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Schanzenbach, Diane Whitmore; Bauer, Lauren; Mumford, Megan – Hamilton Project, 2016
A quality education that promotes learning among all students is a prerequisite for an economy that increases opportunity, prosperity, and growth. School accountability policies, in which school performance is evaluated based on identified metrics, have developed over the past few decades as a strategy central to assessing and achieving progress…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Educational Policy
Anderson, Patricia M.; Butcher, Kristin F.; Schanzenbach, Diane Whitmore – Education Finance and Policy, 2017
This paper investigates how accountability pressures under No Child Left Behind (NCLB) may have affected students' rate of overweight. Schools facing pressure to improve academic outcomes may reallocate their efforts in ways that have unintended consequences for children's health. To examine the impact of school accountability, we create a unique…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Obesity, Accountability
Schanzenbach, Diane Whitmore – Education Finance and Policy, 2012
Research based on randomized experiments (along with high-quality quasi-experiments) has gained traction in education circles in recent years. There is little doubt this has been driven in large part by the shift in research funding strategy by the Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences under Grover Whitehurst's lead, described…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Researchers, Quasiexperimental Design, Educational Trends
National Council of Teachers of English, 2016
Equity can be described as the elimination of privilege, oppression, disparities, and disadvantage that historically have excluded those belonging to particular groups. This is the first and overarching of several research policy briefs around issues of equity. When taken as a whole, these briefs will create a space and open a dialogue around the…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Student Diversity
Henderson, Janelle W.; Warren, Katherine; Whitmore, Kathryn F.; Flint, Amy Seely; Laman, Tasha Tropp; Jaggers, Wanda – Reading Teacher, 2020
Classroom libraries are an important component of elementary classrooms. These collections support readers' literate identities, their motivation to read, and their access to texts that reflect a world outside of the classroom. Yet, many classrooms lack texts that mirror the racial, cultural, and linguistic diversity of students and their lived…
Descriptors: Libraries, Instructional Materials, Diversity, Elementary School Teachers
Whitmore Schanzenbach, Diane – National Education Policy Center, 2011
"Class Size: What Research Says and What It Means for State Policy" argues that increasing average class size by one student will save about 2% of total education spending with negligible impact on academic achievement. It justifies this conclusion on the basis that Class-Size Reduction (CSR) is not particularly effective and is not as…
Descriptors: Class Size, State Regulation, State Standards, Cost Effectiveness
Rhee, Marsha W.; McKeliver, Lewis; Whitmore, Kamauri – Journal of Applied Learning in Higher Education, 2014
This undergraduate research is part of a new student-mentorship initiative on campus, Success Through Academic Research (STAR), sponsored by the Metropolitan College. Utilizing community-based applied action research, researchers developed a case study on secondary classroom technology usage in IPRC-Kigali, Rwanda, East Africa and in West…
Descriptors: Mentors, Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Student Research
DiGirolamo, Ann M.; Desai, Dimple; Farmer, Deana; McLaren, Susan; Whitmore, Ani; McKay, Danté; Fitzgerald, Layla; Pearson, Stephanie; McGiboney, Garry – School Psychology Review, 2021
Nationally, school-based mental health (SBMH) is seen as an avenue to increase access to children's mental health services and promote mental health awareness. The current article describes the implementation of a statewide SBMH program focusing on partnerships between community-based providers and local school systems, with providers embedded…
Descriptors: Mental Health Programs, School Community Programs, Integrated Services, Access to Health Care
Holland, Laura Emerson Whitmore – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to explore the educational experiences of community college Hispanic students in Maryland. The researcher interviewed students to determine what programs and services existed in their high school and college environments that assisted them in the transition from secondary education to higher education. Furthermore,…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Community Colleges, Educational Experience, Researchers
Pietilainen, Ville – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2012
The article focuses on the realisation of participatory evaluation (PE) in national educational evaluation activity. The realisation of PE is examined by adapting the Daigneault and Jacob model (2009; originally Cousins & Whitmore, 1998) to five national-level educational evaluations carried out in Finland. According to the chosen frame of…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Participation, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries
Dynarski, Susan; Hyman, Joshua; Schanzenbach, Diane Whitmore – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2013
This paper examines the effect of early childhood investments on college enrollment and degree completion. We used the random assignment in Project STAR (the Tennessee Student/Teacher Achievement Ratio experiment) to estimate the effect of smaller classes in primary school on college entry, college choice, and degree completion. We improve on…
Descriptors: Enrollment, Colleges, Predictor Variables, Early Childhood Education
Cousins, J. Bradley; Whitmore, Elizabeth; Shulha, Lyn – American Journal of Evaluation, 2013
In this article, we critique two recent theoretical developments about collaborative inquiry in evaluation--using logic models as a means to understand theory, and efforts to compartmentalize versions of collaborative inquiry into discrete genres--as a basis for considering future direction for the field. We argue that collaborative inquiry in…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Models, Educational Principles, Inquiry
Shulha, Lyn M.; Whitmore, Elizabeth; Cousins, J. Bradley; Gilbert, Nathalie; al Hudib, Hind – American Journal of Evaluation, 2016
This article introduces a set of evidence-based principles to guide evaluation practice in contexts where evaluation knowledge is collaboratively produced by evaluators and stakeholders. The data from this study evolved in four phases: two pilot phases exploring the desirability of developing a set of principles; an online questionnaire survey…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Evaluators, Stakeholders, Pilot Projects
Cadbury, Heather; Whitmore, Michelle – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2010
The article explores the changes in care over the years for people with a learning disability by focusing on the life story of one individual, Patricia Collen, who spent many years within an institution. Her story shows that it is possible for people with a learning disability to live a full and active life, either in the community or within an…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Residential Institutions, Residential Care
Whitmore, Diane Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Approximately 50% of teachers leave the profession within five years. A disproportionate number of those who leave are secondary mathematics teachers. Teacher retirements, policy changes, teacher turnover, and teacher requirements contribute to the mass departure from the teaching profession. This phenomenological qualitative study examined…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Mentors, Teacher Persistence, Metropolitan Areas