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Booker, Laura; Conaway, Carrie; Schwartz, Nate – William T. Grant Foundation, 2019
When well executed, research-practice partnerships (RPPs) can be powerful mechanisms for producing relevant and useful knowledge and facilitating its integration into policy and practice to improve youth outcomes. But without taking intentional steps to avoid common hurdles, it's likely that many partnerships will fail to fulfill this potential.…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Partnerships in Education, Failure, Barriers
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Clark, Charlotte H.; Wilson, Benjamin P. – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2017
International partnerships between universities, facilitated by online pedagogies, have great potential to bring together students and teachers from widely differing backgrounds, cultures and locations to combine global perspectives and local relevance in the widely interdisciplinary subject area of geography. However, collaboration between…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Institutional Cooperation, Foreign Countries, Barriers
Equity Assistance Center Region II, Intercultural Development Research Association, 2018
For the past two decades, efforts to desegregate schools have largely failed (Orfield & Frankenberg, 2014). Communities across America continue to re-segregate across racial, ethnic, and class lines. Today, even many desegregated schools fail to provide an integrated schooling experience in the classrooms and in other programs and activities.…
Descriptors: School Segregation, Ethnicity, Social Class, Equal Education
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Frana, Philip L.; Rice, Stacy – Honors in Practice, 2017
James Madison University (JMU) and Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) teamed up in April 2014 to build a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between their respective four-year and two-year honors programs. This MOU is the basis for the continued work between these two institutions to collaborate and find research to assist other interested…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Honors Curriculum, College Transfer Students, Transfer Policy
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Ullman, Ellen – Community College Journal, 2011
Community colleges have always been good stepping stones to four-year colleges. But despite a number of programs that promise admission to four-year schools upon completion of a two-year associate program, many transfer students fail to meet the standards for a baccalaureate degree. A National Center for Education Statistics report found that of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Transfer Students, College Transfer Students, Transfer Policy
Friedman, Lynn – Online Submission, 2005
Effective faculty professional development programs in independent schools can lead to a collegial, intellectually stimulating school culture. These programs can inspire exciting partnerships. Importantly, there's a "trickle down effect"; energized faculty lead to energized students. Yet, many independent schools lack faculty…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Private Schools, Barriers, Program Implementation