Education Week's 4th annual Diplomas Count report: Broader Horizons: The Challenge of College Readiness for All Students.
This Center on Children and Families report considers the full potential gains of high-quality preschool programs to government budgets. Embeds estimates of the effects of two model programs in a growth model of the U.S. economy to judge the impact they would have on federal, state and local budgets.
The purpose of this study is to replicate Boote & Beile's work in assessing the quality of dissertation literature reviews in a focused area of education research, specifically Instructional Technology, and to examine the inter-rater reliability of their rubric.
The purpose of the report is to provide context for Congress about the characteristics
of disconnected youth, and the circumstances in which they live. These data may be useful as
Congress considers policies to retain students in high school and to provide them with greater job
training and employment opportunities.
A series of tables from the Census Bureau containing data by characteristics such as age, sex, race, Hispanic origin, marital status, occupation, industry, nativity, citizenship status and period of entry. The tabulations also include historical data on mean earnings by educational attainment, sex, race and Hispanic origin.
High school dropouts face daunting odds of success in a labor market that increasingly rewards education and skills. This report presents very early results from a rigorous, independent evaluation of the National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program, an intensive residential program that aims to “reclaim the lives” of young people ages 16 to 18 who have dropped out of school.
This is the First Look at the results of the 2007–08 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study
(NPSAS:08), the most comprehensive, nationally representative survey of student financing of
postsecondary education in the United States.
Examines: 1.What are the characteristics of students transferring to charter schools? 2.What effect do charter schools have on test-score gains for students who transfer between traditional public schools (TPS) and charter schools? 3.What is the effect of attending a charter high school on the probability of graduating and of entering college? 4.How do charter schools affect test scores of TPSs?
"This brief details 6 out-of-school factors (OSFs) common among the poor that significantly affect the
health and learning opportunities of children...Also discussed is a seventh OSF, extended learning opportunities, such as preschool, after school, and summer school programs that...mitigate some of the harm caused by the first 6 factors.
Discusses "promising models" that "demonstrate how technology, used in concert with what cognitive-scientific research tells us about how people learn, can improve formative assessment and enhance teaching and learning."
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Education Week's 4th annual Diplomas Count report: Broader Horizons: The Challenge of College Readiness for All Students.
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