The researcher focused on New Jersey school districts in the…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Academic Achievement, Tenure, Administrator Effectiveness
Spalding, Audrey – Mackinac Center for Public Policy, 2014
The 2014 Michigan Public High School Context and Performance Report Card is the Mackinac Center's second effort to measure high school performance. The first high school assessment was published in 2012, followed by the Center's 2013 elementary and middle school report card, which used a similar methodology to evaluate school performance. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Rating, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Testing
Guam Department of Education, 2012
Guam Department of Education (GDOE) is a single unified school district consisting of grades Kindergarten through 12. Its 26 Elementary Schools, 8 Middle Schools, 5 High Schools, and an alternative school serve over 31,000 students, and is managed by the 11-member Guam Education Board (GEB). Despite the operational and financial challenges the…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education, Graduation Rate, Dropout Rate
Henkel, Tara – Online Submission, 2010
This paper explores the standard traditional summer vacation model; this includes the accompanying food insecurity, loss of nutrition and the lost knowledge that must be re-taught at the beginning of each new academic year. It compares the number of academic days attended in various Industrialized Nations compared to the United States. Also,…
Descriptors: Vacations, School Schedules, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries
Hinrichs, Peter – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2010
This paper estimates the effects of participating in the National School Lunch Program in the middle of the 20th century on adult health outcomes and educational attainment. I utilize an instrumental variables strategy that exploits a change in the formula used by the federal government to allocate funding to the states. Identification is achieved…
Descriptors: Lunch Programs, Student Participation, Context Effect, Outcomes of Education
Johns, Stephanie – District Administration, 2010
Serving meals and snacks at school is fraught with politics and pitfalls. While the battle rages in school cafeterias over menu choices, beverage sales, vending foods, and outright bans on what students can buy or even bring to school, there is some good news. More school districts are reducing the number of fried foods, increasing the levels of…
Descriptors: Obesity, Intervention, Lunch Programs, Nutrition
Eacho, Thomas Christopher – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The primary purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between school climate and student outcome variables. The secondary purpose was to examine the relationship between the use of Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) and the same student outcome variables. Variables depicting student perceptions of school climate,…
Descriptors: Violence, Educational Environment, Correlation, Outcomes of Education
Gibbs, Diane J. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study inquires into support services in schools and their relationship to school effectiveness by using data from the National Center for Education Statistics 2007-2008 School and Staffing Survey (SASS). Students' ability to learn is impacted by their physical and mental health. It is more difficult to measure the influence of nonacademic…
Descriptors: Public Schools, School Effectiveness, School Surveys, Ancillary School Services
Fiese, Barbara H.; Gundersen, Craig; Koester, Brenda; Washington, LaTesha – Society for Research in Child Development, 2011
In 2009, 14.7% of households were food insecure at some time during the year. In other words, members of those households did not have access at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life. This is arguably the most serious nutrition-related public health problem facing the U.S. today. The serious developmental consequences of food…
Descriptors: Food, Hunger, Security (Psychology), Children